The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 12, 1909

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALFRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 12, 1S09. No Less More So Today we received 700 spring patterns, including the very latest London stripes and Glasco plaids. Our fashion plate for spring and summer has the latest pockets and cuffs. Two of these styles are the talk of NEW YORK. The Sophmore and the Dartmouth. FREE $5.00 FANCY VEST WITH EVERY SUIT OR OVERCOAT MADE TO ORDER NOW IS THE TIME. BIG BUILDING A WRECK. (Continued from Page One.) the entire force was at work almost simultaneously with the city depart ment The Santa Fe was a potent factor in saving the surrounding properties and building. The Loss Is Heavy. The loss on the stock of mer chandise owned by Parkhurst-Davis amounted to $210,000. Of this amount $110,000 was covered by- insurance. The building, which is a total loss, was owned by Joab Mulvane and was valued at $45,000, and carried $30,000 insurance. This would make the to tal loss over and above the insur ance $125,000. The damage to the surrounding buildings was light. The Topeka Cold Storage Ice Fuel company's plant was damaged to the extent of $500. The International Harvester com pany's plant in the Sells building which joined the ill-fated building on the north entailed a loss of about $300 to the building while the stock was injured by the falling water to the extent of $600. The Santa Fe had a box car a short distance northwest from the fire which was slightly burned. A car load of baled cotton was stacked on the ground near the Santa Fe's car and this was burned. CiJnd Was Large. From the time the alarm became general until the last roar of the fall ing walls had died away, and until the last blaze became a glowing ember, the crowd constantly gather ing, crowded close to the lines maintained by the police and watched the great spectacle, the counterpart of which many of them had witnessed five years previous. It would be im possible to estimate the number of people in the crowd. They flocked from all parts of the city. Residents in every section as soon as they were Informed of the location of the fire thronged the corner of First and Kansas avenue. As far as the human eye could see in any direction with the light of the burning building, peo ple crowded in to watch the destruc tion of the large building. The Rock Island depot was taxed to capacity. People thronged the upstair windows. Probably during the evening 10,000 witnessed the great fire.-. Mr. Davis Disconsolate. W. H. Davis, when seen by a State Journal reporter during the fire after the building was known to be a total loss, was in no frame of mind to make a prediction for the future. He talked but little when questioned by friends, while standing near the spot where Munson met his death, unconscious that the ruined building had taken one life with it. "I do not know how the fire start ed," said Mr. Davis. "It was in the upperhalf of the building, and even at the time I got there had not spread over the entire house. I could see, from the sudden spurts of the flames that the gas was feeding the blaze, and I immediately requested the gas company to shut off the supply. I was told that the gas company would do nothing of the kind. Some men were sent down here to cut off the supply at the building, and one of them was killed by the collapse of that wall. I understand that the gas supply can be cut oft by districts, in the city, and that is what I wanted them to do. Under the circumstances, I think It would have been nothing more than right for the company to cut off the entire city for a few min utes and give these firemen a chance." While Mr. Davi3 was talking, four streams of water were playing on the fire in the part of the .building near him, but the gas blaze was in no way diminished. This was after the fire, fed by the escaping gas, had been burning more than two hours, and un known to the spectators, who crowded about by thousands, John Munson lay dead upon a pile of red hot brick. "I do not know yet that we will re build," said Mr. Davis, while sorrow fully reflecting on the loss of two large building on the same site, "We did not Keep a night watchman. We had one at the time of our fire five years ago and ha did no good. Since we have re built we have employed the special night policeman, Anderson. It was he NOW SHOWING NEW SPRING GOODS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Suits, Overcoats, flats, Shoes, Manhattan Shirts We Invite Your Inspection 629-631 f liiiyliuil if Ifil iuilulLL No ffifl C- No More si -11 Less We surprise the world with this price. REMEMBER these are are the same as you pay your regular tailor $25.00 and $30.00 for. 532 Kansas Avenue who I think sounded the alarm and who telephoned to me." Mr. Treleaven Explains. Manager L. G. Treleaven of the lo cal gas company, said after the fire that the reason the request of Mr. Da vis was not granted, was that ha asked for all the gas in the city to be shut off during the fire. This would have been dangerous to the public safety, Mr. Treleaven asserted, coming as it would without the slightest warning. As soon as the real nature of the trou ble was known, Manager Treleaven ordered Munson and Jones to shut off the valve where the city main led Into the building. The falling of the walls was attended by great crashes. The east end of the south wall was the first to fall. The brick and debris buried Munson. A lit tle later the south end of the walls on the Kansas avenue side of the building fell to the ground. About fifteen min utes later, the extreme west end of the south walls fell. This was attended by the greatest report and the ground shook for several blocks around. The falling of the walls and the In tense heat was responsible for many of the electric wires in the vicinity being torn to the ground. All danger from this source however was removed by the Edison company and the city elec tric light plant who shut off all the current from this end of town. That the Sells building on the north of the Parkhurst-Davis building was saved was due to the good' work of the fire department. As soon as the danger became threatening at this point. Chief vv ilmarth ordered tne aerial truck up to the roof and several of the firemen carried a hose up the ladder to the roof, which was directed on the flames with telling effect. One of the big "Siamese" streams attached to the steamer reached far above this build ing and the water was directed high in the air and allowed to fall on the blaze. Destroyed Five Years Ago. It is a remarkable coincidence that the same firm should suffer total de struction by fire at two different times within one day of five years apart. The fire on the early morn of February 13, 1904, was quite similar to the big con flagration of last night. The former fire started at 2:26 a. m. the alarm being turned in by Patrol man Frank Asher. then a member of the police force. The fire was well started, presumably by the explosion of chemicals, and was well under head way before the department was noti fied. The total loss was $413,000. At that time, the Parkhurst-Davis stock was totally destroyed, the McCormick Harvester company suffered material ly. The William Schick branch house was badly scorched, the Rock Island passenger station received damages. the Parkhurst-Davis building was a to tal ruin and the Topeka Ice company lost heavily. The main trouble In fighting the fire at that time was found In the water pressure which at one time during the fire reached the low mark of five pounds. With these conditions. Chief Wilmarth and his men were unable to cope with the fire. The temperature on that night was but a few degrees above zero. The wa ter froze to the firemen, and falling upon the ground the water froze, mak ing a slippery fighting ground for the nre department. Despite the cold weather, and the early morning hour, several thousand people were awakened and left their homes to watch the big building and its contents devoured by the fire. John Munson Died In Line of Duty. Thinking that he was doing a duty to the fruitless work of the fighting firemen, thinking that he was acting in accordance with the order of his company, and thinking of nothing but nis duty, jonn jviunson, nignt watcn raan in the employ of the Consumers' Light, Heat Power company lost his life last night at three minutes of twelve, his body being mangled be neath the falling bricks and timbers which at one time constituted the third and fourth floors of the south side of the burning building. John Munson and the foreman of the gas plant. H. P. Jones, approached the south side of the building a few minutes before midnight to cut off the gas lead which was valved just under the platform. A big flame twenty feet high and spouting like a volcano was Issuing from this point where the big main into the building had broken. If Kansas jdvenve Sore J jj Less 1 NEVER BE THE LAST TO BUY World's Largest Tailors HARRY MILLER, Mgr. this main could be closed the gas sup ply all -over the building would have been stopped and the combat between the deadly gas and the firemen would have ended in favor of the fire fighters. When these two men walked to the valve shielding their faces from the intense heat of the burning structure and the spitting gas flame there was a breathless suspense on the part of the thousands of people who were watch ing every movement made by the men. Then the firemen closed in behind them covering them with sheets of water and helping them in every way possible to do their perilous, duty. Munson reached the valve first and lying on his stomach he crawled to the edge of the tracks which run along beside the platform closely followed by Jones. The two men had reached in under the platform and had suc ceeded in giving the valve one turn to the right. Jones was crouching on one knee and Munson was lying with arms outstretched. Suddenly a lightning like crack ap peared in the hot wall, the inside floors and rafters broke loose from their support and with a crash that shook the very river bottom, two stories, the third and the fourth, broke loose from the dizzy heights and came down with a deafening roar, followed by a volcanic eruption of flames. sparks, burning timbers and smoke. For a second the awe stricken thou sands stood breathless with wonder and the smoke and debris hid the fire men from view. When it had cleared up a man was lying across the Rock Island tracks twenty-five feet away from the heated ruins stunned and un conscious. Amid the uproar he was carried In the depot nearby and given iresn aia ana water. This man was H. P. Jones, the foreman of the gas plant, who had accompanied his watchman to the fatal valve. In the midst of the wild scramble for safety and the scattering of firemen, hose and fire lines John Munson was forgotten. The firemen were the only ones who were aware of his work near the plat form as the spectators behind the po lice fire ropes had lost sight of him when the firemen had closed behind him with the hose and water. In the straightening of the hose lines and the recovering of their equilibrium the fire fighters had forgotten the two men and the work of quenching the flames was continued. The hot walls had fallen in a mass crushing the steel covered platform to the basement and piling high the debris it had fallen In such a manner that the first track near the building was covered with brick and steel. The roar of 1flA tnna of brick could be heard all over the city and the earth shook like a minia ture earthquake. And when the mass of onlookers commented on the sure death of anyone who might be under such an avalanche they little imagined that John Munson was a martyr and was under those white heated bricks bleeding and burning nobodv k whether he suffered or whether he wa knocked unconscious and his life ebbed away wunout nis knowledge. In fact the unfortunate man was not found to oe missing until nis companion who had been carried to the Rock Island depot was revived. When Jones re gained consciousness he jumped to his feet and with his eyes wild with horror he gasped: Missed by Jones. "My God. men. where Is .Tnhn'-i,!! you found him did he get out of it Oh God, men find him quick," and he fell into the arms of his rescuers in a fain spell. The alarm was spread at once and under the orders of Chief of Police Eaton four policemen and five firemen risked their lives beneath the tottering walls, clearing away the heated hHMra with their bare hands, frantiraiiv hunting for the man who was buried under the debris. The search lasted for over a half hour, the men working until their hands bled from th ev,on bricks and the cutting steel.' At 22 minutes or i a fireman who was work ing by himself just west of the blaz ing gas furnace Jumoed hn ck with a cry of horror and turning his baked face to the brave men working at his side he gasped: Here he is, boys, here he is." And he stood looking at the hlnnd natr. ed face of John Munson, peering ghost like out of the mass of brick, his black hair smeared with blood and dirt and his mouth drawn ud In nain. Th rost ers stood for a few seconds stunned by the ghastly fearful sight and then as a man they tore away the bricks and timbers and felt of his body, still warm with the rapidly flowing blood and the heat of his fiery grave. His left hand was burned until nothing wan left hut a stub to the crouch of the thumb On his head was an ugly gash and his skull was fractured. It was from this blow that he receivedhis death nn. doubtedly. His blue overalls and his boots were not burned or even scorch ed and his black felt hat was just un der his head, filled with blood and cut into a number of .slits by the falling brick. Carried Into the Depot. He was carried to the Rock Is lji nd depot by the officers while the nolice forced a passageway through the horror-stricken crowd. The doors of the depot were locked and the coroner. Dr. Keith was called. Meanwhile a frantic appeal for a physician was made through the vast crowds and taken up and echoed around the block, up and down Kansas avenue and even down in to the Rock Island yards. There did not seem to be a doctor in the big crowd and while the men were each try ing to test the poor man's pulse, Ray R. Ufford, a medical student from the Washburn medical school volunteerd his knowledge and bending over the man's body he placed his ear to the still heart. Not a throb was felt and other tests were used but with no avail. The few officers and firemen who stood around the body waited in silence for the ver dict of theyoung student and when he finally completed his examination and shook his head in sorrow the big brawny men turred their faces to the side and muttered a word of sorrow ana a word of Braver. It was a touch ing scene and the seriousness of it could not dawn upon the men until Dr. xvcjlh arrived and cave the otneiai an nouncement of th man' lifeless body, Lo-ivcii bi once to me amuuiauvc ana an inquest was held today. Leaves Family of live Children. A death-like solemnity fell over the anxious crowds who were crowding around the depot for blocks trying to hear the first piece of information and in a iew minutes the thousands ot spec tators broke up in groups and lines and plodded homeward to all parts of the city thoughtfully and sorrowfully. It is a bad blow to the city to endure such a loss of property and such a loss oi employment tor so many employes but when a human beine is sacrificed and a sad family is deprived of its fatherly love and care the loss is felt more keenly and sinks deeper into the nearts ot a sympathizing city. John Munson lived -at 285 Arter ave nue, Oakland, and he is survived by a wife and five small children, ranging all tne way from the age of 2 to 10 years. He was 36 years old and joined the woodmen but a few days ago. Water Pressure Good. The water pressure during the fire was good very good. It started out at 150 pounds-from the water plant and 110 pounds in the city. Naturally when the steamers were attached and the fire plugs for blocks around were put Into use the gauge showed a loss at the fire headquarters. But this loss was on the city side of the fire and up to the lines of hose the pressure could not 'have been better. The Harrison street station was not used at all and the big pumps out at the waterworks did yeoman service. The lowest pres sure of the evening was 60 pounds and this quickly jumped up to an av erage of 95 pounds. The two fire en gines were used each throwing two streams of water and seven single di rect pressure streams were played on the fire from the time of the first con nection. This is a hard drain on the water mains, but they held out In fine shape. The streams from the steamer reached to the top floors of the struct ure and the first streams threw a good stream into the second and third story windows. The aerial truck was hoisted at the northeast corner of the building on Kansas avenue and stayed here un til the walls threatened to fall. Four men remained on this ladder during the entire time and it was through their efforts that the fire was held in check thus saving the International building on the north. Superintendent Shaw of the water department was seen several times during the fire and he was well pleased with the flow of water. He said: "I don't see what else could be expected tonight. If it was not for that gas and the terrific spread and range of the fire I am sure that it could have been stopped. With the exception of the work of the firemen in saving the international Harvester building just north of the Parkhurst-Davis structure, the pluck iest fight of -the evening was on top of the power house of the Topeka Cold Storage Ice Fuel company, just west of the hottest part of the fire. The lit tie breeze from the east blew the heat, the sparks and the burning timbers on top of the cold storage plant and when the fire had broken through the roof of the P-D building it looked as though the frame ventilators towering five stories Into the air would eaten fire at any moment and the whole power house and storage plant with its thousands of dollars worth of equipment would "be wiped out. At first men with buckets and sacks mounted the roof of the building and quenched the numerous blazes "in this manner, but soon the. heat became so fierce that in a hundred places the wood commenced to smoke and smoulder and a touch of fire would have thrown the whole thing into one big blaze. A small hose was stretched to the top of the building and two men kept It playing on the different parts of the roof as they would break out into a blaze. Later the firemen ran two lines of hose to the scene and by constant soaking and sprinkling they saved the plant. W. w. weDD, repre senting one of the insurance compan ies that holds the insurance on the ice plant, was wild with Joy when the building was safe at last. His com panies lost considerable on the Parkhurst-Davis building, but they consid ered themselves lucky to escape from the Topeka ice plant adjoining. While the men were working on the roof and in through the galleries of the plant a portion of the Parkhurst-Davis wall fell to the ground tearing out the elec tric wiring. This left the building in darkness and the men depended upon the blazing building for light. In accordance with the governor's request that churches observe Lin coln Day with appropriate services, First Church of Christ, Scientist, cor ner of Polk and Huntoon streets, will hold a special service, to which all are cordially invited, Friday evening, Feb ruary 12th, at 8 o'clock. Subject, "Freedom." Oakland in 3Iournlng. Mr. Munson has been in the employ of the gas company for nine years. He has been night watchman for six years. All of Oakland is in mourning over his death. He was one of the most popular men of the place. He leaves a wife and five children, three girls and two boys. The oldest girl is about 9 years of age. The girls are Virginia, Julia, and