The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
October 22, 1908

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EVERYBODY 1 10 PAGES 1 EVERYBODY in DAnpQ READS IT. j NEEDS IT. I LAST EDITION. IIASLITTLECHOICE From Railroad Standpoint Lit tle Preference at Election. President Ripley of the Santa Fe on National Politics. INTERESTED Ix STATES The Legislatures That Feared the Most. Are Annual Meeting of Stockholders Brings No Changes. "From a railroad standpoint there is but little preference in the national election this fall." said B. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe road, who is in Topeka to day attending the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Santa Fe, in an interview this afternoon. "Personally we all have our preferences." continued Mr. Ripley, "but the railroads are fear ing little from national legislation. And we don't want to be dragged into any political controversy, nor do I want to President E. P. Ripley, Who talk politics. No matter which way the national election goes, it will take bus iness conditions just so long to adjust themselves. "It is the state legislatures that we fear most. But regarding hostile leg islations from these sources the rail roads are optimistic. Probably they have done us all the damage they can. The two cent fare was an outrage on the railroads and this will probably In time be changed. Already the Ar kansas courts have knocked out two cent rate and in every other state the rate is still to be passed upon by the courts as to its validity. I would hate to think that It had come to stay in Kansas or in any other state. "As to the business outlook at the present time, the Santa Fe Is improv ing. We are not hauling the volume or business that we did a year ago, but conditions are now much better than six months ago. Our loss in business is in the traffic usually handled from the east. Business in the west is as good as ever. The west scarcely knew what the recent panic was. The entire coun try, however, is gradually recovering. "At the present time the railways are unable to secure funds to carry on new improvements on account of the shaken confidence in the money mar ket. Bankers won't handle railway bonds. We are unable to borrow money as the bankers are afraid to lend It. "As far as the Santa Fe Is concerned '.we will attempt no new improvements Vluring the coming year. We already have a large amount of new work un der execution and we will carry these projects through. Our double-tracking and the numerous other big pieces of construction Which we have started will be pushed to completion. "We will have to feel our way care fully and keep operating expenses to a minimum. Where reductions can be made, we are compelled to retrench, but we will not hesitate to make ex penditures where needed. At any rate we will spare no expense in keeping the Santa Fe end its properties up to their present efficient standard." President Ripley arrived in Topeka this morning fromKansas City on a Fpeclal train. In company with J. W. Kendrlck, second vice president of he Santa Fe. who is also here, he left at 8 o'clock this afternoon for an exten sive inspection trip of the Texas lines which he makes annually at this time. He will stop off at Arkansas City and other division points. The Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Santa Fe stockholders, who number 23,000, was held in the office of General Manager J. E. Hurley at noon today. But a few of i he stockholders were present, most of the stock being voted by rroxy. And there was little business transacted outside of a routine nature. The meeting required but about twenty minutes. The chief business transacted at the meeting was the re-election of four di rectors to succeed themselves. The directors re-elected were: E. J. Ber- wind. New York. N. Y., A. J. McCul lnnirh of Vermont. A. O. Jnhpi nf Wichita and Henry C. Frick of New York, N. Y. The Independent auditing firm of Price. Waterhouse Co. of New York city were elected Independent auditors of tne Santa jre. The out of town officials who attend ed the meeting were: E. P. Riplev. president; J. W. Kendrlck. second vice president: George T. Nicholson, third vice president: W. B. Storey, chief en gineer, and W. E. Hodges, general purchasing agent. THUKSDAY EVENING. KERN'S SOX IS VERY LOW. Will Xot Re-enter Campaigu Until Xext Week. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22. John W Kern, the Democratic vice presi dential nominee, whose campaign tour in New York and Ohio was interrupt ed yesterday at Syracuse, N. Y.. by news of the serious illness of his 8-year-old son, John W. Kern. jr.. reach ed Indianapolis this morning. He found the boy in a critical con dition and there is slight probability that Mr. Kern will resume his cam paign duties before next week, when a number of speeches have been ar ranged for him in Indiana. He intends, if possible, to fill those engagements. TRAIN 13 FEET LONG. Duchess Victoria Gorgeously Attired for Her Wedding. Berlin Oct. 22. Duchess Alexandria Victoria' of Schleswig-Holstein. daugh ter of Prince Frederick. Duke of Schleswig-Holsteln. was married in the chapel of the imperial palace at 5 o'clock this afternoon to Prince August William of Prussia, fourth so nof Em peror William. The ceremony was witnessed by the members of the imperial family and 50 princes and princesses of the minor German royal household. The chan cellor of the empire. Prince von Bue low, as well as the other high state functionaries, the members of the dip- Is In Topeka Today. lomatlc corps including Dr. Hill, the American ambassador and the mem bers of the embassy staffs with their wives together with about 800 guests also were present. The civil ceremony was held in the private apartment of the palace, after which the empress placed the Hohenzollern crown upon the head of the foreign princess. The royal party then marched in procession to the chapel. The bride was clad In a white silk dress trimmed with lace and her train which was richly embroidered with silver and 13 feet long, was borne uy iour pages. Tne simple ceremony of the Lutheran state church was per formed by Dr. Dryander, the court preacher, assisted by several minor ec clesiastics. As the rings were exchanged the ar tillery in the palace square began firing a salute, and the crashing sounds were interrupted by the melodious chiming of the church bells. The emperor and the empress kissed the bridal couple. After the ceremony the royal party marched to the white hall of the palace and held a reception to some 2,000 invit ed guests. PICKING OUT FARMS. Buildings Are Put on Wheels Moved to New Town. and Dallas, S. D., Oct. 22. The drawing for farms in the great Tripp county territory was finished last night. This morning Judge Whitten and his clerks began the work of assorting the 108,000 unlucky applications and com paring them with those which drew prizes in order to detect any appli cants who had registered twice. If any are found among the prize win ners they will be barred from filing. Last night and today the work of moving the "rush" buildings which have lined Main street for the past three weeks to the new townsltes in Tripp county made a unique spectacle. The buildings are on wheels and eight nurses were nucned to each and a march over the prairie began, each owner intent upon securing the best location in the town of his choice. It is estimated that nartlolnaUnn In the lottery cost the landseekers not less man 2, 000, 000. BOMB IS EXPLODED. Another Attempt to Wreck New Vork Tenement. New York. Oct. 22. Another hnmh w-as exploded last night in an East side tenement district which has been guarded by police for weeks to pre vent just such outrages. The explo sive was placed in the hallway of a house on East Eleventh street, occu pied by 18 families, and owned by Pasquale Discard!, who h hun ceiving Black Hand warnings for near- J car. TV,, v. inn uuino was weak, hut It was noisy enough to wake up the block. The stairs were blown down from the first to the second floors, windows were shattered and plastering was cracked from the cellar to the roof. Bombs ay,i been exploded In three other buildings in the same block after the owner naa Deen ordered to pay black' mail on penalty of death. USES BIG STICK. President Writes a Long Letter to Senator Knox. Discusses Atlitnde cf Bryan and Gcmpers. ASKS SOME QUEST10XS Know if Democratie Leader En dorses Gompers' Position. Defends Own Right to Take Part in Campaign. Washington, Oct. 22. Hamnulm literature has been enriched by a let ter rrom President Roosevelt ad dressed to Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, in which Mr. Roosevelt pays his respects to Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor. Speaking at Philadelphia on Tuesday, Senator Knox took Issue with Mr. Gompers on the question of the atti tude of organized labor In the present campaign and the president's letter of today la In support of Mr. Knox's views. Mr. Roosevelt says: My Dear Senator Knox: In your admirable speech of yesterday you speak of the action of Mr. Bryan and certain gentlemen, claiming to be the special representatives of organ ized labor, foremost among them Mr. Gompers, to secure the support of la boring men for Mr. Bryan on consid eration of his agreement to perform certain acts nominally in the Interest of organized labor, which would be really wholly ineffective or else of widespread Injury, not only to organ ized labor, but to all decent citizens throughout the country. You have a peculiar right to speak on labor ques tions; for it was you who, as attor ney general first actively Invoked the great power of the federal government on behalf of the rights of labor when for the first time in the history of the government you. speaking for the department of justice, intervened In a private lawsuit, which had gone against a locomotive fireman who had lost an arm In coupling cars, and by your intervention secured from the supreme court a construction of the safety appliance act which made the vital remedial statute, and therefore has secured to hundreds of crippled employes compensation which they would not otherwise have obtained. The daily papers of October 13 con tain an open letter from Samuel Gom pers, president of the American Fed eration of Labor, appealing to work- Ingmen to vote for Mr. Bryan. In that letter are certain definite statements which interest the Ameri can public as much as those to whom Mr. Gompers makes his appeal. These statements warrant all you nave saia in your speech, ana they would warrant you in asking Mr. Bryan to say publicly whether Mr. Gompers states correctly the attitude of his party and himself on a subject that Is of vital concern to every citi zen. Including every business man, as well as every farmer and every la borer who looks to the courts for the protection of his rights. Mr. Gompers. In his letter, asserts that the judiciary of this country Is destroying democratic government and substituting therefore an irresponsible and corrupt power, and he further makes clear that the means by which he believes this alleged despotism has been set up In the place of Democracy is by the process of injunction In the courts of equity. Mr. Gompers. in his letter, states that his appeal to the Republican con vention at Chicago for remedy against the Injunction was denied, and he then goes on to state not only that the Democratic party promised a remedy. but promised him the particular rem edy that ho had already asked of con gress. His words are: "Labor's representatives then went to the Democratic party. That party made labor contentions its own. It pledged its candidates for every office to those remedies whicn laDor naa ai ready submitted to congress." The last sentence in this quotation indicates very definitely the specific remedies to which Mr. Gompers un derstands Mr. Bryan's party has Dledeed itself. His statement now makes perfectly clear an important plank in the Bryanite platform, which has here tofore seemed puzzling to a vast num ber of earnest minded thinking peo nle. who are sincerely interested in the steady advance and legitimate as pirations of labor, and who carefully read both platforms to know precisely what hopes each hold out for the im provement of the conditions of wage earners. That Dlank reads as follows: "Questions of Judicial practice have arisen, especially in connection with industrial disputes. We deem tnat tne parties to all Judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid Impar tiality, and that Injunctions should not be Issued In any cases In which In junctions would not issue lr no indus trial disputes were invoivtra. Remedy rails. This is the plank that promises the "remedy against injunction, wnicn air. Oomners asked of Mr. Bryan's party. In actual fact. It means absolutely nothing: no change of the law could be based on It: no man without inside knowledge could foretell what Its mean ing would turn out to be, for no man could foretell how any Judge would de cide In any given case, as the plan ap parently leaves each Judge free to say when he Issues an injunction in a labor case whether or not it Is a case in which an injunction would issue if la bor were not Involved. Yet this plank is apparently perfectly clear to Mr. Gompers, and in his letter to his fol lowers he indicates beyond question Just what he understands it to mean. He asserts that he has had requisite inside knowledge. His statement that Mr. Bryan's party (for it was Mr. Bryan who dictated the platform) pledged Itself "to those remedies which labor had already submitted to con gress", is a perfectly clear and definite statement. The "remedies" which Mr. Gompers has already submitted to con gress are matters of record, and the identification of his "remedies" against injunction in labor disputes is easy and certain. This "remedy is embodied in house bill No. 74 of the session of the (Continued on Page Three.) TOPEKA, KANSAS, OCTOBEK IT IS COLDER TODAY. Mercury on Oro Down Grade and Freeze la Promised. The temperature has been falling since 7 o'clock last night and if in dications count for anything will con tinue, on its downward course until the minimum for the season is reached before daylight Friday morning. The forecast Indicates a killing frost for tonight and a temperature several degrees below freezing. Today has been the coldest so far this fall, though on the 12th of the month the mercury dropped below he freezing point. This was during the night and the temperature rose rapidly alter the sun came up in the morning. The contrary has been the case today and the temperature has fallen steadily all day, and the 12 mile an hour wind which has pre vailed from the north is heavily laden with moisture ana cnunng. The precipitation tor the past 24 hours has amounted to .82 of an Inch, the greater part of which fell during the late hours of the afternoon, though light drizzle continued until 11:30 last night. The total precipitation since the rain period set in three days ago has amounted to an Inch and .72 hundredths, plenty to give the ground good soaking. The following are the temperatures since 7 o'clock this morning: 7 o'clock .47 II "O'clock 44 8 o'clock 45112 o'clock 43 9 o'clock. .44 1 o'clock 43 10 o'clock 441 2 o'clock 42 ESTRANGED HIS WIFE. Charge That Dr-. 