Alice. The boys are Tom and John. His parents are living in Scandia. The Munsons have lived in Oakland for several years. Mr. Munson was born in Republic county, April 19, 1874. He was married in Oakland some twelve years ago to a Miss Han son. He was a member of the North Topeka I. O. O. F. and was insured for about $2,000. Mrs. Munson has lost both a hus band and mother by fire. About five years ago, her mother was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her home at Chester and Center streets in Oakland. The Munson house is fairly well fur nished and gives evidence of the thrift of its occupants. The scene at the home this morning was pathetic in the extreme. The younger children of the family seemed to realize the loss of their father as well as Mrs. Munson. The little ones sobbed continually with their grief stricken mother. "Papa's gone. Oh, our papa's gone!" they cried, while sympathizing neigh bors tried to comfort them. Jones Is Not Badly Hurt. Harry P. Jones who miraculously escaped death from the falling walls while working alongside of his fellow workman, John Munson, who was killed, is not as seriously injured as was at first supposed and was at the scene of the fire this morning. He was struck a glancing blow on the side of the head .by falling brick and a hole was torn in the right side of his face near his nose. His most serious injuries however were occasioned by a glancing blow from the falling wall which struck him on the right side injuring his chest and right leg. He does not know how he escaped the fate of his companion who was crushed to death and buried under the falling wall. "We knew about where the cut-off was located," said Mr. Jones, "but the box was under water and it took us several moments to find its exact loca tion. We had inserted our wrench and given It a twist but the valve turned hard. We were tugging at it when the wall fell without warning. "If-any one -called -to us of our danger, we did not hear them. We were working in water over shoe top deep and the roar- of -the flames, snorting of the steamers and swish of the streams of water were such that we could not have heard a cry of warning if one had been given. The smoke was so dense that it was im- pof.Sl?le to see the toP of building. The first thing that I remember of I was stumbling and falling away from the building and there was a sense of a mighty force impelling me. I suppose that the falling wall struck me in such a way that it threw me from the place of danger for I was in reality thrown twenty feet away and onto the Rock Island tracks. "It was a close call and luck was with me or I would have been killed, for if I made an effort to escape it I do not know of it. There was a deafening crash and I picked myself up twenty feet or more from where I was working. I was so dazed that I can hardly tell how it all hap pened." John Munson who was killed did not suffer a fractured skull as was at first supposed but his entire right side was crushed and the ribs torn lose. There is a bad cut on the back of his head and the fingers on his right hand were burned away. The left side of his face and head were bruised as was his entire body. After viewing the remains Coroner Keith announced that he did not believe that the neces sity for an inquest exists and none will be held. Chief Wilmarth Active. Chief Wilmarth whs alwavs In the hot test places during the conrlagration. A state journal reporter attempted to follow him around and watch his tactics but naturally the trail was not followed very consistently. When the fire first broke out he dashed into the building followed closely by his men. Not until the intense smoke and gas drove him out did he leave and then he was not content to remain outside the building, but would dive first into one door and then Into another. At one time he was fighting on the second tioor wnen tne names burst through the 1 iiili t 'ft V .1-1 i "-V' s'i ''&l ri'n K -.f Jtf t xrk'x 5 'f. I 1 Iri. Guy Standing as "Charley Steel" In "The Right of Way.' ceiling above himself and men and he was forced to retire rather hurriedly the ceiling falling down and the gas ex ploding just arter ne nad lert tne room. When asked concerning the fire he said, between orders to his men and between the small opening that separated his face from the sides of his hat: I think that everything possible was done by the men tonight. The fire was simply too great for the companies and our equipment and our force was not ade quate. Every foot of hose in the city was used and we had plenty of water to use through it. The fire was too much for us especially since it. was fed by some thing other than woodwork and boxes it must have been gas. Ana l ratner ihuik that if the f ir -had not trained so much headway before we received the alarm we would have been able to control it. But I am satisfied with the work of the men and can think of no manner in which we could have saved the building. The death of John Munson was a. most unfortunate and sad affair and I will always regret the death of the brave man." Railroad Loss Is Small. The railroad companies were rather ror tunate in their losses. Generally there are any number of cars standing on the "kitchen" tracks on the south and west sides of the building but last night a Rock. Island switch engine succeeded in pulling out the cars standing in the track just south of the building. This car was used as an aerial by the firemen until it grew dangerous and then the yard mas tw nripwfi ihp triors from the track. It was thoughtful and accommodating of the Rock Island officials to leave these cars at this point as it undoubtedly was a great aid to the firemen. However, there were three coal cai-s, loaded, and one empty box car on the tracks just west of the burning building. A line of hose laid across the track and the Rock Island al lowed the cars to remain there rather than disturb the hose. As a result the coal cars were badly scorched and the box car caught fire four or five times and one side was burned out. It was ex tinguished by the chemical. Police Helped Firemen. The police, under their chief. R. W. Eaton, kept the fire ropes stretched in mighty good form and tne whole day and night force" was given the "riot call" for the purpose of handling the crowds. Every one in Topeka who was awake and who could, possibly visit the conflagration was on the scene and long lines of faces pack ed the streets from the Melan bridge south as far as First street and west down to the Rock Island freight house. In the east yards the box cars and engines KrMittert with onlookers. The live electric light wires that fell to the ground continually and the danger of falling walls made it necessary ior ins iwncc ivcj a ctrirt ii-utrh nn the nushine: excited crowd3. A rope was stretched for blocks and a policeman was stationed every few yards. The police helped the firemen to a great extent also, and Chief Eaton is to be congratulated on the performance of his men. Conditions Favorable'. The fire was a fortunate one in many respects. In the first place there was not a sign of a gale of any kind especially tha it-inri thflt hn hpfn Rweeninsr Topeka during the last week or so. A gentle breeze from the southeast drove the smoke and sparke over on to the Topeka Cold Storage, Ice and Fuel company plant and drooped huge burning brands upon the International building. Piles of railroad ties and bales of excelsior were burned just west of the fire but the loss was slight. If there had been a gaie the whole collection of buildings in this dis trict would have been burned. A breeze from the north would have leaped over' into the Rock Island depot, thence to the Chesterfield hotel and on up Kansas ave- nue. It is hard to tell what would have happened then. Another lucky condition of the weather wai the temperature. The nignt was warm not cold enough to freeze the water that ran through the streets. A zero night resembling the last few nights would have Incapacitated the fire men until their fight would have been at tempted suicide. The fire pressure was good. Five years ago at this fire it waa down below ten pounds. Last night it never dropped below 60 pounds. Another lucky incident connected with the fire was the close escape of a company of firemen who were working on the Kansas avenue side. They were closing in on the building when the third and fourth inside floors fell with a crash. This weakened the big wall and first swaying from side to slrte it slowly tottered Into the street. The firemen saw it just in time and they made a leap for safety. Some of them ten and half leaping and half crawling they got out of range of the flying bricks. Had $25,000 Worth of Sugar. An interesting business proposition has been found since the fire lust night. The Parkhurst-Davis company have been buy ing up sugar for the last few months since it has been priced low and it was known throughout the state that they practically had a "corner" on the sugar market. All of this immense amount of sugar was stored In the third floor of the building and it was being prepared for shipment. It is estimated that there was $25,000 worth of sugar in the building at the time. It made a fierce fire and the flames from the sugar were especially spectacular on account of their extreme redness. Only One "Bromo Quinine" That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look for the signature "of E. W. Grove. Used the world over to cure a cold in one day. 25c RIGHT OrWAY TONIGHT. Play One of the Greatest of Recent Productions. One of the most successful stage productions of recent years is "The Right of Way," the dramatic version by Eugene W. Presbrey of Sir Gilbert Parker's famous novel. The play was produced in the east last year and is now in the west for the first time. "The Right of Way" will be seen to- night and Saturday with a Saturday matinee. The same company played in Kansas City in November, a week's engagement, and made such' a tre mendous hit that a return engagement of a week at the Willis Wood was played In January. Of the two lead ing characters, Guy Standing as Charley Steele and Theodore Roberts as Joe Portugais, Frank A. Marshall, dramatic critic of the Kansas City Journal, said: "Mr. Standing, an actor of fine at tainments, begins his characteriza tion of Steele with one of the most vivid bits of character portrayal the stage has known. The scintillating cynicism, the whimsical, sardonic bit terness, of Steele, the man of splen did intellect but morally unmoored, drifting on a turbulent sea of what Is after all the tragic cheapness of the most sophistical of abnormal creeds, stands out clearly throughout the first two acts. Mr. Standing enlivens the picture with flashes of bitingly grim humor which reveal the terrible seriousness of Steele's under nature. "Hardly second to Mr. Standing's portrayal of the central role is the magnificent piece of character work done by Theodore Roberta as Joe Portugais, the rough-hewn French Canadian riverman, swayed by the primitive passions, delving into no psychological depths, unhappy only as he is made the victim of the animal triangle, otherwise faithful, in his dog-like way, contented and true hearted. Mr. Roberts amply sustains his reputation as the greatest charac ter actor of our stage and his audience last night paid him the un- I r n -4 I -y 'ttt 5 "K- fW i A, v- v 's X CELLO Is the name of the new Shirt we are handling. The prices are $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 The name is yery appropriate, as they EXCEL all others for FIT and WEAR We are exclusive agents NEW SPRING LINE HAS ARRIVED The 602 Kansas This Store Quits Marshall Bros. Drug Company,- now located at 5th and Kansas ave., have leased our store room and will take pos session just as soon as we can dispose of this stock of shoes and get out. The entire stock of Boots, Shoes, Oxfords. Slippers and Rubber goods located at 615 Kansas ave., will be closed out at Bargain prices. Our new spring styles have just been received. See the show window display. Everything goes In this closing out sale at Bargain prices. Nothing Reserved The entire stock goes, here are some of the prices: Men's $4, $5 and $6 Q CZf Shoes at pO.OU Men's $3.50 and $4 O OP Shoes at.. .0J Men's $3.00 ty Shoes at.................. Men's $1.75 1 OP Shoes at iJ Men's $1.50 1 "t f Shoes at............. lalvf Ladies' $4 and $5 O Crt Shoes at.. Ladies' $3.50 and $4 OP Shoes at 'OJ Ladies' $3.00 O OC Shoes at Men's $2.50 O ff Shoes at VU Ladies' $2.50 -t QC Shoes at ,10J Ladies' $1.75 Ofi Shoes at I'M Ladles' $1.50 1 1 It Shoes at J.O Boys' $3.00 O OP Shoes at Bays' $2.50 O f( Shoes at Boys' $2.00 I Shoes at Boys' $1.50 1 1C Shoes at Girls' $2.00 Shoes 165 Girls' $1.75 Shoes J Girls' $1.50 J 25 Infants' $1.50 Shoes QQ-at..-

Infants' $1.25 Shoes 75c Infants 85c Shoes 60c Infants 25c Moccasins 10c NOTICE I have leased the room at 515 Kansas now occupied by The Shoe Co., to Marshall store Ave., Ellet Bros., Drug Co. (Signed.) FRANK KLINGERMAN. Agent. ELLET JOHN L r.l .1 .r. I HENRY u SHOE CO. 515 Kansas Avenue. usual tribute of interrupting him sev eral times with spontaneous applause at his great acting. Hi Portugais is the most notable of his many sue cesses." ROYAL VISIT ENDS. King and Queen of England Leave Berlin for Home. Berlin, Feb. 12. King Edward an Queen Alexandra left here for London at 5 o'clock this afternoon after a visit of four days in the German capital. They were accompanied to the railroad station by the emperor and the empress and their military suites and Prince Henry of Punsia. The leave taking was affectionate, his majesty kissing the emperor three times on the cheek. Everybody reads the State Journal. Avenue Toggery

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4 THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE J OUItlTAIr FBIDA Y EVENING FEBRUARY 12, 1S09. TOPEKi' STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAO LENWA!. Entered July 1. 1875. aa aecond-claaa matter at the poatoffice at TopeJta. ft, an,. u act or conxreu.i .VOLUME XXXVI ...No. 37 Official Stat Paper. Official Paper City at Topeka. TERMS OB" SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier. M eenta a week to any part of Topeka. or nourM. or at the same price in n as town where the paper h" a carrier By malt one year 2 By mail, three months. -zj. gatarday edition of daily, one year... Buajness Office f" 5 Business Office 12 Reporters' Boom g fVank P. MacLernian ...Ind- WW PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal bunding. J and 5J Kansas avenue, corner of Bifrmn. New Tor Office: Flattron building. M Twenty-thlrd street, corner Fifth avenue t Broadway. Paul Block. manager. Chicago Office: Hartford building. Paul Block. mnnfr. TJi LEASED WTRR RFPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRTTRS The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the fun day telegraph report of that great newa or ranlsation for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received in The State Jour pal building over wires for this sole pur Pe. ,The vigor of the British army -will probably be increased materially from now on. Its officers and men are to be fed for the next three years, at lest, on American beef. No wonder Spain has not made much progress as a nation. A recent census In that country shows that two thirds of the Spanish people can neither read nor write.. Kansans ought to be thankful that their stats is not in the northwest which has just experienced the worst blizzard that has visited that section of the country In twenty years. President-elect Taft Is safely back from the dangers of the sea on his trip to and from Panama only to face what ethers may well look upon as a greater dancer an alligator steak dinner. Surely those folks are of the most optimistic stripe who thought that a Kansas senate would help out the Standard Oil company to any extent by reducing oil Inspection fees or In any other way. Regardless of the fact that more bills have already been presented to the legislature than could possibly be given careful consideration In several months time, the legislators continue to Introduce new measures daily in great batches. King Edward and Emperor William met In Berlin not long ago, embraced and each kissed the other on the cheek. But this does not signify that the na tion of either would not be delighted to wipe the other off the face olthe earth If a good opportunity was af forded. a While the legislature Is engaged in making more stringent the provisions f the prohibitory law it should not miss the opportunity of inserting a provision In the law which will forbid the advertising of liquor and beer In newspapers and also the display of uch advertising on bill boards. A number of prominent theatrical mangers in New York are out with the announcement that because of the trend toward the production of inde cent shows they are In favor of the establishment of a stage censorship. This seems to be a matter that the managers could regulate of their own volition If they had the desires. Congressman Ralney Is the latest recruit to the National Ananias club. There will soon be such a distinguished company in this organization that others of less note will be tempted to do or say something which will give them the privilege of associating with the renowned galaxy of celebrated 'Americans who have thus far been so signally honored. Former Kansans are playing parts of distinction In professional and busi ness circles In New York, and It would appear that New York has been some what generous In reciprocating. Three former New Yorkers, at. least, are prominent now in the Kansas legisla ture and the number of other former New Yorkers In. the state Is probably quite large. They might well form a Ivew York society of Kansas. Another of the great victories of peace has been won by President Roosevelt with the aid of Governor Gillett and other patriots in California. The defeat of another of the pieces of legislation aimed against the Japs and which was particularly obnoxious to the Japanese government, 'as it vio lated a feature of the treaty agree ment between, Japan and the United States, was the only proper course for a majority of the California legislators to take. Hutchinson's bid to become the home of the state fair ought not to be helped along much by the findings of the special master appointed by the supreme court to take the testmony in the ouster proceedings begun by the state against the city and its promi nent officials. He found that these offi cials and the city practically connived at violations of the prohibitory law in assessing fines against saloons, joints and houses of ill-repute .which were practically a system of licensing them to do business. A city controlled by such men, who are presumed to be representative of the entire popula tion, can surely not set up a good claim that it is a proper place for the holding of a state exposition. Mr. Schenck, the Shawnee county at torney, has started off on a new tack in his crusade against druggists who are evidently in the business only for the purpose of making money through. the sale of whisky and beer. He has asked forthe revocation of a permit because the druggist, although he com plied with the letter of the law In selling it only to men who signed ap plication blanks' for it, actually vio lated the law in that he made sales to persons whom he was reasonably cer tain .wanted the liquor for other pur poses than those set out in the applica tion -for It. This proceeding calls to mind a case famous In the criminal annals of the east where a man was convicted of perjury because it was proven to the satisfaction of a jury that when he answered a question at another criminal trial with "I dont re member," he told a lie. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Abraham Lincoln, the great emanci pator and' martyred president, was born one hundred years ago today.' On this centenary anniversary of his birth magnificent tributes are being paid' to his memory, and rightly so, for he is now looked upon as having been one of the truly great men that the world has produced. Assuredly Is he one of the greatest, if not the greatest who has been born, and lived and died in this land. There Is but one other man to share this honor with him George Washington. To the activities and abilities of Washington are due the credit of establishing these United States, and to the pewer and persis tence of Lincoln are due their preser vation. And It is for this reason that the prominent and discerning men of the south today are uniting their voices in the praise that is being sounded throughout the country to Abraham Lincoln. They have realized at last, as did Lincoln, that the great question which was fought out In the civil war was not as to whether the negroes should be freemen or slaves in this land. It was whether or not the states should be held together In an indivlsable union. They see now that Lincoln's gigantic task was a work well done, that the nation must have been j saved by him If it was to endure and probably all of them are of a mind with Colonel Henry Watterson, who in a fitting manner has said: "With respect to Abraham Lincoln. T, as a Southern man and a Confeder ate soldier, here render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, even as I would render unto God the things that are God's. He was lnSDlred of God. for nowhere else could he have acquired that wisdom and virtue. Where did Shakespeare get his genius. Mozart his music? Who wrote the lyric of the Scotch peasant? As God raised up and inspired them, so did he Lincoln. When, a thousand years hence, tho truth of history shall have left no room to doubt, no drama will be followed with deeper feeling than that which tells the story of his life and death. God laid his hands upon thesfe rough hewn" logs.v and they brought forth a nation's hero." No man ever lived probably who was more a self made man than Abraham Lincoln. Not a circumstance of life favored the development he reached. He unconsciously told of this once when he said to a friend: "My early history Is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy. 'The short and simple annals of the poor.' Lincoln was a child-like man. On this point one of his prominent bio graphers has written that no man of modern days has been fortunate enough to carry Into his manhood so much of the directness, truthfulness, and simplicity of childhood as distin guished him. He was exactly what he seemed. A religious man, also, was Lincoln. This fact may be stated without any reservation with only an explanation. He believed in God, and in His person al supervision of the affairs of men. He believed himself to be under His con trol and guidance. He believed In the power and ultimate triumph of the right, through his belief in God. Coupling these characteristics of Lincoln, which have been but briefly sketched, with the well-known record of his wonderful achievements, and it is possible to form an estimate, faint though It may be, of the greatness of the man. His life and his work should be a fruitful field for study and emula tion by every human being of this age. They cannot help but profit by it and the general celebration of the cente nary of his birth at this time, bringing forcibly to the public mind as it does everything which Is connected with Lincoln's name cannot fail to be of immeasurable benefit to the people of the nation. As William H. Taft, the president-elect once said: "One cannot read of Abraham Lin coln without loving him. One cannot think of his struggles, of his life and Its tragic end, without weeping. One cannot study his efforts, his conscience, his heroism, his patriotism, and the burdens of bitter attack and calumny under which he suffered, and think of the place he now occupies in the his tory of this country, without a moral inspiration of the most stirring and In tense character." Goodness, gracious! Think of the possibility of a war between the re public of Panama and. the United States. His eminence, Jose D. de Obaldia, the president of Panama, is affronted at the remarks made con cerning him by .Congressman Ralney In his recent speech on the floor of the house of representatives. Regardless of the fact that President Roosevelt has hastily told Jose that this country is not responsible for anything that the members of congress may say in debate. It is possible that Panama and her president may never be satisfied until they attempt to wipe out the Insult with blood. The mere thought of an assault on this country by Pana ma Is too terrible for much contemplation. JOURNAL ENTRIES Why Is It that a person always has a lot of things he doesn't want? A stitch In time may save nine but It more often saves a reputation. It is, not, possible for all men-to be great but everyone Is able- to- be as great as he possibly can.

Is it pardonable for a fellow to get mad when he unexpectedly comes in contact with-a pin in a glri's belt? This getting up when the sun is ris ing is nothing much to brag over be cause it keeps on rising untH'noon. J A YHA WKER JOTS In the report of a good roads meet ing held in Linn county the other day one newspaper said: "Not many at tended because of the bad roads." Newton has become ambitious and enterprising in her old age, says the Salina Journal, and is going to do a lot of paving this year, thus following the example qf Abilene and Welling ton and other towns which are tired of dirt roads. The Downs News says its town is growing so fast that it is impossible 1 H Iwi O Captain, my Captain, our fearful trip is done I Tha tjtf s has weathered every rack; the prise we sought if won; The pert Is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting. While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart, heart, heart. O ihe bleeding drops of red. Where on te deck' my Captain- lies. Fallen cold and dead! to build school houses fast enough there to accommodate the new pupils. Just about the time a man suc ceeds in accumulating all the money he wants, the alarm clock gets busy and wakes him up, says the clever Ottawa Herald. Answering the request of an anxious reader to know how many poets it has, the Hutchinson News makes re ply that it has poets to burn, and that the fires are soon to be lighted. The Fontana News has suspended publication. The editor printed a farewell statement in which he said that the best he could do m that town was to make ends meet, and he could see no fun at that. This is an actual fact: One of the rural mail carriers out of Osborne found the following note from a young lady in one of tho boxes on his route: "Please leave my male in this box." Osborne Farmer. The curfew no longer rings at Junction City, having been abandoned because it was considered "a country town habit." At the same time Coffeyville recently adopted it, which shows how municipal minds can vary. Salina Journal. During the trial of a case in Hia watha recently Attorney Kerrigan was addressing the jury, and in the midst of an eloquent plea exclaimed: "Why, gentlemen of the jury, history shows but one parallel of perfidy, and that is where Christ was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver and crucified on Mount Calvary." Just at that mo ment the court said: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Kerrigan, but your time is up." Then Attorney Newlon broke into the game, saying: "Your Honor, allow Mr. Kerrigan time to get down from Mount Calvary." KANSAS COMMENT ITS THE SAME EVERYWHERE. Professor Blackmar of the state university -i has come forward with a theory that, the object of the jail and penitentiary is to reform, a criminal aa well as. to protect society. Thia Idea is not new but has been advanced for many years. If IoIa.and Allen county should take seriously to this view there would be some changes-in. the handling .of her prisoners. When a criminal pt the worst kind, is arrested he is of course placed in the county jail. He may be1 a murderer of the most hardened and vicious type. His place is no doubt In jail or in the pen itentiary, but when.; a misguided boy of tender years, gets drunk for the first time or does some slight misde meanor, he too is placed in the same jail and '"by force, of circumstances comes in contact with the hardened criminal. The story is an old one, but the boy comes out of the jail often worse for having been put in. Yet this is going on in spite- of the fact that few people uphold the system. lola Record. FAVOR THE PRISON TWINE. The board of directors of the state penitentiary -in r- fixing the price of prison twine has as usual put it below the selling price of the trust product. According to announcement It will be 7 cents for lots of 5,000 lb, and over and 7 Ms cents for smaller orders. It should be understood that the trust price in Kansas is not what it is in adjoining states where the twine man ufacturers have a mohoply. There is is several cents higher than here, and the trust has made the concession to Walt Whitman. 1809 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1909. Kansas consumers simply in competi tion. Anyone who will take the trou ble to learn the facts will find out that the penitentiary binding plant saves the farmers of Kansas thousands of dollars a year, both through its own moderate selling price and through compelling the trust to reduce its charges for this commodity. Fort Scott Republican. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record.3 All plays, are Improbable; lots of them are Impossible. Some fellows wouldn't be satisfied to do nothing unless they got paid for doing it. Nearly every man has a pet griev ance that he begins to spring after the third drink. It's all right to have taking ways, but they ought to be mixed with bring-ing-back ways. No, Maude, dear; the ball of the foot is not considered in selecting -candidates for a football team. A wedding may be said to go off without a hitch when the fellow who is to be hitched doesn't show up. Tommy "Pop, what is fiction?" Tommy's Pop "Fiction, my son, is merely a love story that ends happily." Many a girl longs to be an angel and wear a halo Just for the sensation of trying on a new kind of headdress. She "Don't you think there ought to be a tax on bachelors?" He -"Sure. We have to pay a tax on most of the other luxuries.-" ji lt's the girl with a sunny disposition who casts her rivals in the shade. Love may be blind, but it is seldom deaf and, dumb. LV THE ATTIC. Her form was bent, her bead was gray, Her face was lined with care. As to the atitc, yesterday. She climbed the creaking stair. Her dim eyes searched throughout the room, Past all the antique junk. Until she found there, in the gloom, A small, old-fashioned trunk. With trembling hands she Opened it," And one by one slie took Its treasures forth a faded bit Of silk a yellow book. Her' wedding gown; Jane's sampler and The quilt she'd never use And then she finds with groping hand, Two tiny, battered shoes! She clasps them with convulsive grip; Her voice comes, thin and flat "He hid 'em here, the little rip! "I'll tan him good for that!" Cleveland Leader. Curious French Justice. The Seine assizes jury has just de clared Trombetta, a Neapolitan actor and singer, not guilty of the murder of a box office clerk of the Scala Music Hall, whom he shot last summer. The whole trouble came about when Trom betta, presenting four so-called free tickets for the Scala, and, asking for the best seats, received the worst. Al though he introduced himself, no one remembered ever having heard of him. Trombetta was accompanied by his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law. The four argued with the manager, his clerks, and the man in the box office. Trombetta finally smashed a mirror with his cane, and the fight was on in full blast. Suddenly the Neapolitan noticed the box office clerk grappling with his wife. He drew a revolver and shot the man dead. At his trial he brought a large volume of testimonials to prove his SiSYi universal reputation. He informed the court that he had made his debut at 16, and at once became famous. Signora Trombetta is a Frenchwoman, whom he married in Russia. She also was a preat artiste, and he adored her. He had toured in all parts of Europe, Africa, and America. He played both comic and lovers parts. He also had the good fortune to possess both a tenor and a barytone voice. His wife sang with him. As duetists they had met with much success in England. The statement for the defense seemed irrelevant, as it consisted largely of statements by persons who had tried to get into music halls with similar "billets de faveur," and swore that they had always received the worst seats in the house. However, the testimony served, for the jury, apparently con sidering that the offense given a dis tinguished singer and his relatives was Dunishable by death, rouna ssignor Trombetta not guilty. Paris cable to New York Times. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press.! A man can be a good husband with out beine eood for anything else. Most girls think it's romantic to wonder what they'd do if a prince stared at them. Next to being a bridegroom a man is the most rattled being run over by an automobile. A: girl could have Just as much fun going -sleigh riding In the parlor be fore ,an open fire if there was the same excuse for snuggling up close to keep warm. The more' a woman can remember all the sentimental things her husband used to say to her before they were married, the more he doesn't do it any longer. THE EVENING STORY Retained in the Role. (By Carl Williams.) Melrose was agog with excitement. The local bill poster was hanging the paper of the Denham Repertoire Com pany for a three-night run. And Mag gie Denham hailed from Melrose. "Margaret Denham" she was billed, but xueirose recognized ner. It was the firet time that what Mel rose called "a real theater troupe" had visited the little town. This in Itself would have meant much, but Maggie In addition created an epoch in town his tory. Melrose could not know that she was to be a star only for this brief engage ment in Melrose. Maggie had happen ed to mention that she had been born in Melrose, and the astute manager had changed the name of the company from the Metropolitan to Denham Rep ertoire Company for the three-night stay. He well knew the value of a local name in a small town. Occasionally Maggie had let fall some scrap of in. formation as to her departure from the town that told the rest of the old story of the girl who had run away from home to go upon the stage. Maggie's story differed from most, for she had succeeded in achieving her ambition. She had become a fairly useful player of parts in the smaller companies. This was her second season with the Metropolitans and she smiled confident ly when Quinlin, the manager, asked her if she felt strong enough to play the star part for three -days. It involved a little extra rehearsal, but Maggie was delighted. She would show Tom Chambers and the rest of Melrose that she had made a success. Tom came ahead of the rest of Mel rose, because there had been a time when they two were almost engaged, and she still thought tenderly of those courtship days. She looked about eagerly when the company arrived, but though every one else m town appeared to have come to the train to stare curiously at Maggie Denham s troupe, Tom was not therf. With a curious sense of blanknesa Maggie climbed into the ramshackle 'bus that was to convey the company to the hotel. Her triumphant entrance into her home town had gone for naught just because one man was not there. She was angry and surprised to real ize that she still cared more for Cham bers than she had ever admitted when he had tried to win her. She had not long to wait, nowever, for information about the recreant cne. Presently a string of callers came to the hotel and all of the friends of her schooldays crowded the hotel pari or all talking at once. From the babel of voices Maggie gathered that Tom had left town the lay before with the evident purpose of -.voiding her. The blood throbbed in er temples. It was to give Tom a lesson that she anted to show to Melrose how well he had succeeded. Now he would not itness her triumph, and she turned rangely depressed until the manager ersed in the handling of the erratic jmen of the stage, sensed the situation. "Anyhow, you can do your best," Quinlin reminded her "and leave be hind a record that he will be proud of." 'And who may 'he" be?" demanded Maggie truculently. "I don't know." confessed Quinlin promptly, "but there is usually a 'he' somewhere, and since he does not seem tb be around,-1 thought you might like my suggestion." Maggie waved him off with a Jesting remark, but her heart was lighter. Here was something tnat sne couia ao. so 11 happened that even her fellow players wondered that evening at the brilliancy with which she played her part. "You'll land on Broadway yet," they assured her. but even this promise of reaching the -oal of all actors did not cheer the girl, and when the perform ance was over, sne numea oac to .tne hotel, only to creep into bed and cry herself to sleep. On the hird and last day of the engagement Tom appeared suddenly In town, and though she could not see him in the badly lighted auditorium that night, Maggie felt that he was there, and she acted with a touch of tenderness that lent new beauty to a naturally sympathetic role. John Benjamin, one of the import ant eastern theatrical men, had stopped over to wait for a train, and had drifted Into the opera house, where the manager overwhelmed him with attentions. As he watched the girl work he nodded his head. 'I'd like to steal your, leading woman," Benjamin said to Quinlin. "I can place her in a road company for a year under one of my good stage directors and then bring her to New York." "Go ahead and steal," Invited Quin lin. "She's a nice little woman, and if you can place her, the contract she made with me won't hold her back. I'll tell her to write to you." The big manager nodded his thanks, looked at his watch and hurried off to make his train. Maggie only nodded carelessly, when Quinlin hurried back with word that the way to Broadway was open to her at last. She conld not think of business when Tom was out there fn the dark ened auditorium watching her. She needed to give all of her attention to her performance, and she played the last act with a rich sincerity that won the audience completely. Not until the curtain had fallen and the other players crowded around to congraulate her upon the oppor tunity she had earned did sne seem to realize what it all meant, and then she accepted listlessly what the other women of her protession wouia nave given years of their life to attain. She slipped from the stage door alone to go to the hotel, but as she emerged Tom stepped forward with outstretched hands. "I had come to see you," he said brokenly. "At first I vowed that I would stay out of town while you were here, but I had to come back, and I'm glad I did. "I thought that you would be tough and common, Maggie, like the rest, but you can't be that and play like you did tonight. That wasn't acting, and when I saw you as you really are, and not as I thought that you would be, I wanted to get up and shout to you to come right to me and we'd go and get married like we used to plan when -we were children. Will you come and marry me, Mag gie? I've got a fine farm now, and you'll never regret it, dear." "I don't think I will regret It," agreed Maggie happily, "but I didn't think you'd want me, Tom." "You know what they think about actresses here," he reminded her. "I guess I thought pretty much the same, but you well, when I saw you come on the stage looking Just like you used to do, I knew you were my Maggie still!" He clasped her hands, unable to say more, but Maggie understood. To the Melrose minds all player folks were followers of the devil. Perhaps the ingenuous role she bad played AMUSEMENTS.

At the Grand. Tonight "The Right of Way." Saturday matinee and night "The Right Of Way." Monday night Blanche Walsh. Tuesday night "Coming Thro' the Rye." At the Novelty. Daily Matinee 2:30 High class vaudeville. Evenings 7:-S:15 Hlgii-class vaudeville. At the Majestic. Tonight 8:15 The Raymond Wells Stock comeany in "David Garrick" and vaude ville. Daily matinee 2:30. For particulars, prices and amusement details, see announcements in this paper elsewhera. had won Tom. He wanted for his wife the woman, she had played. And she knew it would be easy to con tinue in that role with Tom as opposite. She felt that she could continue her success in that part, and so she lef him kiss her before she pushed him gently from her with a whis pered command to came to the hotel in the morning. Together they would see Quinlin and secure the release from her contract. As she entered the hotel the man ager was waiting for her. He had taken from his trunk her contract for the season, and this he handed to her.- "This sets you free, my girl. You can go to Benjamin and Broadway," he said smilingly. "I'm glad that at last the Metropolitans have con tributed a real star to Broadway.". "I'm not going to Benjamin," re plied Maggie. "I'll play the season out for you, if you want me to. but I made a real human hit in the part tonight, and I'm. going to keep on playing it for Tom here In Melrose. Gee, Mr. Quinlin I'm glad he didn't see me last night as the adven turess." (Copyrighted, 1909, by Asso ciated Literary Press.) HUMOR OP THE DAY Appreciation. Nan Poor girl, she broke down in the middle of that aria and gave it up. Yet you applauded her. Jack I applauded her for realizing that she couldn't sing. Washington Star. Not a Conservative. Knicker Interested in forest Rnnitprvntnn Tlrwlr tr- X' t can't even conserve a new leaf. New York sun. The people who kicked on canned musio brand. Atlanta Constitution. Not a Bad Plan. "Yes. sir, I'm a worry ing man. I can't helD worrvinar." "Hm Hi you keep from being overwhelmed?" "Only oy allowing tne worries of today to blot out those of yesterday." Chicago Tribune. "DM ttlA viHn ar mtin T4 off.. Tf ma h f 9" "XT. V. a did he die of V Houston Post. "Do you keep a second girl?" "No; mv wiife isn't strong enough to wait on mora than one." Kansas City Journal. "But," protested the old millionaire, "I don't wish you for a son-in-law." "Oh. very well," rejojined the poor but honest youm. ay tne way, you uaven t any oth er good job you could give a fellow, iiava. your Illustrated Bits. "Mildred," murmured a fashionable young man, Binking on one knee, "for your birthday gift I offer myself." "Thank you, was the sold reply, "but I accept only useful presents?" Philadelphia In ouircr. Little Tommr Sav. nnn.-v Pana-What is it? Little Tommy What do deaf-mutea do when they want to talk in a whisper? Chicago News. Living Skeleton What busted vonr front teeth? Dog-faced Boy I bit the Ossi- iiea lvian. uieveiana .ueaaer. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Seven out of ten men seem to make money, and lose It. Some men actually believe their troubles are Interesting. Every woman thinks her husband can whip any two men on earth. If you will keep quiet yourself, you can profit by other people talking too much. The proudest man we ever knew had nothing to be proud of but his whiskers, and they were red. If a man spends 75 cents on his wife's kin, and doesn't like them, how the sum grows In his talk about it. The man who is always trying to "find out" something about others, learns so much that isn't true. A stingy man should be grateful other people are not as stingy as he Is; otherwise he couldn't do so well. One good thing about living in a little town: When the hearse goes along the street every body knows who is in the coffin. Don't ever expect an answer to the question: "Whatever did you do with your money?" It is a question that no one can answer. A young girl often apologizes for her family to a young man, but after she has married him, she will apolo- gize for him to her family. jf It is every boy's opinion that hi sister's hands wouldn't be any whiter than his if she didn't clean them in washing dishes and making bread. Listen to a bunch of women five minutes, and you will hear one of them say that she never cooks what she likes to eat if her husband doesn't like it. Some of us will forgive our friends for whipping their children, swear ing, stealing, murder, and even run ning off with other people's husbands and wives, but the person does not live who will forgive a friend for bragging. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. tFrom tha Chicago News.l It is possible for a plain cook to be a pretty one.. Some men are too lazy to kick when they get the short end of it. You can never tell what a woman thinks by what she doesn't say. If a woman has no other reason for loving a man she does It just because. Did you ever see a man who wasn't. willing to make money without earning It? All men are born free and equal and remain that way until they get mar ried. Money makes the mare go but It doesn't always make her come under the wire first. The average man appreciates the loan of $5 today far more than he will a $500 funeral later. Nothing puffs a woman up more than to have a seventeenth cousin suddenly become famous. Most men would be glad to pay a large Income tax for the sake of having that kind of an income. Women have even been known to play cards at a card party after there waa nothing more to talk about. A mretty girl doesn't fully appreciate her beauty unless somebody la con stantly reminding ber that she haa it. T

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THE TOHEKA DAILY STATE JOITBNAL FRIDAY EVENING FEBBUARY 12, 1909. THE TXLE POLITICIAN. Copyright. 1909. by American Press Asso ciation. J B EOAUSE it has been as sociated with unscrupulous and selfish men the term "politician" has come into undeserved con tempt. As used originally it meant simply a political tacti cian, a good gen eral in the bat tles of the bal lots. Since graft, bosses and ballot box stuffing have come into vogue they have all been ascribed to the politician, when, as a mat ter of fact, they should have been charged to crim- iHAT oss word was inals who pre "vsios." tended to be pol iticians. We do not sufficiently dis criminate. We are too sweeping in our denunciations. Because some religion ists are hypocrites is no reason we should abnse religion. We might as well refuse to accept money because there are counterfeits in circulation or resolve never to sit again if one chair happens to break under us. Some of the best and most public spirited men In our history have been politicians. They have not been the criminal varie ty of politician, however. They have been the sort of politicians that are Wise generals In political campaigns. To this class belonged Lincoln. Make no mistake about his shrewd ness, farsightedness 'and ability as a tactician. In the struggle with Doug las he not only got the better of bis opponent in debate, but outgeneraled him. He was placing to beat Doug las for the presidency. He did not count on getting the senatorship for himself or on gaining anything for himself. Lincoln was a politician, but not a selfish one. He looked the sit uation squarely in the face, decided what was best for his party and the country and fought for that, regard less of the effects on his own fortubes. The difference between Lincoln and ether politicians of his time, or of any time, for the matter of that, is that he saw further ahead, cared more for principle and would not allow private gain to stand in the way of public good. His associates looked only to the election Immediately Involved. He gazed beyond that to future elec tions. They desired only to win the nearby victory. He kept his eye' on the faroflf greater victory. They dealt with the ordinary campaign methods. While not neglectful of these, he measured the effects of principles and used his unerring logical faculty in determining the working of cause and effect In the political world. One other thing should be borne in mind. In his political capacity Abra ham Lincoln was essentially a Repub lican. His great fight was made to maintain the power of the general government over the subject of slav ery in the territories. His whole atti- j tude during the war was for nation- ality. Whatever may be our own j views on the subject of state and na- j tion, if we nave failed to see this side I of Lincoln we have failed to see him I at all. His struggle against Douglas was to maintain the traditions and j powers of the nation against any vaguely phrased popular sovereignty that was not properly safeguarded by i law and order. After becoming presi- dent his Insistence was that self pres- I ervation and continuity is the basic law of any nation's existence. There fore no state could withdraw from the Union without the consent of all the other states. His cry was for saving the nation in the form in which it was turned over to him. When he met Alexander H. Stephens at the Hampton Roads conference, he told Stephens that he would write only one word and the south might have everything else. That one word was "Union." He expressed tha same sen timent to Horace Greeley and others To Abraham Lincoln the United States of America was distinctly and eternal ly a nation, not a confederation of states. I feel bound to say this, be cause I am trying to give a whole and truthful view of the man. He was constructive, always and everywhere constructive. He was in favor of pub lic improvements and public improve ments made by the state. He was in favor of a tariff. He was for govern ment issue of money a government man all through. People who looked only at the sur face of things accused President Lin coln of lacking a policy. They were mistaken. He had a policy, a very large but a very definite policy. He never shrank from carrying it out He was no stickler on small things, but none could be firmer on great things. His faculty of going to the fundamentals of every question made him settle on one thing at the begin ning of his administration. It was that the nation must be preserved in tact. This was his pole star. He eteered by It without varying. When Seward and others would have tem porized he kept steadfast to that on fundamental ideal. The Old-Fashioned Man Look! There's mriuu riirht on vour foot! The Modern Woman Sh! don't scare him. Go quietly end get a piece of cheese, ana l u eaten the dear iuue uung. vievcuuiit INCOLN By JAMES A. THE ORATOR. CCopyright, 1909. by American Press Asso ciation.! HATEVER the cynic may say. neither real ora tory nor real po etry can ever pass out of vogue. It is only the second rate varieties, the Im itations and the counterfeits that come into disre pute. The high est eloquence and the greatest lyr ics and epics are the voices of the immortal in man, and to the im mortal In man they make their appeal. Great or atory is almost always connect ed with some great occasion. MKCOLN AT COOMB It has as its object the advancement of Justice, truth or liberty. It Is the utterance of some friend of man in op position to tyranny or In favor of a forward step' of the "race. As such It is a divine instrument of good. There will always be a place for this sort of eloquence. It wll ever form a part of the literary treasures of the race. The oratory of Abraham Lincoln was of this character. It came from his heart aye, deeper, from his souL Its mainsprings were hatred of slavery, contempt of shams, love of country and of mankind. No man can under stand Lincoln- who does not see his im patience with empty forms, shows, pretense and Hp service. Only the real, the basic, the fundamental and the true made any appeal to his intellect or heart He knew nothing of mere rhetoric. He was utterly logical. His merciless ridicule stripped off every af fectation and sophistry. His simplicity made him put every proposition in its plainest terms. His democracy caused him to phrase his arguments for the j understanding of the common mind, j His humor and good sense appealed at him at last gain a grasp of military once to the masses. But, despite the j science which enabled him to bring humble forms in which his sentiments j order out of chaos and to choose gen were dressed, Lincoln's ideals were j erals that were equal to their mighty ever lofty,' and through his utterances runs a moral undertone, a note of gen uine faith in God that has scarcely been as conspicuous in any ruler since Oliver Cromwell. The most famous addresses of Mr. Lincoln were perhaps the one at Bloomlngton known as the 'lost speech," the debates with Douglas, the Cooper Union speech, the two inaugu ral addresses and the Gettysburg ad dress. These efforts were scattered over a period of nearly ten years, from the formation of the Republican party almost to Lincoln's assassina tion. The last in point of time was the Immortal second inaugural, the "malice toward none, charity for all utterance which, considered from every standpoint, is Mr. Lincoln's greatest. There has been nothing in human speech quite like that second Inaugural since the golden words that fell from the lips of the Nazarene nineteen hundred years ago. The divine justice, the moral quality, the largeness of view and the lack of bitterness, the forgiveness and the providence for those left helpless by j the war, all these, coupled with the occasion and the man, make the sec- ond inaugural of Lincoln transcend any mere state paper, with the single exception of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. This may seem extrava- gant praise, but an examination of other state papers will reveal that it is not. Of course it must be under stood that this estimate relates only to oratorical and literary quality. The Gettysburg address ranks with the second Inaugural, and the two will ever remain Abraham Lincoln's chief contributions to literature. Lincoln was like no other speaker In history. His style Is peculiarly his painstaking care, even if in the fewest possible words, he made every step of his reasoning plain There was noth ing loose or vague in the thought of Lincoln. He was the severest euro logician. Every- thing was defl- nite, stated with an exactness that ad- mitted of but one interpretation. Never did an orator combine so perfectly the logical, the moral and the poetical, His example proves once more that at their highest these qualitiescoincide. There was nothing of the florid about Lincoln. He talked in a conversational way and his most Conspicuous quality was common sense. "She may be conceited as you say, but she always wears a very sweet expres sion." "That's from being photographed so often." Houston Post. C. ENTENARY EDGERTON THE MILITARY STRATEGIST. fCopyrlght. 