51. B. Hartman Brings Against E. L. Morse. Kansas City, Oct. 22. A $100,000 alienation suit has been brought In the circuit court by Milo E. Hartman, a young physician at 902 Main street against E. L. Morse of Excelslr Springs. Dr. Hartman asserts in his petition that Colonel Morse alienated the affec tions of his wife. He asks for $75,000 actual damages and $25,000 punitive damages. Dr. Hartman is a graduate of the University of Kansas and is iv years old. Mrs. Hartman is the daugh ter of James M. Burrus. a solicitor or insurance. She has a boy 3 years old. Dr. Hartman went to Excelsior Springs with his. wife about eight months ago. His wife established a manicure and hair dressing parlor in the Morse block. After they had been in Excelsior Springs about six months they left there. It was known by Ex celsior Springs residents that Dr. Hart man did not feel kindly toward Morse, but It was believed that it was be cause of a rental matter, which result ed In a reuest by Morse that the Hart- mans evacuate. Mrs. Hartman is a woman of 25 years. Mr. Morse said when told, of the suit: "I befriended Mrs. Hartman several times, chiefly at the request of my wife. Once It was for arrears in rent. Anotn- er time I paid for 'a drying machine. The charges are, of course, untrue and ahnurd." w When the Hartrrrans left Excelsior Springs it was supposed they went to Kansas City or Independence, where Mrs. Hartman formerly lived. The domestic troubles or the iiarc mans nrst Decame puduc ucn sue broueht a suit for divorce July 20. this year. She asserted in her petition inai he was cruel and abused her. She also said that he did not properly support her and their child and that she was compelled to open a hairaressing esiaD- llshment in tne Aitman Duimins. Tn the alienation petition filed. Dr. Hartman says they were married De cember 24, 1901, and lived together un til December 20, 19U7. At mat ume, j-r, Hartman says, Morse caused Mrs urtmin to leave her home. The pe- tiHnn Mian asserts that Morse induced Mrs. Hartman to sue ner nusoana iur rl f vnrce. Tt isn't the money I'm after" Dr. Hartman said. "I' would rather have my home back than all the money in the world. And I have tried to get her to come back in order that a home might be provided for our child. I be lieve she would have come If it had not been for the influence of Morse, who kept her away irom me. "Service will be made on Mr. Morse as soon as possible and the taking of depositions will begin at once." Dr. Hartman said he did not know where his wife was staying now. "I haven't any idea." he declared. I suppose Mr. Morse knows much better than L" PLENTY OF GAS. Montgomery Inspector Reports Abundant Supply. In a letter to the State Journal the Montgomery county gaa Inspector, Sealy L. Brown, states that during the past ten days he has tested 62 gas we-lls in his county, the property of the Kansas Natural Gas company, the company which furnishes gas to the local company, and that their aggre gate volume was 397,379.920 cubic feet per day. The Kansas Natural have 156 other good gas wells in this field and the inspector will be kept busy testing them until some time in December, when he makes his re port In full for the county. The Montgomery county gas In spector also states that the new pumping station of the Kansas Nat ural at Graham Corners, in that county, will be completed In a few dan and nlaced in commission. It Is probably the largest compressor station In the world and will go a long ways toward keeping the gas pressure up to the notch in Topeka this winter. The company has an other station at Petrolia. An idea of the resources of the Montgomery county gas field may be gained from the gas inspector's state ment that a few days ago a 83.500.000 foot gas well was brought in in that field. This is the largest gas well in the mideontinent field. It was thought that the limit in the big wells had been reached three years ago when a 30,000.000 well was drilled in this same county. The famous burn ing gasser at Caney had less than 30, 000,000 flow under actual test. Quarantine Is Raised. San Francisco, Cal., Oct, 22. By di rection of the surgeon-general of the marine hospital service, the quarantine that has been maimainea in an pons against vessels leaving San Francisco harbor, has been completely removed and today the ocean-going craft will be able for the first time in 14 months to come and go without use of rat guards, dock fenders and periodical fu mlgations. 22, 1908. BRIGHT FOP, BRYAN That Is the Word That Goes Up From Tammany Hall. Charles F. Murphy Says No Can rass lias Been Made. NEXT WEEK'S MEETING Available Seats ""at Madison Square Already Taken. Arrangements Being Made for Overflow Meetings. New York, Oct. 22. With the heavy artillery of both political parties train ed on New York state much Interest is being centered in the vote today that Tammany Hall may roll up in this city. Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany said today that no canvass had been made of the city and that he did not know whether any figures would be an nounced later or not. Mr. Murphy said: "Everything looks bright for Bryan and Mr. Chanler. I should say that Bryan and Chanler would get about the same vote in the state. I "have caused no canvass to be made of the city yet, and can't say whether I will make any estimates on the election this year." Mr. Bryan's meeting in the city next Tuesday night when he will speak at Madison Square Garden is to be made the- occasion of a Democratic rally In every assembly district in New York. Not only has Tammany Hall arranged for' overflow meetings at the garden, but there will be mass meetings in Cooper Union, Hamilton Fish park and in scores of halls throughout the city. The demands for tickets to Madison Square Garden meeting quickly ex hausted the supply and stands will be erected outside the amphitheater for overflow assemblages. Besides Mr. Bryan, Governor Hoke Smith of Geor gia, Congressman Henry D. Clayton of Alabama and Former Congressman John J. Lentz of Ohio, will address the meeting. M'FARLAND TOO FAST. The Western Light Weight Fighter Earned Decision Over Cross. New York. Oct. 22. Out of the west last night came Packey McFar land, a light weight fignter, and for five rounds of a six round bout, he hammered Leach Cross, the "pride of the Ghetto" with such precision as to earn a decided victory. At the same time he set in the background the asnirationsof Cross and enhanced his own chances for a mill with Bat tling Nelson for the light weight championship of the -world. Both boys were weighed in at 133 pounds. McFarland at the sound of the gong was fighting madly for an early victory. Cross punched back fur iously and during the first two min utes it was hard to tell upon whom the greater number of blows landed Then both boys settled down to more scientific methods. At this kind of fighting McFarland was easily the better and held his advantage clever ly. In the third round McFarland stepped Inside a left swing and sent a crushing right to Cross" jaw. The easterner went down for the count of six when he arpse he was weak and held on to the end of the round. In the fourth McFarland again went af ter his man, but Cross here met him with a great show of resistance again and in this round alone managed to have a shade the better of the argu ment. In the fifth Cross, with left and right drew blood in a stream from McFarland's nose but the westerner would not be denied, and kept hammering away in quest of vic tory. In the final round Cross took a lot of punishment and was staggering groggily about the ring when the bell rang. HEARST HAS MORE. Promises to Give Oat Sensational Let ters Saturday NiglJ.. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22. Addi tional Standard Oil letters of more im portance than any thus far read are to be made public at the Independence party meeting in New York Saturday night, according to a statement made by W. R. Hearst in an interview here last night. He declared they are bet- ter than any thus far given publicity and that he had saved them for the finish of the campaign. Mr. Hearst denied a story recently published that he had letters from Mr, Archbold to Senators Aldrich and Penrose. "The fact Is," said Mr. Hearst, "X have no letters from Aid rich, not one. I have a letter written by Senator Penrose to Archbold in which he speaks about an appointment with Senator Aldrich but this is the only letter I have in which Aldrlch's name is mentioned. It is not strange that I have no letters from Archbold to Aldrich or from Aldrich to Arch bold. There was no necessity for their writing to each other. Aldrich. as understand, is one of the head men of the Standard Oil and not a mere underling. That would account for absence of letters." THEY'LL WALK 50 MILES Officers WU1 Go the Riding Test One Better. Chleaeo. Oct. 22. Convinced that 50 miles of walking is a better test of physical endurance than 90 miles of riding, either of which under the army regulations is required to be taken yearly. Majors ts. a. ttay ana i. u, Keliher. with a detachment of soldiers, today started from Fort Sheridan for a three days' hike. The first day the officers will march ?n miles, the second 16.. and the third 14. A report of the march will later be made to the department or tne lakes. Weather Indications. Chicago. Oct. 22. Forecast for Kansas:. Partly cloudy and colder to night with klling frosts; Friday fair and warmer. THURSDAY EVENING. MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE. Verdict of the Jury in the Case of William Hill. Independence. Kan., Oct. 22. The Jury in the case of William Hill, charged with the murder of David Alexander, near Coffeyville, August 7, brought in a verdict last night of guilty of manslaughter In the first degree. Hill shot Alexander while the latter was in a carriage with his. Hill's wife. The Hills had been separated and Alexander was paying attention to Hill's wife. Hill was charged with murder in the first degree. LIKE CLOUDBURST Oklahoma Suffering From a Dis astrous Flood. Streams .Out cf Banks and Great Damage to Crops. Oklahoma City, Ok., Oct. 22. Serious floods threaten portions of central and notnern Oklahoma, the result of a steady down pour of rain that has pre vailed for the past three days and still continues. In some portions the rain fall has amounted almost to the pro portions of a cloudburst. Numerous reports of loss of life, made yesterday. remain unconfirmed and are believed to be. without foundation. No single re port of loss of life has been verified. The heavy rainfall began Monday morning and at places has fallen in cessantly since then. It has caused the Canadian and Arkansas rivers, two of the largest streams in the state to ov erflow their banks, doing much dam age to farm lands, causing washouts on the railroad and in some instances threatening small towns. At Tulsa and vicinity the Arkansas had risen 10 feet in the 24 hours ended this morning and was then still coming up. This brought the stream to with in three feet of the highest stage reached in the flood last spring. Many farms around Tulsa were flooded and farmers and their families were com pelled to move out. The town of West Tulsa is threatened with being inunda ted. In the vicinity of Perry last night all streams rose suddenly and hundreds of acres of crops were flooded. A third of the town of Pawnee with 1.500 inhabitants was covered last night with six feet of water. In the valley of the Canadian, the valleys for several miles between Shawnee and McLoud are inundated and Beveral parts of the Rock Island, Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Santa Fe tracks have been washed out. In many directions telegraph service is interrupted and details are lacking. Flood at Muskogee. Muskogee, Ok.. Oct. 22. The heaviest rainfall experienced in this section in many years began at midnight last night and continued today. The Arkan sas and Grand rivers are rising. The lowlands of Muskogee are flooded and in some sections residents can