1909. by American Press Asso ciation. i N 'the beginning of the war President Lin ed n distrusted his own military abilities and left pretty much ev erything to his generals. Later, when his gener als failed to bring results, he tried to find out why. At last he determined per sonally to learn the science of war. He went about it in the same thorough way that he had fitted himself as a surveyor. It took him only a few weeks to do that because he he studied wab applied his whole night and dat. intellect to the problem and worked at It night and j day. In learning military tactics he read every book on thve subject that was available. Military men from Eu rope were surprised by the familiarity which he showed with technical terms and with the military history of their own lands. Democracy presents strange and new spectacles to the world. Here was a country lawyer without knowledge or experience of war placed suddenly in command of the armies and navies of a populous nation In the mightiest struggle in history. Not only so. but the diplomacy and multitudinous gov ernmental affairs were in his bands, and that at a time when one false move would have precipitated a crisis with other nations. But the most mar velous part of the unusual spectacle was to come. The older nations beheld this country lawyer without experi ence in statecraft, diplomacy or war develop a wise, cautious and masterly policy in internal affairs, a foreign pol- icy that steered the nation through two most delicate entanglements and saw task: As soon as Mr. Lincoln bad mads s study of all the available books on war he took a more active part in the direction of affairs. His first great mistake was in retaining McClellan after that officer, admittedly a fine en gineer and organizer, but a poor fighter, had shown his incapacity or unwill ingness to accomplish results. Not un til Lincoln saw that McClellan was bidding for the presidency did he final ly make up his mind to effect a change. Neglect, delay, complaints and almost Insults he had borne with exemplary patience. Only when it was plain that the general of his chief army was more intent on advancing bis political for- tunes than he was on ending the war did the president act Later all his moves In connection with the Army of the Potomac showed that he was hunt ing for a general. Matters began to mend, but Lincoln had not yet found the man. Two commanders were tried only to be discarded. Meade or was it fate? won the battle of Gettysburg, but the president was bitterly disap pointed that the victory was not vigor ously followed up and Lee's army de stroyed before it could escape into Vir- ginia. He felt that one bold stroke here would have practically ended the war, and in this most military authorities agree, with him. Then Mr. Lincoln found his captain. Placing Grant at the head of all the armies, he left him practically unham pered to complete the war. He exhih- ited his own generalship not only in I his choice of the man, but In turning over to him all details. Mr. Lincoln displayed his general ship in many ways. He exhibited it before the war in his manner of con ducting his political battles. While op- own. Not only are posed to slavery, he was too wise to there no surplus demand all he had In view. His fight words, but no was to stop the spread of slavery into surplus thoughts, the territories. He thus attacked the Throwing aside foe at his weakest point When the every nonessen- victory was gained on this minor de tlal, he drove tall it was gained all along the line, straight to the Again Mr. Lincoln showed his gen heart of his sub- eralship In his insistence that the war Ject He was im- was to save the Union and not to save pelled to get at or destroy slavery. By this means he the very center kept the border states In the Union of the thing, at" and gained the support of the war its souL But with Democrats. His firmness in regard to Fort Sum ter was a third evidence of his tactical ability. Any weakening at that point would have been fatal. Lincoln here Bhowed himself superior to Seward and all the other vacillating temporizers. His unwavering attitude at this crit ical time heartened the nation. His modifications of Rraanl'ii nn- wjse instructions to our minister to i rn.i. h. and Slldell affair, his tolerant and ha- morous attitude toward Vallandigham and otber northern opponents of the j waP aDdv Kreatest of aU, hls lssuance j of the emancipation proclamation as a j war measure, all these and other like acta -howpd tht Abraham Unonin was a political and military general of the first rank. Don't Wear 'Em Straight Any More They were ready to go out. "Is. my hat on crooked?" she asked. Thus, owing to the new style of headgear, a traditional phrase used by the feminine sex ever since woman wa created,- reoeived a stunning blow. Judge. THE LITERARY MAN. ICopyright, 1909, toy American Press Asso ciation.! A B R A H A M Lincoln had the soul of a poet He loved Shakespeare and Burns, whom he quoted by rote, and had in his memory many fu gitive pieces to be brought forth as suited his mood. The fa vorite of all these was one he him self made fa mous beginning, "Oh, why should the' spirit of mor tal be prond?" Holmes' "Last Leaf" was also frequently on his Hps, as were many others in a unscoLir's stump similar vein. speech is thk Frank B. Car hatfieu. penter tells of Lincoln quoting Shakespeare with such power that he suggested the president had missed his calling and should have taken to the stage. Lincoln, however, played on a larger stage, with the ages for his audience. Terseness, clearness, unity, are the most prominent characteristics of the martyr president's style. Where did this child of the frontier learn his use of English? Some of his utterances have become classics. How did he, with but a few weeks' schooling in his entire life, learn to write gems as du rable as the language? He himself has answered the ques tion. He read Bunyan, Aesop, Shake speare, Burns and the Bible. He could scarcely have had better models. He did more. When the-traveling politi cians stopped at his' father's house they talked of the questions then agi tating the country. The child had difficulty in understanding them and after climbing the ladder to his bed of leaves In the loft would lie awake for hours seeking to puzzle out what they meant Then he would try to phrase their sentiments in simpler and clear er language, in words that any child could understand. Does not that shed a flood of light on the marvelous terse ness, simplicity and clearness of his style? I know of nothing more in spiring except Benjamin Franklin's at tempt to reproduce the thoughts of Joseph Addison without memorizing the language in order that by means of the comparison he might improve his own style. Whenever he heard a sermon young Abraham would come home and try to reproduce it for the benefit of the fam ily. Whenever there was a lull in the hayfield he would mount a stump and deliver a speech. At home he would write on the wooden shovel and 'shave it off, repeating the performance until the shovel was all shaved away. His means of expression were so limited he had to be terse. It would be a public blessing if all authors were forced to learn the same fine economy of words. Lincoln even tried to write verse, but why detract from his fame by re producing bis poetry? It was about as bad as it could have been. Never theless he had a poet's soul, even though he was not a success at jingling his words and chopping them off at certain machine lengths. Few Amer lean poems contain more poetry than some of Lincoln's prose. I remember once seeing In the offices of the New York World this motto: "Accuracy, terseness, accuracy. J. P." On the next post it occurred again: "Accuracy, terseness, accuracy. J. P." It was hung all over the reporters' rooms. It was one of the secrets of Joseph Pulitzer's power In building op the World and his other papers Mr. Lincoln's style answers that test perfectly. He was accurate because he could not be otherwise. He had to state even his opponent's position fully. fairly and completely. He could not j be vague and uncertain in his use of I facts. His logical mind would not per I mit him to wander from the truth. He j was Just as accurate in the statement of a principle as In the statement of a fact He reduced everything to its primary elements. His arguments thus j were as clear as sunlight Accuracy j was in his mental constitution. Terse ness he imposed on himself. I The address at Cooper, Union Is an 1 excellent example of his longer ef forts. An examination of it gives a good Idea of Lincoln's methods. It is compacted of facts. There is no flam boyant oratory, no appeal to prejudice or passion, no cheap parade of lan guage or tricks of phrase. He takes j the one theme of the attitude of the country's founders on the subject of slavery and proves it, demonstrates It until there is scarcely another word to be said on the subject He shows be I yond any question of doubt that they j had In view the gradual limitation and j ultimate extinction of the "peculiar in stifutlon." With Lincoln it was facts, j facts, facts. logic, logic, logic. He gestured little, his chief gesture being a downright sledge hammer blow. He was terribly In earnest His voice was high and penetrating, but not unpleas ant At first be was awkward, but soon forgot himself and ail awkward ness left him. He dealt with the sub stance of things, and that gave him his power. "I shall Insist oil' making some speeches on the tariff." said Senator Sorghum. "Then you are deeply Interested T" "No. I would rather talk than listen." Wash ington Star. Skirts Seduced Make the most of this sale tomorrow. Strictly high-class garments. Reductions that touch the less-than-cost notch. You buy $5.95 Skirts for $2.95 $40 Skirts for $18.75, and in-between values at the same little profit-shorn prices. Also Women's Suits Those $25 to $37.50 Suits have been blue-penciled to the $15 point. And we hope you secure one of them. The Coats Are Less Than Half You know why you should'nt really care as long as you know you save the difference between former and present prices. A Whisper o! New Garments As usual, we have the right styles in Spring garments. They are ready for your inspection. Quality Tells LINCOLN MEMORIAL ERECTED ON THE SPOT WHERE THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY. The accompanying illustration is a reproduction of the first photograph ever taken of the Abraham Lincoln me morial erected on the old Lincoln farm near Hodgensvllle, Ky., and on the exact spot whfere Lincoln was born. The memorial was built by popular subscription through the efforts of the Lincoln Farm association, of which Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri is president, after Kobert J. Collier, the New York publisher, had purchased the ground. The structure shown in this picture covers the primitive log cabin where the great emancipator first saw the light of day on Feb 12 1809. On the one hundredth anniversary of that date today, the memorial is dedicated with an elaborate ceremony, Theodore Koosevelt the principal speaker of the occasion. BOUNTIES PAID IX COFFEY CO. Investigation Shows the Amounts Paid In Past Three Years. ttf t- xtk -11 Ti county clerk of this county has received a letter Real Elstate Loans Monthly Payments The Capital Boilding f Loan Association X 534 Kansas Avenue CORRECT DRESS FOR WOMEN 707 Kansas Avenue from Jere Wilson, secretary of agriculture, of Washington, D. C, requesting that he be sent a record of the number of crows, wolves, etc., killed in this county during the past three years. The object of the report is that the department want to establish the habits of the wild animals and determine any effect they may have on- crop conditions. By a comparison and a record of the number or animals a pret ty close average should be reached. The price paid for crow heads in 1906 was only three cents each, but since then the county has been anxious to pay five cents each and $1.00 for wolf ears. The report for the past three years for Coffey county follows: No. No. wolves. Amt. crows. Bounty. 100689 $S00 35 1.05 1907 88 88.00 1,9)1 80.06 1908 S8 98.00 6,375 171.25 A Borneo Parasite. A famous rarity In the vegetable world of Borneo is the Rafflesia, the buah pakmah of Malays. The plant is one of the most degraded of parasites, and bo completely does it submerge Itself in the tissues of its host that theJ only part which, ever snows ltsexx to Price Sells the external world Is the enormous flower. The diameter of the flower measures about two feet; the odor Is repulsive, and there Is not one feature of beauty to recommend It to man. It appears, however, to hold an Important place in the pharmacopoeia of the natives, who perhaps imagine that the plant to which nature has- given so uninviting an exterior must possess Some hidden virtue In the way of com pensation. Various species of Rafflesia are known in Borneo, and oddly enough their hosts are invariably species of vine (cissus). London Standard. CASTOR 1 A Tot Infants and Children. The Kind Yen Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of

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8 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE J OURIf Air FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 12, 1909, GRAND OPERA HOUSE EX 2 Days, Starting Friday, Feb! 12 X SPECIAL KLAWeNGER SPECIAL! Their Original New York Company and Production in Sir Gilbert Parker's Great Drama THE RIGHT OF WAY WITH GUY STANDING AND THEODORE ROBERTS In Their Famous Impersonation of CHARLEY STEELE and JOE PORTUGAIS Prices 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50. Mat. 25c, 50c, 75c, $1 Thursday, February 18th Gertrude Hoffman in "A Vision of Salome" and Men delssohn's "Spring; Song." Mimic World Prices: 50c to $2.00. Tuesday, February 16th Coming Thro' The Rye 60 Comedians, Singers, Dancers Prices 25-50-75-$1.00-$ 1.50 Senate Entertained by the Kan sas Western University. The Colored Industrial School at Quindaro. A LINCOLN MEMORIAL. Exercises Really Opening the Anniversary Programme. An Object Lesson in Progress Emancipated Race. MAJESTIC Matinee 2:30 Tonight 8:15 Raymond Wells Co. DAVID GARRICK NEXT WEEK SuIIivan-Considine Vaudeville 3 SHOWS DAILY 3 Nights 10c 20c Mat. 10c Novelty Theater HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE Matinee 2:30. Evening 7:45. 9:15 TEN KOUNTRY KIDS and 3 Other Big Acts Prices Always the Same All Matinees, any seat. .10c Night, Lower Floor 20c Balcony 10c AUDITORIUM TONIGHT 8:15 P. M. RALPH BINGHAM In Music, Song and Story EIGHTH ON ORGAN COURSE Tickets at Stansfields for 25 Cents TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. IThe following- sales were made this morning at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long dlstanca telephone direct to the State Journal by Ciay Robinson Co.. live stock commis sion merchants, -with offices at all mar kets. Kansas City, Feb. 12. CATTLE Re ceipts 2.000 head. Market strong. HOGS Receipts 9.000 head. Market opening &c lower. Bulk of sales, W.00 .46; top. J6.50. SHEEP Receipts 2,000 head. Market strong. KILLING STEERS. No. 17.. 44.. 4.. 1.. 23.. Wt. ..1061 ..1127 .1205 ..1190 ..1168 Price. Jo.oo 5.35 5.45 4.S5 5.35 No. Wt. Price. 24 1144 $5.35 25 10S3 5.35 7 11SS 5.35 20 1316 5.00 3.. 29.. 1.. COWS AND HEIFERS. ....1003 4.30 I 1. 9S0 878 4.90 i 6 606 900 4.00 I 2 660 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 2. 30. 18. 625 .1020 .1125 1. 63. 1... 1... 2... 170 230 205 2.. 66.. 6S.. 71.. 6.. 90.. .1525 430 235 2S6 196 153 156 4.75 5.10 5.20 CALVES. 6.50 I 2... 6.00 1 3... 4.00 BULLS. 4.15 I 1... 4.25 1..., HOGS. 940 9S0 155 100 4.75 5.50 5.50 4.60 4.80 6.37 6.50 6.25 5 25 5.90 72., 82. 1. 2. 480 .1390 254 199 520 90 6.50 6.50 4.00 4.50 6.40 6.20 5.25 5.10 Kansas City Live Stock. Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. 12. CATTLE receipts z.oui. Including 100 southerns. Market steady. Native steers. J4.S0fjC.G0; southern steers. $4.2SS.00: southern cows. $2.504.25: native cows and heifers, J2.25 c.io; Blockers ana reeaers. 3.25.'a5.25; bulls, J3.254.85; calves, $3.50-6.50; western steers, $4.00356.25: western cows, J2.75(15.75. HOGS Receipts 9,000. Market steady to Sc lower. Bulk of sales, $6.0006.45; heavy, $6.406.50; packers and butchers. $6.20(31 6.45; light. $5.766.26; pigs, $4.505.50. SHEEP Receipts 2,000. Market steady Muttons, $4.50(36.60; lambs, $6.50(87.50; range wethers, $4.00(6.76; fed ewes, $3.00(g5.10. Topeka Market. Furnished bv the Chas. Wolff Packing Co.. yards close at noon Saturday. We cannot use pigs, thin sows or hogs weighing less than 170 lbs. Do not mar ket hogs unless same are well finished, as we cannot use half fat stud. We glva below prices effective at once, until fur ther notice. 1 Topeka, Kan., Feb. 12. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS $6.755f6 05 HEAVY 6.106.20 LIGHT CATTLE: 56ft&6-90 Per cwt Cows good)... $4.0084.50 Cows (medium) 3.00iz;3 75 Heifers (good).... 4.50faa 00 Heifers (medium) 3.504' 25 Bulls (good).... 3.25g3:75 Bulls (medium) 2 5o?nn Calves (100 to 200 lbs.) Isolsw Calves (over 200 lbs.) 3 wSiso BUTTER AND EGGS a su4-s0 Furnished by The Continental Creamenr Co.. Topeka. Kan.1 CIT EGGS Chicago, 33c; N. Y., 29c CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago, 29c; ,1CELGINCBUTTER 30c. EGGS AND POULTRY rWholesale prices furnished by Tonrt. Packins Co.. 114-116 W. Laurent street 1 POULTRY Hens. 8c: springs. 8c; broil ers. 12c: old cocks. 3c: stags, le. Turkevi 13c; ducks. 8c: geese. 6c ""-"ya, BUTTER Packing: stock. 19c EGGS 2Sc. WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCF Furnished by Sam-1 E. Lux. Wholesale Fruit and Produce J FLORIDA PINEAPPLES per crati $3.50(!3.7o. CAULIFLOWER Per crate. $3 00 COCOANUTS Per sack. original.'$3: per doz 65c. BULK DATES Per lb.. 6c HONEY Per case, $3.35. APPLES Per box. $1.352.00. GRAPE FRUIT Per box, $4.00. FIGS Per box. 65c CRANBERRIES Per bbLj $14.00 ner lb.. 14c. FLORIDA TOMATOES Per 6 basket crate, $3.50. CABBAGE Wisconsin Holland, per lb., 3c RED ULUBC ui.xji.ss Wisconsin, ner bu.. $1.00. ONION SETS Per bu., $2.753.25. LEMONS California, per box, $2.753 30 ORANGES Redlands Golden, per box! t2.65fg3.00. BANANAS Med. size bchs.. per bch $1.50jjarge bchs.. per bch.,$1.75'2.00; per "'fANCY LEAF LETTUCE Per basket. $1.00. TEXAS NEW BEETS Per doa bunches. (Oc. TEXAS RADISHES Per doz. bunches, SPINICH Texas, per bu., 90c. PARSNIPS Per bu.. 85c. TURNIPS Per bushel. 60c. SEED POTATOES R. R. Bliss Tri umphs, per bu. $1.35; R. R. E. O. potatoes, per bu., $1.20; Nebraska E. O. potatoes, per bu., $l.ou. COLORADO POTATOES Per bu., 90c SWEET POTATOES Per bu., $1.15. CELERY Mammoth, per bunch. 90c; Jumbo, per bunch, 75c; Blue Ribbon, per bunch. 55c. FRESH OYSTERS rf. Y. Counts, per can. ooc; in. i. dciccih, per can, 45c: Standards, per can, jac. Bulk N. Y Cnnnts. ner eal.. $2.30: N. Y. Extra s,.i per gal., $2.10; Plain Selects, per gal., $1.S5; bianaaras. per ki.. ji w. CHEESE. Wisconsin. Y. A., 17Vtc; Limburger, 16c Daisy, 20-lb. each. 16c; Daisy Twins, 3 to box, 16c; Wisconsin yellow, 16c; Wiscon sin white, itc; Jones. j.oc; Block Swiss, Topekn Hide Market. Quotations furnished by James C. Stnim Topeka, Kan., Feb. 11 1 CI f eliia I. 1 hi,ns. 56.c Hat: No. 1 G. s. hnii v,iZl-' 9c; No. 2 G. S. bul hides. 8c; Deacons, i to 35c: slunks. lac to 25c; No. 1 boras bides. $2.50: No. 2 horse hides. $1.50; No 1 nurse muca. ui "utuutr, Heavies. 14c; dry flint fallen. 13c: dry flint lights. 12c; dry salts. 11c: dry culls. 