not leave their homes without the aid of boats. Much damage to matured corn has re sulted. Workmen Shut Off. El Reno, Ok., Oct. 22. Two hundred workmen were unable to reach their work in the Rock Island railroad shops and the new yards today and the night crew were compelled to go to their homes owing to high water from Four Mile creek, filling the lowlands between the city and the yards. The embank ment at the new yards prevented the water from reaching the Canadian river and has flooded out residents in the northwest portion of the town, causing the ice plant, an iron foundry and oth er industries to suspend. Oil Fields Crippled. Tulsa. Okla., Oct. 22. Flood con ditions in this vicinity are rapidly growing worse. The Arkansas river is rising a foot an hour. Bird creek is 20 inches above the high water mark of last spring, the toll house Is flooded, the bridge approaches are inundated and the lowlands for a mile back are flooded. A heavy rainfall between Tulsa and Bartlesville last night, crippled oil field operations and the pumping stations or the Prairie Oil and Gas company are out of com mission. All trains are delayed and wagon traffic in the country is paralyzed. The temperature is fall ing. BLUE RIBBON WEARERS. Tlilrty-flve Hundred of Them Expected in Denver. Denver. Oct. 22. Meetings of the executive committee, official board and organizers of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union were held today, completing preparations ror tne thirty-fifth annual convention of the organization which opens tomorrow morning in the Denver city audi torium. The president, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Me., to whom is given the credit of success fully carrying the union through the crisis following the death of its foun der, Frances Willard, attended all pre liminary meetings today. The union is divided into sections, the educational, the evangelistic, the social, the legal, etc., and these have also divisions, making in all about 40 departments of work. The heads of these departments or the chairman of each committee conducting them re viewed at the institute which was held in the First Baptist church today. Special attention has been given during the last year, to the organiza tion of the loyal temperance legion, the children's branch of the union, and the most interesting reports pre sented at the institute were those re lating to this department. Miss Anna Gordon of Boston, who was associated for 20 years with Frances Willard and who has had general charge of the W. C. T. U. work among the children of the country, in speaking of methods said she thought the campaigning which had been most effective in bringing about the recent wide sweep of prohibition through the country was the holding of mass meetings, with torchlight pro cessions and brass bands, followed by hundreds of children singing and bearing banners. Three thousand five hundred visit ors, mostly from this and adjoining states, are expected tonight to attend the "convention' In addition to the ac credited delegates who numebr 700. TWO CENTBL SAVED I00 LIVES Heroic Actions of American Officers in Philippines. A Typhoon Destroys the Tillage of Aparrl. FOUGHT IN BREAKERS Thriliine: Rescues by the Braye Young Soldiers. Five Hundred Natives Die in the Storm. Manila, Oct. 22. Additional details of the damage wrought In the Sagayan valley by the typhoon of October JJ, In dicate that loss of life in the disaster will reach 600. At Aparrl, where thrilling rescue of a hundred natives was effected through the heroism of Lieutenant Robert Clark. Lieutenant Treadway and Postmaster Foss, the survivors say that 300 residents of the submerged fishing village, which Is lo cated some distance below Aparrl, were swept away and drowned. The three Americans, aided by one Filipino volunteer, were informed of the danger that threatened the village and managed to reach it by boat. Ap proaching the shore in a series of short rushes between breakers that threat ened at any moment to swamp their frail craft the rescuers found scores of natives clinging to the poles of their wrecked habitations. Lieutenants Clark and Treadway, carrying lines from the boat, fought their way through the breakers and swimming from house to house in the flood water, saved the lives of about 100 men, women .and children. So thorough was their work that all but six of those living when the boat reached the village were saved. The half dozen unfortunates In question were swept away by the force of the water while the Americans were striv ing to reach them. More than 50 bod ies were recovered in this locality. It is reported that many were drown ed at Ilagan and that the town was almost entirely destroyed. It is feared that the storm and the resulting flood has seriously damaged the tobacco crop of the islands. The principal supply and the best quality of pipe tobacco 1 grown in the Cagayan district, where two plantations report serious damage. Up to the present time there has been no connection established with other sections where the condition of the crop is of more importance. MAKE 70 MILES AN HOUR Auto Race Cars Take Preliminary Practice on Vanderbilt Track. New York, Oct. 22. Every one of the 17 cars expected to face the starter at daybreak of Saturday for the fourth running of the Vanderbilt cup race was taken over the 23.45 miles of the circuit this morning for final practice. Al though no attempts were made by any of the prospective contestants to ap proximate racing speed for any consid erable distance, a number let out to the notch coming down the eight mile straight away -of the Jericho turnpike from Woodbury to Westbury and In this stretch repeatedly whizzed by at better than 70 miles an hour. It Is over this portion of the course that most of the speeding will be .done Saturday as over the cement surface of the motor parkway part of the circuit the driver" have discovered fast time to be fatal to tires. In this respect the motor parkway has proved a great disappointment. In the event of half a million people Jour neying to Long Island to witness this event, as was the case with the last Vanderbilt cup race, two years ago, however, the fenced-in condition of the parkway will more than offet whatever disadvantages the unyielding quality of Its surface offers. Owing to the inade quacy of the force of deputy sheriffs engaged to police the 1906 race, the course was invaded for almost Its en tire length by a surging crowd through which the racers had almost to plough their way. This year the course will be guarded by 600 members of the Irish volunteers regiment armed with rifles in addition to the 200 deputy sheriffs. This year the distance to be covered will be 258 mile as against 297 in 1906, 283 in 19Q5, and 284 in 1004. CLEVELAND IS VOTING. People WIU Settle the Three Fare Question. Cent Cleveland, O.. Oct. 22. The citizens of Cleveland are today voting under the state Initiative and referendum law to decide whether the franchise of the Cleveland Railway company shall remain In the city ordinances or be stricken out. Upon the outcome of the vote rests to a large extent the fate of three cent street railway fare In this city, but more particularly whether the railway property Is to re- main under lease to the Municipal.' Traction company, the operating com pany, which is running the lines upon a three cent basis. SHOT HER DESPOILER. Jennie Dempsey Uses Revolver Young Greek. Chicago, Oct 22. Jennie Dempsey. 18 years old, today shot and probably fatalb- wounded Joseph Georgeopolls. The young woman hysterically de clared when arrested that her life had been wrecked by the perfidy of Georgeopolls. Miss Dempsey enteral the fruit store where the young Greek was em ployed. She drew a revolver which had been concealed In her waist and fired three shots at her erstwhile lover. One -bullet entered his groin, inflicting a wound from which it Is said he caa not recover.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1903. 3 RAILR0AD NEWS. Santa Fe.Hakes a Fast Ban Orer New Tracks. Special Train Between Welling ton and Woodward. IN REMARKABLE TIME One Hundred and Forty-FiTe Mile in 270 Minutes. Other Items of Interest in Bail way Circles. Wellington. Kan., Oct. 22. That the new steel of the Panhandle between Wellington and Woodward is conducive of fast running,' was shown Friday night and Saturday morning by the ex cellent time a special train made be tween the two points. It left Welling ton Friday night at 11:45, two hours and 25 minutes behind No. 201. the reg ular train, and at 3:55 Saturday morn ing had overtaken it in the Woodward yards, arriving only five minutes behind Notwithstanding the regular train, which left Wellington at 9 o'clock, had 61 miles the start of the extra, it went on the block at Quinlan with it. The special train was in charge of Conduc tor Kramer, with Engineer S. H. Bar rier and Fireman Stewart in the cab. It was Aneine No. 118. c T,. Tallmadtre. president of the Texas Land company, with headquar ters In Kansas City, chartered the train at Newton, having come out of Kansas City, on No. land missed the Panhan dle connection there, xne special con sisted of an-enfne and two cars. tTrrere was Itttie of moment between Newton and Wellington, but things De gah to pick"-up -when the special reach ed! here. The change of engines was made in four and one-half minutes and the eight miles to Mayfleld covered in 13 mir.utes. 'Thowlng her over" Engineer Barner gave the 118 her head and she went plowing along, virtually only hitting the high places. Night Chief Dispatcher Stark had cleared the way and every thing sat up and took notice, even the station agents staying awake to see the flyer go through. The pace set between Wellington and Mayfleld was maintained all the way to Woodward, the usual stops for water alone delaying the special s night There was no incident worthy of mo ment and, fortunately, no accident to relate on the fast flying Journey, the 145 miles being covered in 4 hours ana 30 minutes some running. The fastest run was he.tween Curtis and Moreland Ok., a distance of 4 miles, which Engl ner Barner made the 118 step In five minutes. The special train cost Mr. Tallmadge about $300, but as he owns a million acres of land in Texas and was on a deal for several thousand acres, which deal had to be closed Saturday, the 30'J won't be missed. Besides that, it gave the Santa Fe a chance to snow wnat u can do on the Panhandle division when It comes to greyhounding. TO IMPROVE TKACK On Missouri Pacific Between Pueblo and Kansas City. Ottawa. Kan.. Oct. 22. The Mis souri Pacific is about to establish head quarters here for the track improve ments now in progress. The entire roadbed, from Kansas City to Denver and Pueblo, is to be put in high class condition as rapidly as men can work. A gang of men is now working be tween this city and Osawatomle, rais ing the track, surfacing, placing new tis. etc. Gangs are worked in twenty mile sections. Advertisements have been placarded here asking for men on the xtra gang, offering $1.35 a day. For the subdivision ten miles each way from Ottawa the headquarters will be in this city. TRACKSIDE 11UE DAMAGES. Southern Illinois Ronds Must Reim burse Farmers. Herrln, 111.. Oct. 22. Railroad com panies throughout southern Illinois will have to pay thousands of dollars to farmers for damage done to orchards and hay fields which have been fired by passing trains and burn ed over during the present drouth. Rights of way along every line have been swept by flames, and thousands of rods of fence made into ashes. Davis Arraigned for Murder. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 22. Charles E. Da via was arraigned here today in the district court, charged with murder in the first degree in connection with the sensational death of Dr. Frederick Rus. tin last month. Davis, who appeared In court accompanied only by his at torney pleaded not guilty and was re leased on bail of $10,000 which was fur nished by his brothers. The trial will occur In November. Bnelow Breaks Ills Ankle. Chicago, Oct. 22. A dispatch to the Tribune from Los Angeles, Cal., says: Fred Buelow. the Cleveland catcher, who is to play with Washington next jrear. yesterday broke his ankle while sliding to base. HaWiti Constipation J lay oepcnruinently overcome hy proper personal efforts vatMKe ass$tance oftheon? truly .beneficial laxative remedy, by rup of figs an J B'wW f 'i In?1 es 5toJorm refeJar ha bag daily so that assistance To na ture may te gradually aispenseU"ilK vhen ho longer needed astiveUstof rernedics,whcn required, are To assist tuire ara hot U ftupplartttne tiatw. d Junctions, vhich must depend ultt tatefy upon prppey rumwslWht, proper ejJovUW right living generally. I get as beneficial effects, always uy the genuine manufactured by tl California Fig Syrup Co. only SOLO BALL. LEADING DRUCC1STS f onfy. rr r.ce 50 Bottle BEN HUa IN TOPEKA. Will Be Given in All Its Glory Next Week. "Ben Hur" In many respects is the most remarkable drama of the age. It appeals not only to theatergoers but to all classes of men and women those of the church and those who are not for it has all the qualities which call the religio.usly inclined, as well as all the dramatic fire and ro mance which attract the worldly. It is because of this power of appealing to all people that "Ben Hur" has be come the greatest success of the past fifty years, and because of this it has drawn more money than any drama ever staged. Pageantry and pomp there are for the lovers of those things; religious fervor and reverence for huly things for the churchly; excitement and ad venture, romance and lovers, for the regular patron of the theater, and