10c Tallow Grain and Hay Market. Furnished by J. B. Billard, corner Kan sas Ave. ana Curtis St.J Topeka, Kan.. Feb. 12 WHEAT No. 2, 93gS5c; No. 3. 89(g91c; IN O. St'S'StJC. CORN 68c. OATS 48(S50c HAY Prairie, $6.507.00; alfalfa, $10.00. SEWER OK XO SEWER. Question to Be Settled at Clay Center Special Election. Clay Center, Feb. 12. At a special meeting of the city council held Wed nesday night it was agreed to hold a special primary election for voting on an extension of present sewer system. The sewer, as it now is, only covers a part of the business portion of town. So many new modern buildings have been put up recently in the residence part of the city together with the new $50,000 high school building that a pressure has been brought to bear on the mayor and council to have a sew erage system installed to connect with the present main. K The mayor and council have the power to go ahead with this work, but thought It best to leave it in the hands of the voters. A primary election has therefore been called for Feb. 23rd, to vote on the question. The estimated expense of the new sewerage is about $15,000. On Feb. 23rd the question will be sewerage or no sewerage. Milkman I lost one of mv cows yester day. Mrs. S. A. R Casm I didn't know you had any! Judge. The meeting of the senate last night was more in the nature of an enter tainment than a legislative session. The session was preceded by a musi- cal programme rendered by the young women and young men of the musical department of 'Western Kansas uni versity, a colored institution located at Quindaro, Kan. There were a large number of visitors in the senate cham ber during the recital and the selection of the singers were heartily applauded. At the close of the concert President Fitzgerald said: "The Western Kansas university from Which these young people have come, have no funds and no friends to hire a special train to take the mem bers of the legislature to their school so these representatives have come to the legislature. President Fitzgerald then introduced President W. T. Vernon, of the school, who told of the work of the school and declared that Kansas stands for a square deal for every man, no matter what his color or race. The governor has recommended a liberal appropriation for our school, and we believe you desire to help us and see us prosper. Mr. Vernon then presented to Presi dent Fitzgerald a gavel which had been made by the male students at Quindaro with tools purchased with state appropriations. Amendment Made by Colored Race. President Fitzgerald mentioned that he was a member of the house when the first appropriation for the Western Kansas university was made. He spoke of the advancement that has been made by the colored man and declar ed that future presiding officers of the senate would wield the gavel present ed in the interests of the colored citi zens of the state as well as of the white" and in the Interests of equality and Justice to all. Senator Price was recognized by the chair and said: "These young people are an excellent example of the race for whom Abra- ham Lincoln did so much. I deem these exercises a fitting prelude to the cele bration of Lincoln s birthday In which we will all participate tomorrow. I move that the senate extend a vote of thanks to these young people for their music and the enjoyment they have afforded us." The motion was carried by a rising vote. The Visit to K. V. Senator Brady also extended an in vitation to the colored students to go on the visit to the state university at Lawrence. On motion of Senator Brady, S. B. No. 44, by Senator Bender, providing for a tax on dogs, was made a special order and considered forthwith. This bill provided that the tax of $1 on all dogs 6 months of age be used to pay one-half of the damage done to sheep by dogs, and also to pay bounties on wolves, coyotes, crows, and pocket- gophers killed within the county. The consideration of this bill was made an occasion for indulgence in levity by the dignified senators. Senator Glenn moved an amendment that Angora goats be included with the sheep. Senator Carey objected. He found by Secretary Coburn's report that there are in the state 188,945 dogs and only 136,191 sheep. He thought the sheep ought to be taxed for the support of the dogs, the raising of the latter appearing to be the more thriving industry. After Sheep Killing Dogs. Senator Carey said he had four boys. each of whom has a dog, and he had one himself and the tax of $1 on his a book be kept to register all the births of dogs and also -to keep record of-all dogs that come into the township either by their 'owii volition or otherwise. Senator Hodges' declared he was seri ous about the matter, but the sena tors refused to believe him. The amendment-was lost, the chair deciding that .the opponents of the amendment stood up the longest. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to refer the bill tn the iudiciarv and state affairs committees. Senator tsraay moved to strike out section 2 providing that -anyperson harboring a uog snau De deemed the owner ana subject to the tax. He eaid he is of a friendly disposition and stray dogs fre quently follow him around, and In view or nis opposition to the county asses sors they would be "laying" for him ana make him pay tax on all the stray dogs in Lawrence. His motion was lost. Senator Denton moved that the en acting clause be 6tricken out. This motion was carried and the bill was lost and the period of levity and facetiousness was ended. The senate then adjournd at 9:30 p m. until Saturdav morning at 10 o'clock. Interesting Bills Are Passed. WThile in committee of the whole late yesterday afternoon the senate passed a number of interesting bills. At the same session the senate killed its first bill since the opening of the present legislature. Among the bills recommended for passage were the following: Substitute for S. B. No. 84. By com mittee on banks and banking An act amending the existing laws relating to the conducting of banking institutions. H. B. No. 47. Bv Matson Prohibit ing misrepresentation in the Bale of fruit trees. S. B. No. 241. By Potter Creating the office of state veterinarian and designating the head of the veterinary department of K. A. C. as tnat oincer. S. B. No. 382. By committee on as sessment and taxation Amending ex istinsr tax laws. S. B. No. 383. By committee on as sessment and taxation To provide for taiine of the nroDerty of car com- nnrHpH find concern Ine other than rail road companies which operate private roads. S. B. No. 11. By Hodges Providing for the construction of rock roaas, which cost more than $1,000 a mile, was nnnsiderpd and recommended for pas sage subject to amendment and de- nate. Opposition to the bill developed In the committee Senator Potter and Fowler, heintr the most vigorous op nonents. Senator Hodges defended his bill and was supported by Sena tors Rradv and Price. It was con sidered, however, that further dis cussion of the bill should be had and it was reported to the senate nibject to amendment and debate. A Domestic Game Measure. S. B. No. 263. introduced by Sena tor Myers, the friend of the quail, pro voked a rather, heated discussion the senators. This bill pro hibited the hunting or trapping of nuail in the state for a period of six years, and tne lovers or ciean, wuuie some sport among the solons jumped onto the act with both feet. The bill was finally killed by a vote of 18 to 17. Senator Robertson moved tnat tne enacting clause be stricken out. He said in his part of the state there are lots of quail and.;besiaes ne aia not believe in unreasonable restrictions on personal liberty.-.-? Senators stannara ana Avery iavor- ed the 1)111' andj declared the farmers desire it. Senftwrtnderson of Bour bon county said In his neighborhood quail are pientifuJU .He thought per sons should not be denied the privi lege of hunting tne' bird, and he add ed pathetically: n'Must think, brother senators, of six long years without a little quail on toast." Senator Hodges argued tnat tne pas sage of this bill would put an end to the state game and nsn natcnery in Pratt county which is supported by fees for hunters' licenses. No one, he said, will tako out a license to hunt if the Myers bill were passed. Senators Huffman and Brewster took a shot at the bill and Senator Carey declared that under the present law farmers can -prevent hunting on their farms. If the Myers bill were passed the farmers would shoot quail on the sly. but the city folks could not even do that. He thought the city hunters should not bo discriminated against just because they live in the city. The charge was made by Senator Cooke that whenever any bill in the interest of agriculture comes up the senators always wake up and get busy aogs would be a hardship on his fam-i against it. He admitted the quails Nr- eat a little grain, but they are a do- Senator Hodges offered an amend- mesne bird and peaceable in their ment providing tnat in each township habits. Senator Cooke in reply to a AN ITCHING PALM, mire for It. Other Forma of ncmng Preferable. inere is no cure for an itching palm the money kind. Even poslam, the "f"" uiscovery, cannot help It. But when it comes to ecezema, the most annoying of itching skin troubles, poslam will stop the itching at once and cure the worst cases in a few days. So with hlv ,v..- i!0eS' pll.es and scaly scalp, all of .....w.. uiiierenc lorma of eczema, accompanied by severe itching and caused by imperfect digestion and aiet T". 1-UBlH.m COm PR in (tit, but fifty cents' worth will answer in curing any of the diseases mentioned, it can be had of any druggist. Fred A. C ""Kes a specialty of It. That results are immriiaf amply demonstrated overnight by the use of the experimental amr,l whir-h the Emergency Laboratories, 32 West Twenty-fifth street. New York City, will send free by mail, in plain wrap- mj c who wiu write ror It. THE COLOSSUS OP THE AGES. question of Senator Carey admited he would like to have quails protected lor luo years. I haven't much use for a sport," said Senator Hamilton, "but I have great respect for a SDortsman. I be lieve a certain amount of recreation is as necessary to the healthful man as three meals a day. Hunting is a great exercise and pleasure. Much is said concerning the interests of the far mers, but there are more people liv ing in the cities srsd towns than in the country and I think the city people ought to have a right to live and en joy existence the same as the people who live on farms, even if the latter are opposed to it." Senators Potter and Denton opposed tne Dill on the ground that It was un reasonable. The question was then submitted to a vote and the bill was defeated. This was the first bill that has been killed by the whole senate during tne present session. Hill on Absolute Prohibition, When the committee of the whole arose Senator Price obtained unani mous consent for the suspension of tne rules ana the reading for the third time of the bill providing for absolute prohibition. The bill was read, the amendments of Senator Price, restor ing to the attorney general and coun ty attorneys inquisitorial powers, be ing Included. At the conclusion of the reading the bill was passed. Senator Stillings of Leavenworth being the only senator voting against the bill. Senators Anderson, Denton and Milton were absent. A concurrent resolution was intro duced by Senator Quincy urging the Kansas representatives in congress to work for an amendment to the con stitution of the United States provid ing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The senate adopted Representative Westcott.s concurrent resolution urg ing the Kansas representatives in con gress to try and secure passage of a law imposing a duty on zinc ores brought into the United States. At 6 p. m. the senate took a recess until the 7:3-0 p. m. meeting. Bills Introduced. The following bills have been in troduced in the senate: S. B. No. 515. By Committee on Assessment and Taxation. An act re lating to the assessment and taxation of assets and stock of building and loan associations. S. B. No. 516. By Fagerberg An act making appropriations for the Orphan's home of the Evangelical Lutheran Kansas conference at Cle burne for, the years 1910 and 1911. S. B. No. 517. By Fagerberg An act relating to peddlers. S. B. No. 518. By Price An act to authorize the board of county com missioners of counties having a population of over 10,000 to levy a special tax Substitute for S. B. No. 3. By Glenn An act relating to school bonds. S. B. No. 519. By Stavely An act to prevent school district boards in certain cases, from binding school districts by contracts to pay any money. S. B. No. 520. By Committee on Assessment and Taxation An act regulating express companies. S. B. No. 521. By Committee Assessment and Taxation An act to provide for the assessment and taxation of legacies. S. B. No. 522. By Milton An act relating to tax levies in cities of the first class of 50.000'. S. B. No. 623. By Hunter An act relating to the payment of taxes. S. B. No. 52 4. By Murpney An act to provide for the payment of the state agent at Washington, D. C, for prosecuting a certain claim against the United States. S. B. No. 525. By Smith An act fixing fees for county attorneys. S. B. No. 526. By Smith An act to exempt from prosecution or punishment any person testifying as a witness in any action brought under the bucket shop law. S. B. No. 527. By Leidy (By re quest)-" An act providing for annual conference by county superintendents of public instruction. S. B. No. 528.. By Leidy (By re quest) An act relating to school dis tricts furnishing text books. S. B. No. 529. By Stillings An act to provide for an asylum for mentally infirm and dangerous persons. S. B. No. 5 30. By Carey (By re quest) An act relating to private corporations. S. B. No. 531. By Travis (By re- auest) An act to regulate the prac tice of medicine, surgery and osteopath. S. B. No. 532. By Committee on Second and Third Class Cities An act authorizing cities of the second and third classes to construct and maintain systems of sewerage. S. B. No. 533. By Travis An act authorizing the creation of private domestic corporations to insure against general casualties and other commercial risks. S B. No. 534. By Committee on Cities of the Second and Third Class An act relating to sewers in cities of the second class. ENJ0YSA110LIDAY Legislature Forgets Work and Goes on a Visit. House Labored Until a Hour Last Eyening. Late PROTECT THE PUBLIC. Regulations for Cases of Tuber culosis Are Adopted. Quindaro Students Treat Mem bers of House to a Concert. Today a legal holiday in Kansas, and made such by a Kansas legisla ture, as the anniversary of Lincoln's birth, it would hardly appear proper for a legislature of this state to work on that day, no matter how much it had to do, so the law makers have gone to Lawrence to be the guests for the day of the state university. The house worked until 5 o'clock Thursday evening on bills in the com mittee of the whole. The most im portant act considered during the day was the bill defining the powers and duties of local health officers and boards of health" in the matter of the protection of the people of the state from the disease known as tuberculo sis. By this act tuberculosis is declar ed to be an infectious and communi cable disease, dangerous to the public health. Physicians must report in writing every case of this disease they attend to the board of health and all precautions taken as in the case of scarlet fever or any other infectious disease. Any person afflicted with tu berculosis who shall be careless to such a degree as to expose other per sons to danger of infection shall upon conviction be subject to a fine. The bill is a long one and while it has many restrictions it works no hardship upon consumptives they are required to be careful and to follow certain rules dictated by common sense and medical science, that is all. The bill was recommended for passage. The bill by Brown of Kingman en abling school districts to issue bonds to pay outstanding indebtedness was also recommended for passage- and Landrey's- bill authorizing cities of the second class to issue bonds to fund their floating indebtedness. The house was working on the weights and measures bill when 5 o'clock came and it adjourned to hear the concert by the pupils of the Quin dare Colored college. W. T. Vernon, president of the college, and the mem bers of the faculty were received by Speaker Dolley and given a place on the platform in front of the speaker's desk. The choral society of the col lege, composed of a dozen mixed voices, occupied the space to the right of the speaker's desk and sang for the delighted members and an audience of visitors that thronged representative hall. Most negroes have fine voices, but these were of the best and they had been trained with care and judg ment. They sang selections from opera, camp meeting songs and a cou ple of Stephen C. Foster s matcniess melodies of the old days of the south. It was a great treat. The band came next and this organization showed the result of training by a talented musi cian. This band or negro Doys aia not merely play pieces, it was a concert that it gave for the members of the house yesterday. At the close of the program there were calls for Vernon and the talented president of Quin daro resDonded with a short address. There are few better public speakers In the west than this coal black negro and his common sense and good judg ment have done wonders for his race in this state. At the close of his speech yesterday he present to Speaker Dolley handsome gavel which he declared had been tufned by the students of Quindaro in their carpenter shop for the speaker. Mr. Dolley responded by a short talk in which he paid tribute to the work done at Quindaro and promised his support and influence for as large an appropriation for that In stitution this year as the state could afford to give. The Quindaro people and students made a hit with the house. Before coming up to the house they gave a concert in the governor s office for the benefit of the man from Lawrence. Tomorrow Fresh, delicious steaming; hot Baked Deans 10c A Quart Other Specials Large Coffee Cakes, e various coatings, each. 