combining all these things into one harmonious whole is the story of Ben Hur's devotion to the cause of right eousness, his love of truth and honor, and his manly fight to maintain his position before the world. The hatred which springs up between Ben Hur 4 f The Mcetinjr of Ainrah and th end Messaia, the man he has be friended, is a magnificent passion and grandly is that hatred requited in the famous chariot race at the circus of Antioch, wherein Ben Hur defeats and overwhelms his Roman enemy, casting him off from love, honor and riches. Klaw Erlanger have given "Ben Hur" an even more splendid setting this year than before, magnificent as have been the former productions of the drama, and this mammoth equip ment will be used in the staging of the drama at the Grand opera house next Thursday evening; also on Friday and Saturday evening and at the matinee scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Theatergoers should bear in mind that the curtain on "Ben Hur" per formances is raised promptly at 8 o'clock in the evening and at 2 o'clock at the matinee. Late comers will not be seated until the conclusion of the prelude, a beautiful scene representing the appearance of the Star of Bethle hem to the Wise Men. Included in the interpreting cast this season are: Conway Tearle as Ben Hur. Charles M. Harris, Anthony Andre, Jimes Wilson. Frank Weston, Charles Cnnfleld. Daniel Hanlon, E. H. Calvert. Alice Rhode3, Loyola O'Con nor and Maude Ream Stover. Seats for the engagement will be placed on sale Monday morning and mail orders will receive prompt at tention if accompanied by remittance. HART WON OX A POCTi. Jack (Twin) Sullivan Kenoatedly Hit the Kentuckian Low. Boston, October 22. Marvin Hart, the Kentucky pugilist, won the decision over Jack (Twin) Sullivan at Cam bridge on a foul in the fifth round of their bout scheduled for twelve rounds here Tuesday. It Was a case of the heavier of the twins biting off more than he could chew. He gave every evidence of wanting to lose on a breach of the rules as Hart was pressing him too hard. As early as the second round Sullivan hit low, but Hart 6verIooked It after calling attention to the foul. He rushed at Sullivan like a mad bull, en deavoring to crush him by his size. Sullivan had to use his wits to with stand the whirwind onslaught. They had hardly got started in tha third round when Sullivan aimed a left hook for the pit of the stomach, but it caught Hart below the belt. Sullivan slipped another blow below the limit and Hart went to the mat. The fourth round was clean with Sullivan on his good behavior, but the climax came in the fifth. Hart led a series of straight lefts with Sullivan falling to block. As Hart came in Sullivan ripped in a left hook that was unquestionably foul and Hart had to be carried to his corner. Carlisle to Play Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 22. Interest in fOOtball in t Vl M VeKmolrg .a m n -..na given a decided boost by the announce ment mat tiracluate Manager Eager, on behalf of the Cornhuskers, had en tered into a contract for a post-season game with the Carlisle Indians on uecemDer l or 2. The game is to be played on Nebraska field, and the Corn. hustaers are to have the choice ot ne,f ManaSer Porter, acting for the J rannagement, came to Lincoln today and accepted Manior r3r' guarantee. After the Redskins play Lincoln tney will likely book i game in TVnvAr f uafn.. t-. bp,r 5. Playing an aggregation of stars Hum me several college teams X I USES BIG STICK. (Continued from Page One.) Sixtieth congress, the complete text of which Is hereto appended. The gist of the bill, as can be seen by referring to the complete text, is this: First. After forbidding any federal Judge to issue a restraining order for an injunction in any labor dispute, ex cept to prevent irreparable injury to property or property rights, is specifi cally provided that "no right to carry on business of any particular kind or at any particular place, or at all, shall be construed, held, considered or treat ed at property or as constituting a property right." Second. It provides that nothing agreed upon or done by two or more parties in connection with a labor dis pute shall constitute a Conspiracy or other criminal offense or be prosecuted as such unless the thing agreed upon would be unlawful if done by a single individual. The bill here described is not only the "remedy" that Mr.-Gompers has "al ready submitted to congress," but it is the one and only "remedy which he and those associated with him in his present movement have announced that they will accept in the matter of his i e Mother and Sister of Ben Hur. grievance against the courts on the In junction issue. The counsel for the American Federa tion of Labor, and Mr. Gompers, its president, are on record to this effect. At a hearing before the house com mittee on judiciary the counsel of the American Federation of Labor on Feb ruary 5, 1908, (as appears from the printed hearing), stated: "The bill was considered by at least two sessions of the executive council of that organization and unanimously ap proved. It was considered by two of its national conventions the two latest and by these unanimously Indorsed, and in the face of many propositions to amend it, in the face of many pro posed substitutes, in the face of pres sure from every direction from high sources and sources not so exalted, the organization has stood by, and is to day standing by, this bill without amendment." Mr. Gompers himself is discussing this bill before the same committee. February 28, 1908, (as appears from the printed hearing) went on record as lol lows: "Events have demonstrated clearly to my mind that there is only one bill before the committee that at all will be effective to deal with this abuse, with this invasion of human rights, and that is the Pearre bill." Further on in the same page of the hearing, Mr. Gompers states: "I will say this, that I think I will try to make my position clear that the American Federation of Labor has so declared itself that it must insist upon the principles involved in the Pearre bill and that I explained as best I could the position of labor that we would rather be compelled to bear the wrongs which we have for a longer period than to give our assent to the establishment of a wrong principle, knowing that time would give the Justice and tlief to which labor the working people are entitled." This bill then, and none othfr, repre sents exactly the relief that Mr. Gom pers demands in the way of anti-injunction legislation: and if the state ment is correct, this bill represents whatiMr. Bryan and his party arc pledged to in the matter of anti-injunc tion legislation. x lie uijuiieiiun piniitw in the Bryanite platform may sound vague and hazy, but there is nothing vague or hazy about this biH. More Than a Bill. It is more than a bill; It is a program of the most fixed and definite kind; and if Mr. Gompers is correct, this bill be comes as it were, an appendix to Mr Bryan's platform, or a foot note, ex plaining In detail the briefer and vaguer WHEAT FLAKE CELERY contributes more nutriment to impoverished bad blood than any single article of diet known to men. Persons with rebellious stomachs can eat it with a sense of "genuine relish. 28 For sale by all Grocers injunction plank in that platform. T tl. -Dfv.an 'oOA 1. ..w,fc? Mr. Bryan should state publicly whether he, in fact, accepts the principle of this Dill, wnicn is uie uiuciai program w Mr. Gompers and those who stand with mm. Mr. Bryan's party has made his pro gram its own. Is Mr. Gorqper corrrect in this statement? Either Mr. Gompera is mistaken as to him in this matter of injunction legis- lattnn nw thnea whrfc rifflftpri hla rtartV'S platform, in their haste failed to make the promise eo clear that the general public would understand precisely as Mr. Gompers understands it. Mr. Bryan failed In his letter of ac ceptance to discuss this labor plank of his party's -latform. So' far as I am aware he has failed to discuss it since. There should be such discussion as matter of common fairness, not-only to labor, but to all citizens alike. On a qUCBLlVU 1 ouw r the people are entitled to know -where Mr. Bryan stands. Mr. Taft has repeatedly explained ex--ti whorx he stands in this matter of regulating Injunctions. Are we not emmea to unow uu equal clearness exactly where Mr. Bryan stands? Mr. Gompers' public statements as to .7 Tirnmiaed make it VS IUL I1I2 JJ j imperative that Mr. Bryan declare him self This bill, to the principle of which he savs Mr. Bryan Is pledged, declares that the right to carry on a business in a lawful way shall not be regarded as a property right or entitled to the pro tection of a court of equity through the process of an injunction; and that the right to such protection, which ad mittedly now, exists under the law, shall, be. taken away. The. counsel for. the American Feder t v.. in Vi i a Elimination be- fore the house on February 5, at which Mr Gompers himseu was preseni, b; a verv frank illustration of what hs VtoUevert in be the ana rar. ,uui, consequence of that provision of tha. bill which says ine r.&ui. v business shall not be entitled to pro tection as a property right. His words are: that ti-1-.t-v i n f men ov some OUP1JU3C in" i o operation or proceedings in the com- .av hv vlnVnnp or t)er- muniiy suasion or picketing away from the premises) reduce inose uiis o. -of utter helplessness, and there was i 1 mnvinor nnr fl nrocess in operation, and this company had no help at all that wouia De an mwi' ence with his right to do business; and for that I say he nas no ngnt iu uc protected by injunction." Is Mr. Bryan in reamy picuncu i this point of viey? Will he definitely sav either in writing or in a public ad dress, whether he believes with Mr. Gompers that protection heretoiore ai- forded by the court oi equity io i n a lawful business In 1 1 111 1 J a lawful way Is despotic power, and that the judges who exercise that pow er are irresponsible despots? So far as the secona secnon u.i.o bill is concerned, it is perfectly clear that it would legalize the blacklist and the sympathetic boycott carried to any extent. It would legalize acts which have time ana again uceu -i-"S i anil immnral bv the presaive, unjum best and most eminent laoor iaci Does Mr. Bryan believe with Mr. Gompers that h.e and that part of the labor movement -that agrees with him has the right morally and should be given the right legally to paralyze or to .destroy with im munity the busm.es of an innocent third party, against whom he or they have no direct grievance, simply be cause this third person refuses to join with them aggressively in a labof con troversy with the real merits of which he may be utterly unacquainted, be cause he refuses to class as his enemy any and every other employer whom they point out as their enemy, because he refuses, merely upon the peremptory order, to excommuni cate some other employer by ceasing all business relations with him. The black list and the secondary boycott are two of the most cruel forms of oppression ever devised by the wit or man for the infliction of suffering on his weaker fellows. No court could possibly exercise any more brutal, unfeeling, or despotic power than Mr. Gompers claims for himself and his followers In this, legislation which would permit them without let or hindrance of arty kind to carry on every form and degree of the second ary boycott. Form of Boycott. The anthracite strike commission, as fair minded and distinguished a body of men as ever passed Judgment on an industrial question, thus refers to the secondary form of boycott, that is the boycott of innocent third per sons for refusing to take an aggres sive part in a controversy when they have no concern: "To say this is not to deny the legal right of any man or set of men, voluntarily to refrain from social in tercourse or business relations with anv persons whom he or they, with or without good reason, dislikes. This may some times be un-Chrlstian, but it is not illegal.- But when it is a concerted purpose of a number of persons not only to abstain them selves from such intercourse, but to render the life of their victim mis erable persuading and intimidating others to ref rain, such, purpose is a malicious one, and the concerted at tempt to accomplish it is a conspiracy at common law and merits and should receive the punishment due to such a crime." The commission further states that this boycott can be carried to an extent "which was' condemned by Mr. Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, in his testimony before the commission and which certainly deserves the reproba tion of all thoughtful and law-abiding citizens." Does Mr. Bryan agree with Mr. Gompers that all existing legal re straint on the enforcement of every degree of the boycott should be withdrawn; that the ex-communica-tlon of the Innocent merchant who re fuses to render unquestionable obedience to the orders of Mr. Gompers should be legalized and en couraged; or does he believe with us and with Mr. Mitchell and other labor leaders who differ with Mr. Gompers in this matter that this form of the boycott is morally wrong, that labor at war should fight with its enemies and respect the rights of neutrals, that innocent third parties should not be coerced into taking sides in industrial disputes to which they are in no sense parties, under penalty of having their business attacked and destroyed Mr. Taft is perfectly definite on this proposition. Where does Mr. Bryan stand? Tn firtr who votes for or against Mr. Taft on this proposition does so with his eyes tpen and ,with a clear understanding from Mr. Taft of his position. He has frankly dis cussed this subject time and again with working men themselves, both In this campaign and prior to his nomination. He has been' willing to express his position, clearly and to assure working .men that to protect them in their rights he is willing to go to the limits of what he considers Justice, but that he will not go fur ther. His definition of justice to la bor does not, as we understand It, in clude either of the principles con tained in Mr. Gompers programme as set forth officially in this bilL Does Mr. Bryan disagree with Mr. Taft on these propositions? Will he state publicly, definitely, categorically, whether he accepts the programme! outlined in his bill, as Mr. Gompers in his letters has assured the public that he does? Mr. Bryan's party platform paid a high tribute to our courts of Justice. It states: "We-resent the attempt of the Republican "party to raise a false issue respecting the. judiciary. It Is an un just reflection upon a great body of our citizens to assume that they lack re spect for the courts." The "great body of our citizens," to whom this platform refers, is admit tedly Mr. Gompers and his followers. Attack on Federal Courts. Mr. Gompers, now Mr. Bryan's open and avowed ally, has in these letters herein quoted. attacked the federal courts in unmeasured terms of reproach because by a long line of decisions the equity courts have refused to make an outlaw of the business man; because his right to carry on a lawful business under the peace of the law has been protected by the process of injunction; because, in a word, one of the most vital and most fundamental rights of the business world, the right of a busi ness man to carry on his business, has been sustained and not denied by the processes of the courts of equity. This sweeping attack of Mr. Gompers upon the judiciary has been a frank and open effort to secure votes for Mr. Bryan. Are these attacks made with Mr. Bry an's consent? Do they meet with his approval? Does he indorse them or does he re pudiate them? Mr. Bryan has frankly questioned Mr. Taft during the progress of this cam paign and very properly so, asking him to clear his stand on public matters on which the public are entitled to be en lightened. In turn, with equal frank ness and with equal propriety, Mr. Bryan should be asked to break a long continued silence and make definite and certain his own position in regard to the matter which concerns not only business men and every decent, law abiding citizen, whether a wage work er or not. Just as much as it concerns Mr. Gompers and that part of organiz ed labor that stands with him. There is no need of generalities of vague ex pressions of sympathy for labor. Let Mr. Bryan simply confine himself to the anti-injunction plank of his own plat form and tell us publicly definitely and clearly whether he accepts or rejects the statement of Mr. Gompers that this plank pledges him to the principles of the bill for which Mr. Gompers stands; and whether if elected he will endeavor to have this proposal enacted into law. This is asked honestly, In the interest of that large voting public which be lieves sincerely in the promotion of ev ery legitimate right and interest of la bor, but which believes also that from the standpoint of the best interest of labor it neither requires nor is entitled to more than justice, and that the right to destroy business should not be for mally recognized in the law of the land. I feel that I have the right to speak frankly in this matter, because throughout my term as president it has been my constant object to do every thing in my power, both by administra tive action and by endeavoring to se cure legislative action to advance the cause of labor, protect it from unjust aggression and secure It to its legiti mate results. I have accomplished something; I hope to accomplish some thing more before I leave office; and I have taken special and peculiar inter est in Mr. Taft's candidacy because I believe that he is the man best quali fied for continuing the work of secur ing to the wage workers of the coun try their full rights. I will do every thing in my power for the wage work ers of the country except to do what is wrong. I will do wrong for no man, and with all the force in my power I solemnly warn the laboring men of thl? country that any public man who ad vocates doing wrong in their Interest cannot be trusted by them; and this whether his promise to do wrong is given knowing that it is wrong, or be cause of a levity or lack of considera tion which made him willing to prom ise anything without counting the cost if thereby support at the moment 13 to be purchased. Just as I have fought hard and shall continue to fight hard to bring about in the fullest way the recognition of the employe to be amply compensated for Injury received in the course of his duties, so I have fought hard and shall continue to fight hard to do away with all abuses In the use of the power of injunction. I will d. everything I can to see that the power of injunction is not used to oppress laboring men. I will endeavor to se cure them full and equal justice. There fore, in the interest of all good citizens, be they laboring men, business, profes sional men, farmers or members of any other occupation so long as they have in their souls the principles of sound American citizenship, I denounce as wicked the proposition to secure a law which, according to the explicit state ment of Mr. Gompers is to prevent the courts from effectively interfering with riotous violence when the object Is to destroy a "business, and which will le galize the blacklist and the secondary boycott, both of them apt lnstrumens of unmanly persecution. But there is another account against Messrs. Bryan and Gompers in this matter. Ephriam feedeth on wind. Their proposed remedy Is an empty sham. They are seeking to delude their followers by the promise of a law which would damage this country solely be cause of the vicious, immoral purpose that would be shown by putting it upon the statute books, but which would be utterly worthless to accomplish its avowed purpose. 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Idle money might as well be earning interest 495 6-Months' Coupon Time Certificates at The State Savings Bank CORNER SIXTH AND KANSAS AVENUE Payable on demand in case of need. Renewal necessary enly once in 2 yrs. CALL FOR STATEMENT Deposits, $1,000,000.00. 3 Per Cent on Savings Account. Ltave TOPEKA 4.30 am 6.00 am GOING. SEVEN TRAINS EACH WAY RFTtfRNBWI KANSAS CITY 7 66 9 Sm CLEANLINEiSSM b the watchword for health and vigor, cora. fort and beauty. Mankind is learning not only the necessity bat the luxury of cleanli. Bess. SAP0L1O, which baa wrought auck changes in the home, annouacea her aictaf ftriuaaph HAND SAPO'LIO FOR TOILET AND BATH A special soap which energizes tha whole body, starts the circulation and leares aa "rha.T.ti.ij glow. A1 grocers and druggists. est doubt that such a law as that pro posed by Mr.- Bryan would. If enacted by congress, be declared unconstitu tional by a unanimous supreme court, unless, indeed, Mr. Bryan were able to pack this court with men appointed for the special purpose of declaring such a law constitutional. Trusts Flavor Bryan. I happen to know that great trust magnates have announced within the past few weeks, in answer to the question as to why they were openly or secretly favoring the election of Bryan, that the laws that Mr. Bryan proposed, including especially this law, would be wholly ineffective, be cause the court would undoubtedly throw them out and that the prom ises to enact them couid therefore be safely disregarded. On July 2 last the special counsel to the Central Association of Building Trades of New York, Edward J. Gavegan sub mitted to that association an opinion which was openly indorsed and ap proved the same day by the Central Association of Building Trades of New York. H this opinion in dis cussing proposals to do away with or modify the power of Issuing lnjunc tins in industrial disputes above all others "would be class legislation and in the nature of special privilege, and special privilege is the bane of the workingman." 1 Special privilege Is what creates powerful special interests. What the wage earner wants and all he wants is equality before the law. It is play ing into the hands of the special in terests to enact laws which are cer tain of annulment by the courts, even when they are intended in good faith for the betterment of the working- men. The special Interests would rather spe a thousand favorable but unenforcible new laws enacted for the wage earner than to have him learn the full power of a single existing remedy. The remedies so far sug gested and made public cannot in the very nature of our system furnish any needed relief. Iabor representatives should con cehtrate and use their influence for the enactment of general measures calculated to protect and not destroy the remedy or injunction. This is admirably, sound sense; the N.. gHeat Ounce Oj mercury drops out of sight, and can't keep the house warm, you'll m 4L m. J II 1 find it wonderfully convenient to use a PERFECTION Oil Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device) light carry it about heat any cold Turn the wick h.'ah or low no no smoke no smell. Easily cared lor and gives nine hours oi cozy comfort at one tiling o( brass lonL Finished in nickel and japan. Every heater warranted. its flood ol steady. iriiliuit light is ideal (or tk.U the long winter evenings Latest improved central 8.00 am 2.10 pm 3.25 pm 7.28 pm 7.65 pm BETWEEN TOPEKA AND KANSAS GlTY DOUBLE TRACKS NO STOPS Dptf fint aaj Com At. ftaM a 10.40 am 11.20 am 6.10 pm 10.00 pm 10.40 pm The Florist HIRAM HULSE -Grows his own plants in his own greenhouses Elmwood and Greenwood Aves., Potwin Special attention given to floral de signs. v PALMS TO RENT Sales and display rooms 819 Kansas Avenue Phono 458 opinion of the counsel to a great la bor party, indorsed and adopted aa its own by that labor party. It. is a scathing condemnation of tbe pro posals, vicious and chimerical, to which 'Messrs. Bryan and Gompera are committed. They promise what would be in the highest degree detri mental to the interests of the general public if it could be performed and what as a matter of fact could not be performed. I believe both in the patriotism and the intelligence of the workingmen, the laboring men of America Therefore I do not believe that they can be misled to their own deep hurt as Messrs. Bryan and Gompers seek to mislead them. I do not believe that they will permit Mr. Gompers to deliver them like chattels to Mr. Bryan in exchange for a sham. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, P. O. Knox, TJ. 8. S., Valley Forge. Pa FOR Asthma Bronchitis Catarrh Difficult Breathins meail Pour a teaspoonful of Omega Oil in a cup of boiling water, hold the mouth and nose close to the cup, and inhale the arising steam. The steam carries the healing properties of the Oil into the throat and lungs and gives quick relief. Trial bottle 10c

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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVEICLNG, OCTOBER 22, 1903. T0PER STVfE JOURML By FRANK P. MAC LENXAN. .Entered July L 1S7S. as second-class matter at the postoffice at Topeka. Kan.. Under the act of congreM. VOLUME XapcV No. 264 OHiclal State Pnpcr. Oflicial Taper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mail, one year $3. By mail, three months 9n Saturday edition of dally, one year... 1.00 TELEPHONED Business Office Bell WT Business Office Ind. 107 Reporters' Room Bell 577 Reporters' Room Ind. 65 Frank P. MscLenran. Ind. 700 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal building. W0 and 03 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. New York Office: Flatlron building, at Twenty-third street, comer Fifth avenue nd Broadway. Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Hartford building. Paul Block, manager. I'T'LI, LEASED wire report OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal !s s. member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganisation for the exclualva afternoon publication In Topeka. The news 1 received In The State Jour nal building over wires for this sole purpose. It Is respectfully suggested that an adequate addendum to various of the football teams in this vicinity would fcs soma efficient hospital corps. ;An Illuminating contribution to con temporaneous literature has been fur nished by Jim Jeffries, erstwhile cham pion pug of the world, in which he sizes up the various prize fighters of this and other lands. Napoleon must be resting uneasily In his grave Just now. To his France belongs the honor of opening a way for the peaceful settlement of the dif ficulties which almost precipitated a war In the Near East. Think of Na poleon's land acting in the role of a peacemaker. Surely do the times change. Oklahoma is fast removing Its crimi nals from the Kansas penitentiary and when they are all gone there will be' a. shortage of labor at this institution. This is the kind of a labor shortage that a state can well gloat over even if it means the curtailment of the ex tent of some of the industries operated In the state's prison. The endorsement given by the com mittee of two hundred to. Fred S. Jack son, the state's attorney general, John J. Schenck, the Shawnee county attor ney and John Wilkerson, the Shawnee county sheriff. Is a Just and proper one. These men have discharged the pub lic trusts imposed on them in an emi nently satisfactory manner. More of Topeka's good ball players have 'been called to higher spheres in the baseball world and, the, champion ship team of the recent season has had many big holes punctured in it. But it is safe to say that Dick Cooley will gather another bunch of likely ball tossers who will be in the running for next year's Western Association pen nant. It is gratifying to ascertain that even the state railroad commission ers, erudite as they are, are not too Old to learn. Commissioner Kanavel reports that the meeting of the Na tional Association of State Railroad commissioners, which was held recent ly at Washington and which he at tended, was a great source of instruc tion to those engaged in that line of work. The police do not seem to experience much trouble in enforcing the laws against "crap-shooting" with consid erable success and for which they evi fiently think they are entitled to a few medals, promiscuously distributed among them, but the same can not be aid of their efforts, if they make any, to stop certain automobillsts from "shooting" through the streets at reckless and dangerous rates of speed. These Instructions which the Re publican and Democratic state leaders are sending out from Topeka to the party workers over the state urging them to keep wide awake on election day, and on the night of that day when the votes will be counted, so that neither one side nor the other can "steal" the election, will strike many people as being ridiculously academic It is safe to say that the days of pro curing state and national elections by petty thieving are In the past. Ed Howe's particular friend, the La dies' Home Journal, seems bent on merrily pursuing its course of combin ing business with pleasure. In Its re cent issue is an article informing its readers on the proper and becoming way for women to do up their hair and the columns surrounding this first aid to those who are afflicted with unbe coming coiffures are profuse with ad vertisements t?lllng where the latest things in puffs, rats, wigs and other attractive, if false, hirsute appen dages, may be purchased. Advices from New Tork are to the effect that after his African hunt Presi dent Roosevelt will become an associate editor of the Outlook, the philosophical magazine of which Dr. Lyman Abbott, the distinguished divine, who succeeded Henry Ward Beecher in the pulpit of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, is the editor. Mr. Roosevelt's work in connection with the Out look will be devoted to the discussion of political and economic topics. This will probably take but a minimum of his time for he has such a facile pen that a day's work on his part at writing would fill two or three numbers of the magazine, unless its size is to be en larged. Particularly pertinent to Kansas at this time is the publication of the an nual report of the Missouri Pacific Rail way company which shows a surplus for the past year of more than a mil lion dollars after the payment of allj fixed charges and dividends from the net earnings. The vice president of the company told the state board of rail road commissioners recently that his company would improve Its tracks and roadbed in this state whenever its earnings on its lines In Kansas were such as to permit It to do so. The annual report shows the road to be earning pretty good money but maybe its officials can present figures to show that none of these earnings resulted from the operation of the road in this state. THE LEGISLATOR'S PAY. An amendment to the state's consti tution which is to be voted on at the coming election that is worthy of the support of all the! voters of Kansas, ir respective of their political affilia tions, Is the one which increases the pay of the members of the legislature from $3 a day to $500 for a regular ses- sion and $100 for a special session. Indeed, it might have been better if the framers of this proposed constitu tional provision had placed the salaries of the legislators at a higher figure. For every man, every laborer either In public or private life, is worthy of his hire. And any man who Is considered by a legislative constituency to be- able and intelligent and honest enough to represent it in the state's legislature is i surely entitled to more for his services than a really paltry $3 a day which is barely enough for living expenses to a man, who like most all of the mem bers of the legislature has to provide himself with a temporary home of some sort in a city other than his own and who in most cases also is forced to maintain a residence of his own In his home town. It certainly must have been a. trifle humiliating, to say the least, to the legislators In the past to receive th. same per diem wage that has been given to the negro janitors and other em ployes around the legislative halls. Most of the other states in the union are far more liberal with their legls-, lators than Kansas has been or even proposes to be. New York, for instance, pays her state senators and members of the lower house $1,500 a year and has annual sessions of the legislature, and there has been talk in the Empire state for some time that even this sum is far too small for the legislators. A legislator who is adequately paid for his services, as he should be, is more apt to withstand corrupting in fluences than one who Is ex pected to serve for love or for patri otism. While discussing this subject of the right of the members of the state's leg islature to a reasonable salary it might be pertinent to call attention to the fact that Kansas is not any too liberal in recompensing other of her public ser vants adequately. The salaries at tached to many of the important state offices which impose onerous and ex ceedingly responsible duties on the holders of them are miserably small in comparison with the service demanded. Kansas insists on a high degree of ef ficiency and honesty in the conduct of her affairs at the hands of the men who are entrusted with their adminis tration. And yet she does not coma anywheres near providing them with compensation accordingly. This mat ter of fixing the salaries of the state officers at Just figures is one which ought to receive the careful attention of the coming legislature. Kansas wants the best of her men she can possibly get to carry on her govern-' ment and she is now affluent enough to pay them well and pay them liberally. THE CAUSE OP THE WRECK. Financial and business panics are exceedingly handy things on which to lay blame for everything under the sun which happens to go awry. So not much surprise is called forth by attention being directed to the fact that if it had not been for the recent financial panic, which compelled most of the railroads to retrench consider ably in all lines, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company would have been able to double track that portion of its line between Braddock and Walton, and accordingly the re cent disastrous head-on collision there would not have occurred. But surely the Santa Fe officials, who are calling attention to what would not have happened if there had been no financial panic and the com pany had been able to continue its work of double tracking its line through this portion of Kansas, do not attribute this as the real reason for the wreck. In fact it is little or no excuse for it at all. From all the re ports of the smash-up. which most fortunately resulted in only one fatal ity, one of the engineers did not pay proper heed to the signals and the wreck resulted. Thus ia it no more than reasonable to credit this wreck to human frailty, for no intelligent engineer, and the great, great majority of them are intelligent and keenly alert to their great respon sibilities, would purposely disregard a signal. Railroad engineers, no matter how careful and efficient they may be, are nothing but human beings after all They are Just as faulty In construction as all other men and are just as liable to make mistakes. But they are at a tremendous disadvantage over other men. Most every man in the course of a day's work makes a mistake or two, many of them so trivial perhaps that they do not count for much when the efforts of a day are considered by the generally good results achieved. With the engineer on the road it is different. His slightest lapse of atten tion, and there are countless things occurring to distract it, is liable to be fraught with the gravest of dangers and results. A slip on his part through a failure to properly interpret an or der or to see a signal usually means disaster, most often more dangerous to himself than to the precious freight that is trailing behind him. There are countless railroad wrecks which can be attributed to pure, downright carelessness, to track and roadbeds improperly cared for. to de fective rolling stock arid defective rails. But there ax many othar mil. road wrecks, like the one which Just happened on the Santa Fe, which can be charged to no other thing than the frailty of human nature, the liability of engineers as well as other men to make mistakes. To be sure, this is not a pleasant condition of affairs to contemplate. But that makes it none the less true. And there will be wrecks Just like this one, occurring with more or less frequency, as long as railroad trains are operated by human beings, which will probably be to the end of time or the end of railroads. J JOURNAL ENTRIES Marriage may be elevating but It Is not much good in lifting one out of debt. Most persons have trouble enough without anyone bothering to give them any more. Few individuals have any difficulty at all in fixing up arguments to quiet their consciences. During this campaign as in others which have gone before, most men re main faithful in supporting their fam ilies. Generally a youngster In a family where there is a baby merely has the distinction of being the baby's broth er. JAYHAWKER JOTS A woman called at the Pauck home in Ottawa recently and left a little girl to ba looked after for a short time. She has not returned for it but has enough interest in the child to call up the Paucks occasionally by telephone to inquire how the child is getting along and how it likes its new home. "This is the first time in the history of Montgomery county when either po litical party nominated anybody for justice of the supreme court of Kan sas," says the Tyro Herald, In an at tempt to inform the public that Jo seph P. Rossiter, Democratic nominee for the supreme bench, is the first Montgomery county man to be nomi nated for that place. Nothing could be more indicative of the prosperity and good feeling which predominates here now than the re markable response to the request for funds with which to build a new Methodist church. When a congrega tion will give $14,000 in fifteen min utes, it is a pretty fair indication that the members are satisfied to live in the community the rest of their lives and raise their children here. Leav enworth Post. At Hutchinson in 189 that was the year Bryan really carried Kansas the Democrats held a rally a few days before the election. Just before the speaking at the auditorium the Bryan men paraded the streets and the procession of wagons, buggies, men on horseback and men on foot ex tended from the bridge across the Kansas river to the old Santa Fe de pot. The other day the Bryan men held another rally and the News says that 57 men marched In the proces sion. The residence of Scott E. Winne, a Wichita banker, who skipped the country last winter, was sold at auc tion recently for $40:000. It is one of the most gorgeous houses in Kan sas, and shortly before absconding, Winne spent as much as the place brought at the sale in fixing it up. It was bought by an ice dealer and the wise old Emporia Gazette remarks that only ico men and laundry proprie tors can afford such luxuries. Too true. In the Journal the Salina sage makes this defense of his quarrel with the neighbors: Franklv. I don t like neighbors. I would a great deal rather thero were none were such a thing possible. All through my life, some times to a much greater degree than at others, the neighbors have caused me trouble. Formerly when I wanted to sleep at night the spooning couples next door would keep me awake. Later, when I worked at night and wanted to sleep In the morning the children kept me awake. On one oc casion a beautiful and talented young lady next door persisted in cultivating her voice, and began operations at 5 o'clock in the morning. There has most of my life been something about the neighbors I did not like. When I was a youngster I could He out of the average scrape so far as my par ents were concerned, but some neigh bor invariably got me into trouble. On one occasion I remember I played 'hookey' from school. Everything went lovely until after the evening meal had been finished, a neighbor girl came in after the milk with which their table was supplied by my folks (I milked the cow). Her eyes sought me out and she gurgled. "Why wasn't you at school today. Billy Small got a licking.' Frankly I don't like neigh bors. GLOBE SIGHTS. rFrom the Atchison Globe. Does the woman who goes around lec turing about Home Life fool anybody? There are not as many people In the world as there are heroes in the novels. When a woman goes to a neighbor's house for a "minute." she stays an hour. Did it ever occur to you that there is a good deal of fun in being shocked? If it is not too small for the bulk of the woman who has It. a, small waist is very attractive. The people should be reminded oftener that genius Is finding the right thing and sticking to it. As we grow older, tf Is harder to get the look on our faces the photographer insists upon seeing there. Every once in awhile we meet some man on the streets who- says he is "rest ing" that we know never worked. About the first thing a girl does after she has been told she has a fine figure. Is to have a princesse dress made. What hae become of the old-fashioned woman 'who had her photograph taken with one hand holding a half-opened book? A woman should not have been engaged any oftener than she has been married, and she should not have married more than once. If the present sentiment continues grow in sr. in the future mothers will not let their children play with the children of bank receivers. Probablv no buyer of a railroad ever felt the financial glow and happiness a woman experiences when she sells a quart of milk to a neighbor. It's a fine thing to be a boy. Boys are fussed at a good deal, but it is, neverthe less, a fine thing to be a boy. A boy gets more out of life than a girl. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. rFrom the New York Press.! The only close listener an orator has is himself. A man wants to have his children well trained if his wife will do it. It's reasonably safe to place trust in people who have no chance to. betray it. The less a man knows about making love to a woman the more she can do it for him. A satisfactory thing about your van ity is how sure you are it is only modest KANSAS COMMENT INCREASE OF FREIGHT RATES. The statement made by the man agers of the leading railroads that they intend to make an Increase in freight rates has naturally caused consider able perturbation among the whole sale and Jobbing fraternity. The pub lic generally have had a feeling that freight rates are high enough, and that the railroads are waxing rich thereby. B, F. Yoakum, president of the Rock Isiand-Frisco lines, however, presents the railroads' side of the case, and shows that compared to the rates charged by English railroads, Ameri can rates are rioiculously low. In Great Britain one dollar will move a ton of freight 43 miles, in France 66 miles, in Germany 76 miles, but in the United States, according to Mr. Yoakum, you can ship a ton of average freight 138 miles for a dollar bill. According to Interstate commerce statistics for 1907, the railways of this country earned from the transporta tion of freight $1,826,000,000. Had this same tonnage been moved over English lines the freight bill would have approximated $4,000,000,000. In Great Britain, locomotive fire men average $300 per annum, while here they make about $763. British passenger conductors, or "guards," as they are called, there, earn the in significant sum of $315ayear, while in the United States passenger conduc tors average $1,156 per annum. Lo comotive engineers in the Old Country make about $47 a year,, while on this side of the water, according to the most reliable -ctatiwUae, the men who hold the throttle lever make in the neighborhood of $1,367 annually.. Sec tion men in the United States average $423 per annum, which is $108 more than conductors get en the crack roads of Great Britain. And here's the key to the whole thing: American .locomotives haul bigger trains. The ordinary Lake Shore Michigan Southern freight train is equal to at least ten English goods trains. It is more profitable to feed 1,000 people daily at 15 cents a head than to feed 50 at 50 cents. Small profits and lots of them is what counts nowadays Wichita Eagle. BIG TALK. In spite of the panic and the poli tical campaign, and the ever present complaints, which possibly help, there is no doubt that this is the most pros perous nation In the world. The panic which began here last year was world wide, but recovery; commenced quicker in this country than else where, and extended farther. At the beginning of the panic our purchases of imports fell off at once, but the ex port trade went on for some time un checked, which gives the biggest bal ance of trade in our favor ever made in the history of the country; $666, 000,000 for the year ending June 1st last. No other country in the world ever before had a margin of trade even remotely approaching that of the United States. Thus commerce ad justed the financial situation: not politics. By the great balance of trade we secured' Increased credits abroad, which provided the gold necessary to tide ns over the financial crisis. This country produces more coal. Iron, lead, petroleum, cotton, wheat, corn, silver and some other products than artj'Tpther country in the world. Hfl ffre the.' greatest number of miles of navigable rivers of any country in t,heWortd; the greatest railway mileage. There la idle land In tha country which' could provide cotton enough in a year to supply the needs of the world,' No country is so rich: in fact no three countries. In no other country is the average man so well housed and fed and paid for his efforts, and no other land offers equal opportunities of advancement. The fact that the United States has the most liberal and just form of government in the- world has had something to do with our vast pros perity. Natural resources and the pioneer blood of those who started the country, and immigrants who have appreciated it have done the rest. Atchison Globe. FROM OTHER PENS MAKING OF MANY LAWS. Lieutenant Governor Chanler, who is canvassing New York state in an effort to supplant Governor Hughes at the head of the state government, makes a point in one of his recent speeches that should have a wider application than can be given it in a local campaign. Mr. Chanler says the people of this country are gov erned too much; that the constant addition to the bulk of statutory en actment makes law enforcement in creasingly difficult and obedience to law more lax.. The contrast between this argument and the plea of the -ordinary political aspirant Will not fail to impress the reader. The almost universal cry is for more law. more, control and cor respondingly less Individual respon sibility for right conduct. Experience teaches that laws, 'unless backed by public sentiment, prove of no avail, while-public sentiment haa many ways of enforcing its will.:: even if it is not expressed in statute. There are many situations arising from time to time that demand new laws, many and obvious reforms demand legislation to carry them into effect. Yet most thinking people will agree that we have a superfluity Of laws and show too little inclination to curtail the con stant output' of -.statute making. Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.. Prof. William Mllligan Sloane, of Columbia university, president of the American Institute of Arts and Let ters, has revived the old discussion of the American national anthem, the search for which has continued for generations, despite the popularity of certain tunes. It is believed that the subject will be taken up for formal consideration shortly by a commission, and it is quite likely that before many months have passed the American people will be formally told that they have no national air worthy the name and asked to supply the deficiency. It has often been said that no American' audience can be relied upon to sing through "The Star Spangled Banner" for even one verse. Perhaps out of a hundred people one may know the words and be able to hold the air, with its wide range and severe demands upon the voice.- Yet that is the nearest approach to an American national air, and it fs not of native growth. The words of Fran cis Scott Key's poem were set to the music of an old theatrical tune, which had been in turn 1orrowed from European sources. "America," on the other hand, is a direct adoption of the British national anthem, which is of Teutonic origin, and is at this time the recognized national, air of several of the German principalities. Wash ington Star. BLAZING THE TRAILS. They dart from Dan to Beersheba they leap like kangaroos; They breakfast out at Council Bluffs and sup at Syracuse: One loops the loop to Falrview ere- the dawn comes with, the day. Tne other makes a running jump and Iand at Oyster Bay; One scorches out to Keokuk, one races up to Troy. t One whizzes through Missouri, and one covers Illinois; The campaign's growing strenuous twould break a serpent's back To follow all the trails now blazed by Hitchcock and by Mack. One dashes out to Denver, and one tolls to Timbuctoo; One chases to Chicago ere the other gets hai: through; One Jer'ks Taft out of Arkansas and moves him un to Maine; One boosts Bill Bryan out of Butte and checks him for Champaign; One breakfasts down in Kankakee and sleep in Jacksonville; One goes to bed at Fresno and wakes up at Bunker Hill; The rails are red and burning hot. the air With smoke, is black. And dust hangs heavy o'er the trails of Hitchcock and ot Mack. The engines puff and smoke and wheeze T there is a whiz and whirr; As Hitchcock passes New Orleans, a hot and hazy blur; Another snort and chug and toot a mad and mighty cheer As Mack goes by, a fuzzy streak upon the atmosphere; From Baton Rouge to Plymouth Rock the hazy highway bends; From Burlington to Baltimore and ere the campaign ends The red horizon will be split a long and gapini: crack. And space will somewhere hold the trails of Hitchcock and of Mack. J. W. Foley, in the New York Sun. The Ways of Butterflies. Paul Cochelet, a professional ornith ologist and entomologist of Paris, France, arrived in New Yorkast Wed nesday on his way-to Brazil on a butterfly hunting expedition. He is a short, thickest man of thirty-eight and keeps a large butterfly and bird store in Paris, which is patronized by col lectors from all parts of the world. Mr. Cochelet is accompanied by an as sistant. "I expect to remain in Brazil about four months," Mr. Cochelet said in speaking of his trip. "I have hunted in Brazil many times before, as the country affords no less than 700 differ ent species of the butterfly, which is nearly twice as many as can be se cured in all Europe. "Nearly all butterflies fly nphill," he said. "I do not know just why they do that, but they do. and where there ia a track or pathway up the hill they fly along the track. When they get to the summit and there is no more path to follow, they seem to feel lost and circle round and round, often for hours, and then suddenly disap pear. I have never been able to find out where they go nor why they act like that." Mr. Cochelet holds that butterflies and moths are the best actors in the world. "Birds," said he, "are, of course, the butterfly's chief enemies, but some butterflies do not agree with birds' digestions, and the nonpolsonous varieties imitate those the birds don't eot in a most wonderful way. The re sult of such mimicry is that birds, not being experts, leave both kinds alone, and the same thing occurs among caterpillars, beetles and all kinds of insects. There is a moth, for instance, which rests on the ground. It is a large moth, and as it rests among dead leaves its wing tips quiver constantly. Now, the bird's great enemy is the snake, and this moth knows it. Each of its wing tips forms a perfect imita tion of a small, snake's head and the birds never go near it. "Butterfires, too. are very inquisitive, and a frequent way to catch otherwise uncatchable specimens is to shoot one of them and pin it down. Hundreds of its kind attracted by the smell will come to see what has happened, and then the net comes into play." New York Press. The Pathos Went Wrong;. Irving Bachellor, the novelist, is of unusually agreeable appearance and address. Once when he was a repor ter on a New York morning newspa per, the Sunday editor said to him: "I want you to write me a good story about the trials and discourage ments of men who are looking for work in a big city. Get up early to morrow, put on some old clothes, and visit all the places that advertise for male help in the morning paper. Give an account of the number of appli cants and the kind of men they are, and describe vividly the feelings of a poor devil who, perhaps, has had no breakfast and has walked miles be cause he hasn't got car fare, and then meets disappointment after disap pointment. Draw It good and strong on the pathos. People like to read that sort of thing. At noon the next day Mr. Bacheller appeared at the office, crestfallen. "I'm afraid I can't make anything out of that story," he said, to the Sunday editor. "What's the trouble?" "I've got three jobs already and a promise of two mere." New York Times. Dog Has Wooden Leg:. There Is a little dog out in German town which has been the cause of much amusement during the past year, and all because he years a wood en leg. About a year ago the dog. which belonged to a young lady of about 5 years, was run over by a trol ley car, its leg being cleanly ampu tated at a point about half way down. The young lady was, of course, grief stricken, so her father, instead of shooting the dog, as he had at first intende, bandaged up its leg, with the result that in time the animal recover ed. For a while it limped around on three legs, but its progress was very painful to behold. Then the little girl's father evolved the idea of constructing a wooden leg. He did this with great care and at tached t by straps so as to make it absolutely secure. The dog did not appreciate the advantages of a wooden leg for some time and tried hard to get it off, even going so far as to gnaw at it viciously. Gradually, how ever, enlightenment came upon him, and soon he was putting it to its full use. Now he can get around on it as well as most dogs can on the legs that nature gave them, but the sight is a strange one, and the little girl and her dog excite mirth wherever they go. Philadelphia Record. Fascination of an Old Book. "There seems to be a fascination about an old book store that some per sons find It difficult to overcome," ob served the proprietor of one of those establishments. "While we have a large number of good patrons, there are some who delight to come in and just pore over old volumes. I have seen men stand in this store and prac tically read a book through in an aft ernoon. They seem to forget their surroundings for the time being, and when they emerge from their ab straction they aro apt to observe that they "have Just been looking over the books' and ask for some volume that they are quite sure is out of print. Yes, sir, the old book store Is a tree liDrary in a way, but it is an interesting busi ness and fairly profitable." Philadel phia Record, THE EVENING STORY Duncan's Guide. (By Sidney Hedges Cole.) When Duncan accepted Mrs. Har vey's invitation to Join her house party in the mountains, that worthy lady was overjoyed. Here indeed was the very man she had been seeking a man whose name was on everybody's lips, a veritable lion, who would make her the envy of all her set. He was the man who had spent a month in Lhassa, and who had talked with the grand lama himself, a draw ing card of the highest magnitude. Mrs. Harvey spent a good half, day in congratulating herself, and won dering just how she had been able to manage it. She pictured him as aha had last seen him, happy, exuberant, boyish young man, who would entertain her other guests by the hour with most absorbing anecdotes of his work, his travel and the dangers he had under gone. Duncan arrived duly. The guests, who were assembled oft the wide ver anda, saw Tim bring the. big road car up to the stepd, saw a bronzed, grave faced yonng man climb out and punc tiliously greet Mrs. Harvey as "Cousin Mary." If they had expected any signs of his far-heralded exploits about him, any gray hairs on his head, or any marks of suffering upon hts face, they were doomed to disappointment. He was fair-haired, sleek,. well groomed." Indeed he looked much mors like a prosperous business jra an on a week end vacation than-acelebrity, with whose name two .continents were ring ing. At dinrfer that night Mrs. Harvey made her first attempt to draw him out. "Now, Ted," she suggested as the coffee was served, f'we'ra all impatient to hear about it." Duncan looked surprised. "About what. Cousin Mary.?" he asked. "What indeed? sne returned. "Your recent triumph in Lhassa, of course." Duncan actually blushed under his coat of tan, and squirmed uneasily in his chair, as he realized all the eyes at the table were upon him. "Oh, that!" he said. "It's nothing really nothing. It's not worth the telling." "But the papers said "The papers," he Interrupted, "the yellow sheets, you mean. Cousin Mary. They must have news. They'll make something out of the most hopeless material." "You talked with the grand lama. Tell us about him. What did he say?" Duncan laughed with some embar rassment. "Nice little chap, the lama. Youngish, he is, with a lean face and keen eyes. We had quite a gossiping bee, through an interpreter. Seemed most interested in the color of my hair, the lama did. Wanted to know what made it yellow. I tried to tell him it was nature and not peroxide that did it, but the interpreter got all tangled up trying to put it right, and the la ma's face was like a graven image. I guess the thing didn't go." In self-defense he turned to the girl at his left. "What was your score on the links this afternoon?" he asked. "Forty-one T Fine! Wish I could do as good as that." As an attraction, an entertainer of Mrs. Harvey's guests, Duncan proved a signal failure. He was taciturn, shy, ill at ease. The guests on their part stood rather in awe of the big, grave young man, with the slaw .smile and the thoughtful eyes. They imagined he found them triv ial, not worth his efforts. When they were on the links, or putting the hors es to the hurdles behind the stables, he took long solitary rambles across the mountain. When they played bridge, or danced In the evening.. he sat alone on the ver anda, smoking innumerable cigarettes. Mrs. Harvey, in frank disappointment, told herself he was impossible. The usual game of bridge was in full swing one evening, and Duncan was sitting quite alone on one end of the veranda, looking at the great bulk of the mountains, looming dimly In the moonlight. He heard the door open softly, and turning, he saw Eleanor Graydon com ing toward him. Duncan's pulses quickened. There was something about this tall, beautiful girl, with her cool voice and her steady brown eyes, that he found most attractive most dis quietingly attractive, indeed. She laughed softly as she saw him there. "Deserter!" she tauted. "You and your pose of solitude are getting on Mrs. Harvey's nerves. I can see it. Really, I'm beginning to believe you conceited." Duncan drew up a chair. "Won't you sit here for a minute and watch these mountains with me?" said he. "I'm I'm He paused. "You're what?" she prompted. "Lonely," he finished, with such evi dent sincerity in his voice that the girl felt a little pang of remorse. "I presume you find us stupid," said she, sitting down beside him. "After such a crowded life as yours has been, all this must be very tame." "Tame?" he said with sudden Ear nestness. "Tame? Oh, heavens, no." "You give us that impression, any way." "Do I?" said he. He leaned for ward in his chair. "Do you know how 1 feel here? Will you respect my secret if I tell you 7", She nodded. 7 "Well, then, like a fish out of water. I'm afraid honestly and actually afraid. You see, all my life I have traveled. I've been into the out-of-the-way places of the earth. I haven't had time t,o cultivate any of the graces of civilization. Ail in all, I'm a bar barian, more or less. "I've looked forward to this to this coming here to Cousin Mary's and meeting all these people of your world more than I can tell you. But It has taught me something about myself. Much as I wish I fitted In this niche. I'm impossible. As a participator in social functions in the accepted sense of the term I'm hopeless." The girl looked at him with a quiet smile. "I'll take back that remark about your conceit, and ask your forgiveness for it, too," said she. "Oh, you boy! You great, big hearted, simple boy! You envy us in this silly, meaningless life of ours you who have been doing something! I wish you might know how I envy that life of yours!" "Do you mean that really?" he cried. "It Is worth a thousand lives like ours." "But I am isolated. I am alone. I have cut myself off from all that I really want. I want to be like these other men here. T want to talk to you as they do to be as unafraid of you as they are." "That? Oh, pooh!" she laughed. "Tell me, when you go into an un known country, what do you do before you try to travel it take a guide, don't you?" "Yes." "Well, that's what you must do here. Take a guide. Then I'll warrant In a week in a day you'll know the ropes from beginning to end." "A guide." he repeated musingly. "Yes, that's It. I must take a guide ta r show me to civilization. My work ii done, now. I want to live In my own country, therefore, I must have thai guide. I I there ia only one I want. and I want her for life," he stammered, but ne looked at her with no uncertain light In his eyes. "I am presumptuous.'' I know. I am nothing but a barbarian, -as I told you, but perhaps with tha sruide It mitrht be different." He turned suddenly and caught her hand in his own. "Can I have that guide?" he asked unsteadily. The girl arose. Her face was scar let, but her eyes wera looking into his. "Your first lesson will be in bridge," he said. "Come in, and I'll teach you." But Duncan caught her In his arms and held her fast. "Yes, dear," she murmured. "I loved you from the very first, you- were so -so unspoiled by what I'm going to guide you into." (Copyright, 1908, by Associated Literary Press.) HUMOR OF THE DAY Luxury Expensive. "Why did you sell your auto?" "Cost too much for repairs.". "Wasn't it a good machine?" "First rate. Never got out of order. But I had to pay for repairing the people it ran over." Philadelphia Ledger. The Better Man ""Yea." said the politi cal boss, "we'll have to give Crookley this nomination." "But." protested the un sophisticated one, "why not Goodley? Ha's better able to fill the office." "Perhaps, but Crookley is better able to get it' Philadelphia Press. Wsle is the leap year girl who believes that a good name ia rather to be chosen Wise is the leap year girl who believes The Bride I think this looks like a nice, respectable place for us to eat. Jason. See. it says "tables reserved for ladies." The Groom (in surprise) But. darn it, Sally,' don't you want me to sit at the same table with you? Puck. "She certainly Is the most Ignorant ser vant we ever had!" "Yea. And to think, I got her at an intelligence office, too!" Browning's Magazine. Wyld I suppose your wife's will is law. Enpec Yes. and worst of It Is that she can't be bribed not to enforce it. Brook-' lyn Life. Ofd Beau Williams, are my', eyebrows on straight and is my wig properly crumped? Valet Yes, sir; but your chest, has slipped down a bit. Life. "My hero has a strong face," remarked the author. "He needs it," opined the critic. "I notice his face falls every time he meets the heroine." Kansas City Jour nal. "Talk about foresight V "Well?" "Old Gotrox left a thousand tons of coal in trust,, not to be touched until the youngest child is of age." Pittsburg Post. "A woman in New York says, 'much as I love the Stars and Stripes I love the red flag better.' She must be an anarchist." "Or in love with a railway crossing ten der." Houston Post. Father Why, when I was your age I didn't have as much money in a month as you spend in a day. Daughter Well, dad. don't scold me about it. Why didn't you talk to grandfather? Illustrated Bits. Baldwin The doctor says there are more than fifty kinds of headache. Do you be lieve it? Rambo-,1 know it. I've fre quently had all of 'em in one morning. Chicago Tribune. A woman thinks she is getting into so ciety when her name is printed as a patroness for a charity, and a man into politics when he's, asked to march in a campaign parade. New York Press. Karr What makes you think that you are going to succeed in business? BagSter Because my partner has $100,000. Somer vllle Journal. "What do you think of the simplified spelling?" "It would be all right, if it wasn't so hard to learn." Detroit Free Press. "Fellow-citizens." shouted the candidate, "If I am elected for this district I shall endeavor to make you glad that you did not elect another." "That's right!'' yelled the dry goods box philosopher, "I reckon one would be a-plenty." Puck. Mother I am sorry to hear that Tommy Smith tied a kettle to a poor dog's tail. You wouldn't do such a thing, would you? Bobby No, indeed, mother. Mother Why didn't you stop him, BoKby? Bobby I couldn't mother; I was holding the dog. Philadelphia Inquirer. "See here." said the tailor, as he headed the young man off, "do you cross the stroet every time you see me to keep from paying that bill you owe me?" "I should say not," replied the y. m. "Then why do you do it?" asked the knight of the tape. "To keep you from asking for it," an swered the other. Chicago News. Tailor There's nothing the matter with the fit ot those pants. Fat Man Well, they don't feel altogether comfortable. Tailor Not They may be a little tight across the er chest but we can remedy that. Tha Catholic Standard and Times. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. rFrom the Chicago Newa What's the matter with the tongue as aa express agent? The less a man tries to understand a woman the more he does. The winner in a political contest can ses the world is growing wiser. lGve a small boy a. piece of chalk and he will make his mark in the world. Every time a woman gets sick she won ders if she will look well as a corpse. Sympathy in the abstract makes no Im pression on a man with an empty stom ach. People don't think much of your opinion unless you happen to think as they do. One of the worst things about being single is that you are always in danger of being married. A doctor practices on his own patients, but an amateur musician practices on the patience of others. You'll never catch on if you don't try; and after catching on. don t be afraid to let go it necessary. During courtship a woman- builds a lot of air castles, but after marriage she does her dreaming at night. If a man could get himself talked about half as much as the weather does he would soon become famous or notorious. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. rFrom the Philadelphia Press. Shops are announcing fall openings. So are the chestnut burrs. The football player may be sluggish without being a slumrer. Many a woman puts everything on her back to make a good front. The value of experience Is only demon strated by the after effects. The things we get for nothing are gen erally the things we don't want. The autumn bride who goes away in a touring car is really an automobile bride. There isn't a great deal of difference between being called down and being shown up. Even the man who is laying up treas ures in heaven shouldn't allow his fire Insurance to lapse. Did you ever notice that the henpecked man does the most crowing when he Is away from home? "Contentment is better than riches ouoted the Wise Guy. "Yes. but give the average man the riches and he'll be con. tent." added the Simple Mus. Blobbs "I never saw such a sour-faced fellow as Grouchleigh." Slobbs "No. he looks as though he would rather crack a looklng-slass than a Joke." Wiggs "What happened to your auto mobile? It looks pretty well battered up." Wagg "I ran over a book agent the other day and struck him square on the cheek."

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