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It Is understood that all rauroaa lines will immediately commence contem plated improvements and the construc tion of additional lines involving an ex penditure, it is said, of $10,000,000. Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. 12. Forecast for Kan sas: Unsettled weather wttn rain or snow late tonight or Saturday. Colder in east portion tonight. Bills in the House.' Bills introduced in the house yester day. H. B. No. 805. By Brown of Kingman An act relating to private corpora tions. H.-. B. No. 806. By Bryden An act to amend the session laws of 1907. H. B. No. 807- By Loofbourrow An act relating to roads and highways. H. B. No. 808. By Morgan of Hodge man An act relating to the deposit of public moneys and funds in hands of county treasurers in national and state banks in Kansas. H. B. No. 809. By Morton of Clay An act making appropriation to the Prices Cut TO COST ON Gas Goods We must sell all our Gas Lights, Mantles and Fixtures this Month. Read these NEW PRICES 75c IN VERTED LIGHTS 40o 1,000 25c MANTLES 3 FOR 25c 300 15c MANTLES 2 FOR 15c 500 10c MANTLES 5o WIZARD MANTLES 2 FOR 25o COMPLETE GAS LIGHTS 39c 2 lo 10 INCH GREEN SHADES 4 On MISSION TABLE LAMPS $3.75 Block X Mantles 15o Block X Mantles lo Globes, all prices, 4c, 5c, 6c, 7c and 10c 1 Light Fixtures 35o Brackets 15c, 25c. S6c and 50o THIS IS THE LOWEST PRICE EVER MADE ON GAS LIGHT SUP PLIES IN TOPEKA. BUY THEM NOW. H. M. Cross Cycle Co. 810 Kansas Avenue. Near the Journal Office. l A $1.00 Purchase Tomorrow Means CONFIDENCE We Back Up Our Statements With Our Personal Reputation and Money. We are so positive that we can cure constipation, no matter how chronic it may be, that we offer to furnish the medicine free of all cost IT we rail. It is worse than useless to attempt to cure constipation with cathartic drugs. Laxatives or cathartics do much harm. They cause a reaction, irritate and weaken the bowel3 and make con stiDation more chronic. Besides, their use becomes a habit that is dangerous and often fatal. Constipation is caused by weakness of the nerves and muscles or tne large intestine or descending colon. To ex pect a cure you must therefore tone up and strengthen those organs and re store them to healthier activity. The discovery of the active principle of our remedy evolved the labor of the world's greatest research chemists. It possesses all the best qualities of the remedial active principle of the best known intestinal tonics, and it is par ticularly prompt in its results. We want you to try Rexall Orderlies on our guarantee. They are exceeding ly pleasant to take ana are laeai tor children. They act directly on the nerves and muscles of the bowels. They have a neutral action on other organs or glands. They do not purge or cause any inconvenience whatever. They will positively cure chronic or habitual con stipation and the myriads of associate or dependent chronic ailments. Try Itexall Orderlies at our risk. Two sizes. 25c and 10c. Fred Snow's drug store, 6Z3 Kansas avenu, Topeka. A 25c Tooth Brash Free We believe that every pleased customer is a good advertise ment for our store and we know that once a person makes a pur chase here, he goes away a pleased customer. To induce you to visit this store tomorrow, we shall give away a genuine fine bristled high grade tooth brush, such as we retail at 2 So, with every dollars worth of goods purchased here. Many stores ask 30c and 35c for the same brush. Taylor Riddle, Jr. Druggist. 10th and Kan. nve. Phones 1039. "The place where you get what you ask for." Sun Set Home. Clay Center. H. B. No. 810. By Keraus of Trego An act relating to tally sheets to be used at all primary, general or special elections. H. B. No. 811. By Morgan of Hodge man An act to provide for the pur chase, creation, and maintenance of a salt plant at the Kansas state indus trial reformatory at Hutchinson. H. B. No. 812. By Stone of Sherman An act for the enforcement of the state live stock sanitary law. H. B. No. 813. By Boyd An act to vacate certain blocks In Sherer's ad dition to -the town of Belleville. "How cold does it get up In Alaska?" "No way of tellin'." said the returned prospector. "Mercury freezes. But you have spirit thermometers." "No g.iod. The natives drink the spirit out of thum." Philadelphia Ledger. Knlcker What is the secret of sioces? Hi..b- Da thA filnir Villi r i f 1 1 1.1 Ihave married if it hadn't been for you. New York Sun.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTBITAL FRIDAY EVENING- F2BBUAEY 12, 1CC3. SOLOflSJJ U. Kansas legislature Is Accorded an Enthusiastic Reception. Met at the Train by Brass Band and Automobiles. PARADE TO 3IT. OREAD Lincoln Memorial Exercises Held in Xew Gymnasium. Addressed by Chancellor Strong and J. W. Gleed. Lawrence, Feb. 12. The Lincoln day legislative visit here today proved to be a roost delightful outing. More than four hundred senators, represen tatives and their families and legisla tive employes participated in the ex cursion, a special train of eight coaches being necessary to convev the party from the capital city to the i

iu la. iue eyctiai icll me i Union Pacific depot at 8:30 and rived at Lawrence at 9:30. Upon leaving the train at Lawrence the visitors were loaded into automo biles, carriages and other vehicles and taken for a trip through the city etreets to the university. A corps of automobiles carrying a few legislators and a number of state officials and J employes led the procession through 1 the streets followed by the rest of the i legislators and their families in car riages, the merry villagers bringing up the rear on foot. The Haskell In dian cadets wer lined up on either side of the street just across the bridge. All the sidewalks of the prin cipal streets were crowded with citi- i zens who turned out to see the big procession. Three bands, the Haskell bugle corps, and a university band furnished music during the trip to Mount Oread. On the campus all the university students, more than 2,250 in number, were lined along both sides of the street leading to the university build ing, and as the procession passed, the visitors were welcomed with repeti tions of the college yell, "Rock chalk! Jay Hawk! K. U." The visitors left the automobiles and carriages at Snow hall and at 11 o'clock students and legislators marched In a body to Rob inson's gymnasium for the Lincoln day memorial exercises. The large gymnasium was filled to its capacity and as the legislators entered and took their places on the platform, they were greeted by college yells of the students. The legislator's families were also accorded a demonstration". The exercises. commemorating the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, were under the au spices of the G. A. R. and the ad dresses appropriate to the day. were delivered by Chancellor Frank Strong of the university and J. Willis Gleed of Topeka. Reads Gettysburg Address. Chancellor Strong spoke of the great emancipator and read Lincoln's im mortal Gettysburg address. Mr. Gleed spoke of the personal and public character of Lincoln and told of his early environments and his struggles through which he had attain ed his principles and statesmanship. His address was a comprehensive bio graphy of the martyred president and the sentiments expressed were heartily arplauded. Following the memorial exercises the visitors were escorted to the auditor ium of the gymnasium where an elab orate dinner was served. A bevy of attractive university students served the guests. So attractive were some of the waitresses that it was declared that a number of senators and representa tives neglected their gastronomic duty In order to feast their eyes upon those who served the repast. When dinner was finished, the legislative party vis ited the various college buildings and were given demonstrations of the prac tical work of the university. A large number of exhibits had been prepared and the features of each were explain ed by the professors of the several de partments. The rest of the afternoon will be spent in further inspection of the university, and at 5:45 the Junket will board the train for Topeka. They are expected to arrive about 6:30 o'clock this evening. Our purpose in having the legislature visit the university was to win the favor of the law-makers for an appropriation of J1.20O.00O for a new building and general support. All the members of the legislature appear ed favorably Impressed with what they saw at the college and it is ventured that the trip did not hurt the chances for the appropriation in the least. you have not look ed us up yet you will find it to your ad vantage to do so. Pure Buckwheat, lb 4c Cracked Hominy, lb-.-2Mc Hemp or Canary Seed 6c Good New Rice, lb 6c Granite Drinking Cup... 5c Galvanized Water Pail 15c Our 20c Red Pkg Coffee 18c if 10c Pkg. Best Soda 7c 25c Pkg. Washing Pwd. 15c 25c bot. Snyder's Catsup 1 9c Cooking Figs, lb 6c Special for Saturday Fine Celery 6c Come Get Your Goods Pay Cash and Save Money GROCERS 206 East Fourth St. OWL LINCOLN CENTENARY. (Continued from Page One.) allowed to brine- his vehicle within this gate there was a forking delta of I humanity and color setting toward ana around the cabin during the time be fore the ceremonies and when it was seen that there was no more room within the tent. Five Special Trains. Five special trains that set out early irom jouisvine Kept me air in iae ui- tie town vibrating with their whistles until near the hour of the dedication. The first came at 7:35 o'clock with spectators aooara; me secona auu third an hour apart and the fourth arriving at 11 o'clock brought Gover nor Augustus E. Willson of Kentucky and his company and staff. A long drawn out toot at a quarter of noon announced to the waiting hundreds surrounding the station, the president's train and when it pulled in and the distinguished citizen alighted, the air cracked with cheers. When the president, his wife and daughter with Secretary Loeb had en tered the two closed carriage reserved for them and the band and Company F of the First Kentucky regiment had formed at the beginning of the line, the parade was ready to move on to the cabin site. Following the band and the soldiers came Governor Wlllson and his staff, a5f, V"cl.'B cmfaa uniform and after these the centenary committee No traffic was permitted on the road during the passage of the procession, but its sides, policed by mounted of ficers, were lined with legious of the curious. The parade drew up at the side of the cabin and the governor, the presi dent. Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt. Mr. Loeb and members of the centen- ary committee entered the tent to the applause of its occupants and took their seats on a improvised platform near the flower mantled cabin. Close to this lay the cornerstone of the new memorial temple in its bed of mortar, and a derrick was manned, ready to raise the huge stone into place, when the president had spread the cement on its broad side with the ilver trowel, which lay upon the ros trum. Following the delivery of the impressive invocation. Former Gover nor Joseph Folk, of Missouri, who is president of the Lincoln Memorial as sociation uttered some introductory re marks, telling the purpose of the asso ciation. He was followed by President Roosevelt, who laid the corner stone, putting into its receptacle proper pa pers which were sealed by Nicholas Kaenegstein of Hodgenvllle, and the stone raised into place. SHE WAS IN ALABAMA. Mrs. Lincoln W'as in Selma at the Be ginning of Secession. Anniston, Ala., reo. iz. Apropos f the Lincoln, centenary the fact that Mrs. Lincoln was in Alabama at the time that war between the states was begun, will probably be an item of in terest. An old citizen said today: "I was in Selma, Ala., in December, 1860, I believe It was, when the news of the secession of South Carolina was received. There was a great celebra tion there on receipt of the news and numerous cannon shots were fired across the river. .1 do not know whether Mrs. Lincoln was there at that time or not, but when, we return ed, we again stopped at the Gee house,' in January, 1861, and while there Mrs. Lincoln and her sister. Miss Todd were pointed out to me by Mr. William Randolph, a brother of Judge G. B. Randolph of this city. She was a tall, stately woman and was the center of attraction at the hotel." Judge Randolph states that the probable cause of Mrs. Lincoln's visit to Selma on this occasion was to at tend the ante-nuptial events attend ing the marriage of her sister to Col. N. H. R. Dawson, of that city, who was afterwards United States commis sioner of schools under President Cleveland. In this connection, it will be an In teresting feature by way of showing how families were divided at this time, to state that the brother of Judge Randolph enlisted under the Confederate colors and was killed at Gettysburg, while Judge Randolph, who was living in Kentucky at the time, joined the union forces. NEW YORKTiNCOLN DAY Booming of Guns Early This Morning Characterizes Opening. New York. Feb. 12. The booming of guns at Fort Hamilton, Fort Wads worth on Governors Island, from ships in the harbor and by batteries of National Guard early this morning ushered in the celebration in this city of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. As the city bestirred itself, thou sands who remained at home for the holiday prepared to go to church and synagogues for services in honor of the great emancipator, while thousands of school children made preparations for exercises at the 561 schools through out Greater New Tork. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the exercises in Cooper union, with Mayor McClellan presid ing, began. Perhaps the greatest celebration of the day will be held in Carnegie hall tonight where Gen. Horace Porter will preside and a chorus of 500 from the United German Singing societies as one of the special features. Other celebrations will be held at the uni versity of the city of New Tork and the various armories in the city in ad dition to other minor ceremonies. lincoInrelics. Two Exhibits Are Opened to the Pub lic in New York. New Tork. Feb. 12. Two exhibits of Lincoln relics were opened to public view today, one at Columbia university the other at the College of the City of New York. The projectors of the Co lumbia exhibition assert that they have the finest showing of Lincoln manuscripts ever brought together in one exhibit. Loans have been made by collectors in all parts of the country. One of the most striking features of the exhibit is the manuscript of the original notes of the Gettysburg ad dress, lent by W. J. H. Bliss of Balti more. The manuscript .was given by President Lincoln to Mr. Bliss' father, CoL Alexander Bliss, who was one of the military officers who accompanied the president to Gettysburg when the address was delivered. Robert T. Lincoln, the president's son. has also contributed some Interesting manuscripts, among them that of the emancipation proclamation and the correspondence between Lincoln and Secretaries Seward an4 Chase over 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 t tt iniinn Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation of emancl- pation was issued by President Lincoln January 1, 1863. It re- cited the preliminary doeu- ment, and then designated the states in rebellion against the United States. They were Arkansas, Texas, a part of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Caroliha, and Virginia, excepting certain counties. The proclamation then continued: j i 1 4, "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the executive govern- ment of the United States in- eluding the military and naval authorities thereof, will recog- nize and maintain the freedom of said persons." The criticisms and forebod- ,ings of the opponents of emu- clpation had well-nigh been exhausted during the previous three months, and the de- finltive proclamation was re- ceived with general enthusiasm throughout the loyal states. The dissatisraction wttn which this important measure w.im reo-Arrieri in the border states gradually died away, as did also the opposition in con- servative quarters to the en- Ustment nf neero soldiers. Their good conduct, their auick submission to discipline, nnrt their excellent behavior in several battles, rapidly made an end of the prejudice against them. miin 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 i their resignations in the cabinet crisis of 1862. J. Pierpont Morgan has lent an orig inal copy of Lincoln's notes for the nrst Douglas debate and also a manuscript copy of some unpublished verses writ ten by Lincoln In 1848 and entitled "The Bear Hunt." The City college exhibit has been made up entirely from New Tork city collections of Lincoln relics. It con tains several originals of Lincoln's commissions to his generals in the war and also shows original copies of the New Tork papers describing the assas sination and death of Lincoln. FISH DAY FOR TAFT. Red Snapper and Oysters Features of tbe Banquet. New Orleans, La., Feb. 12. Today being Friday, fish will be a notable feature of the great banquet in honor of President-elect Taft. the city's highly honored guest, and In the serv ing of fish to a distinguished visitor, New Orleans will, In a culinary sense h at her best, for with the oyster producing waters of Lakes Pontchar train and Borgne, and many bayous and inlets and banks of the Mexican gulf to draw from this city has avail able a marvelous variety of the finest fish in the world. The receipt for "buillabaise," one of the principal dishes includes six slices of red snapper, six slices of red fish, half bottle white wine, half lemon, six large fresh tomatoes, three onions, three cloves of garlic and three bay leaves. This is the dish that drew from Thackeray the re mark that "In New Orleans you can get a buillabaise the like of which was never eaten in Marseilles or Paris The reception to the president-elect having been well accomplished, all energies were directed today toward the final details in connection with the banauet tonight. With one thousand subscribers at $25 a plate, the committee havlng'the affair in charge, directed the chefs to do their best in their a la creole preparations and to spare no expense. Today's orommme follows: ReceDtlon at Pelican park under the auspices of the local negro T. M. C! A. Automobile tour of city, fol lowed by luncheon at Country club. Banquet at 7:30 p. m. GETTYSBURGSPEECH. Is Made in the House of Representa tives by Boutelle. Washington, Feb. 12. Except for the proceedings of the lower house of congress the wheels of the govern ment were stopped today in honor of the Lincoln anniversary- The senate had adjourned over un til Monday, but in the house Lincoln's famous Gettysburg speech was read hv T?onresentatlve Boutelle. (111.) Appropriate exercises were held at Howard university, wnere m latsc student bodies witnessed the unveiling of a large painting of "The under ground railway." FIFTY WTINGS. Chicago Is Given Over to Celebration of Lincoln Bay. Chicago. Feb. 12. Fifty public meet ings, a city fairly burled beneath flags, bunting and portraits of Abraham Lin coln, show windows filled with civil war relics and Lincoln mementoes ana streets crowded wiin marcners ana mil itary bands this Is the spectacle which Chicago presented today in the cele bration of the one hundredth anniver sary of the birth of President Lincoln. The federal, county ana municipal de partments and branches of business were closed to make the holiday a pro ner climax to Lincoln centennial week. At the principal demonstration of the day, held at the auditorium, the orator was Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university .and the invocation was delivered by Rev. Father Maurice J Dorney of Chicago. .William J. Cal houn was cnairman. This was followed by the firing of a Fresh Roasted 7-9-11 COFFEE 20c a Pound CHAS. McCUNTOCK Tea Coffee China Best for the Price presidential salute by civil war veter ans at a spot near Lincoln monument. in Lincoln park. A feature of another meeting was the arrangements of members of a chorus to represent a gl HAD NO SPECIAL GIFT. President Woodrovr "Wilson Says Lin coln Was of General Use. Chicago, Feb. 12. President Wood row Wilson of Princeton university de livered the principal address at the Lincoln centenary celebration at the Auditorium here today. Mr. Wilson said in substance: "It was a very full century thaf has gone by since Abraham Lincoln was born, a century crowded for all the world, but particularly for America, with significant event which men could never turn back from nor forget. And Lincoln seems for us the epitome of much that it contained. The nine teenth century hurried the world for ward with giant strides, and that far year 1809, which lay almost at its be ginning, saw many a man of genius born into the world who was to add lustre to its annals: Alfred Tennyson, our own Poe. Chopin, Mendelssohn, Charles Darwin, Gladstone. Lincoln. Merely read the list in its singular variety and you will be conscious that the ia3t name strikes upon the ear with a significance all its own, so unique and separate that it does not seem to belong In a list of names at all, but to embody something complete in itself, as the name of Shakespeare does. "Every other man on that great roll had some characteristic gift of his own; the music and interpretation of perfect speech, or of the perfect har monies of voice or Instrument, or in sight into the great processes of na ture, akin to Newton's; or the elo quence that stirs and guides a nation and determines the politics of the world. But the man Lincoln had no special gift. He was of general use. He was like some great instrument bf humanity. Wherever life touched him, he spoke back Its meaning, gave forth fire to kindle its life. Kach power slumbered In him and waited to be awakened. "He seemed slow of development, waited upon circumstances to quicken him, but always responded upon what ever scale the chaNenge came,, seemed a great reservoir of living water which could bo freely quaffed but not ex hausted. "There was something native, natural rather than singular, and wholly inex haustible about him. His nature sug gested always a richness that had only been partly drawn upon, and his life ended as if unfinished, fuller of prom ise than when It began. His charac ter stands colossal there amidst that troubled history of war and disunion, like one of Rodin's only half moulded 1 figures, revealing less than it suggests, only in part disclosed, shrouded in lines that lead the Imagination off into infinity and very great conjecture. "There -was, of course, the special flavour of America about Lincoln. He belonged to the now fast disappearing type of the frontier. He was bred where states were forming-. There seems something- specially 'native' about him therefore, nationally fla voured, locally distinctive. His origin could never be mistaken. He could have been born and matured only in America, was redolent of its soil, sug gested always Its "conditions and its forms of natural life." IN MANILA SCHOOLS. Patriotic Exercisei "In Memory Abraham Lincoln. Manila. Feb. 12. The Lincoln cen tenary was generally observed through out the islands today by patriotic ex ercises held In the schools. The chief meeting held In Manila was presided over by Governor General James Smith. The principal address was made by Justice Johnson of Manila. THE DAY AT PEORIA. A Banquet Tonight to Be Addressed by Prominent Speakers. Peoria, 111., Feb. 12. Celebration of the 100th birthday anniversary of Abraham Lincoln was begun by the Creve Coeur club today. Tonight speakers of national and international reputation will participate in a ban quet. The speakers include Baron Kosroro Takahira, ambassador from Japan; Prof. John C. Freman of the University of Wisconsin; ex-Governor Charles Maroon of Cuba and Gover nor Curtis Guild, jr.. of Massachusetts. The coming of Baron Takahira was mainly brought about by the personal effort of President Roosevelt, who urged the ambassador to attend the celebration at this time, because of the clarifying effect It would have on the atmosphere concerning the un easy feeling existing on the western coast. ROOSEVELT IS WARY. 19 Quoted hS BeliiK Distrustful of the Japanese. Kalamazoo, Mich.. Feb. 12. In his address before the Lincoln club last night. Congressman Duncan E. McKin lay of California, quoted President Roosevelt as being distrustful of the Japanese. Congressman McKlnlay said: The president saia xo tne jamorma congressmen that we must preserve our lands for the white man ana that ne was with us in our fight to bar Asiatic labor. "But. said the president, Japan is a powerful nation and we don't know what atutuae ner statesmen win as sume toward us. If the difficulty were with England I woula have- a hundred years or preceaem 10 sums my ac tion. Nor would the kaiser strike us in the back, but would meet us on level ground and on even terms. But we can not tell what this new nation will do. You must be patient and I will endeavor to negotiate a treaty with Japan under which Japan will herself bold back her people from our con tinent. MERCURY TAKES A DROP. Down to 26 Decrees This Afternoon and Still Goinz. The cold wave is coming. Just be fore noon today the mercury took a drop of eleven degrees and has been on the downward pah ever since. The weather will be much colder tonight, although the minimum will likely be higher than was at first expected. The wind today is 18 miles an hour from the north. The following are the temperatures. 7 o'clock 47 111 o'clock 45 S o'clock 47 112 o'clock 34 9 o'clock 46 1 1 o'clock 28 10 o'clock 47 1 J o'clock 2 ARE FARAPART. Wireless Station Is in Touch TVith the Fleets Of Both the Atlantic and Pacif ic at the Same Time. THE FIRST MESSAGE From Returning Battleships to Beach This Side. They Are Still 2,000 Miles From Hampton Boads. New Tork. Feb. 12. A wireless mes sage from the tender Tankton, which is preceding the Atlantic battleship fleet now on its way to Hampton Roads, after Its cruise around the world, was picked up shortly after four o'clock this morning by the wireless station on Fire island. The message was as follows: "Tankton, 8 p. m., February 11, lati tude 32.44 north; longitude 62.04 west. Fleet 34.3 north; 39.19 west. Fine weather; speed 10 knots. Cruise un eventful." This is the first wireless communica tion received On this sld of th At lantic from the fleet or from any vessel accompanying it since its departure from Gibraltar. Receiving stations in tnis vicinity have thus achieved a re markable record in the last 24 hours In picking up messages from both the At lantic and the Pacific fleet, a communi cation from the battleship New Hamp shire somewhere in southern waters, having been picked np by the Coney island station of the United Wireless company last night. Another dispatch from the Yankton timed at 8 p. m., on February 11, pre sumably one of several she had sent In an effort to communicate with the shore, was received by the navy wire less station at Fire Island early today. It was less explicit in some ways than the dispatch previously given, but con tained the important information that the Tankton expected to arrive at Hampton Roads on Wednesday next. The dispatch gave the position of the tender as previously indicated .and her course as "north 73 west" and added: "Smooth sea. Expect to arrive at Hampton Roads Wednesday. (Signed.) "MeVAY." According to the longitude and lati tude as given by the Tankton's com mander, the battleships are about 1,080 miles west of Gibraltar, with the Tank ton 945 miles ahead. This places the Tankton only 640 miles east of Ber muda and the fleet a little over 2,000 miles from Hampton Roads. The schedule as announced before the departure of the vessels from Gibraltar said that thev would reach Hampton Roads about February 22 or 23. but if their nosition as indicated by the wire less is correct at the present rate of speed they would arrive on February 19 or 20. They left Gibraltar February 8. In a longitudinal position the ships last night were about 20 miles south of the Azores, which places them a little south of a line drawn directly west from Gibraltar. WILL BE 25 SHIPS. In Admiral S perry's Fleet When He Reaches Hampton 1 toads. Washington, Feb. 12. The Atlantic battleship fleet's position at 8 o'clock last night was about 120 miles south west of Fayal, in the Azores, accord ing to a wireless dispatch from Ad miral Sperry to the navy department received today. The message had re layed from the Connecticut to the auxiliary cruiser Tankton, a distance of 1.200 miles. The Tankton then was about 900 miles from the navy depart ment wireless telegraph stations at Portsmouth, X. H.. and Fire Island. N. T.. both of which stations received the message and forwarded it to the department. Admiral Arnold, commanding the third squadron which left Guantana mo, Cuba, on Wednesday, has sent a wireless dispatch to the department stating that his flagship, the Maine, and the battleships New Hanmpshire and Mississippi were at 8 o'clock last night in altitude 22 degrees 27 min utes north. an1 'nnc-'tn- ti and 47 minutes west, which, is about 100 miles north of HaytL It has been decided tat 8 battle ships of Admiral Sperry's fleet will be sent to their home navy yards a few days- after their arrival and reviewed by the president. The eight others will remain at anchor In Hampton Roads until after the first week in March. The navy department today sent a wireless menage to Admiral Sperry asking him to designate the ships which shall remain. It is certain that the Illinois. Kear sarge and Kentucky will be three of the eight. The men of these ships will come to Washington to participate in the in augural parade on March 4. Squadrons Will Tnlte. In. latitude 35 degrees north and longitude 55 west, on the morning of Wednesday, February 17, Admiral Sperry's two squadrons of the battle ship fleet will be joined by the third squadron of the fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Arnold. This will add to Admiral Sperry's command nine more With the full Atlantic fleet under his Violets! Violets! VIOLETS! Just the flowers for VALENTINES Potted Blooming Plants OF ALL KINDS AT 807 -KANSAS AVEXUE 807 IP STOCK To Insure Yourselves Oest Results Consign To Clay, Robinson Co., Lira Stock Ccsslsslsa Mercr&, Sleek Yards, Kansas City. wi uo mm ovnmonwi aTcxiCAea to. rr. kfscpn. SO. MAMA. OENVCR. SWUX Clf. Ml ST. PAUL. C. BuFFAU)! command, Admiral Sperry will put the 25 vessels through a series of fleet ma neuvers on the trip from the meeting place to Hampton Roads. The dis tance Is a little over 1.000 miles. While the rate of speed at which the fleet was traveling last night, if main tained would bring the vessels Into Hampton Rados before the time they are scheduled to arrive it was stated at the navy department that none of the vessels will enter the roads before the designated time. Admiral Sperry has sent word to the department that he will arrive at the tail of the horseshoe at 11 a, m. February 22 and pass in be tween that time and 1:30 p. m.. when the vessels will cast anchor in the roads.' The president and the secretary of the navy will review the fleet as it passes in and at 2 p. m. will receive the admiral and flag officers on board the Mayflower. It was explained that the surplus time which the fleet has will be devoted to maneuvers after the third squadron has joined It. "MALICE TOWARD NONE" Lincoln's Famous Second Inaugural in Foil. March 4. 1865. The Second Inaugural Address, March 4th. 1865. Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presi dential office, there Is less occasion for an extended address than there 'was at first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seem ed fitting and proper. Now, at the ex piration of four years, during which public declarations have been constant ly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and -engrosses the en ergies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reason ably satisfactory and encouraging to alL With high hopes for the future, no prediction in regard to It Is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anx iously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert It. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves; not distributed generally over the union, but localized In the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and pow erful interest. All knew that this. in terest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the union, even by war; while the govern ment claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial en largement of it. N Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anti cipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Kach looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astound ing. Both read .the same Bible, and rpayed to the same God: and each in vokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a Just God's as sistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of of fenses! for it must needs be that of fenses come: but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the province of God must needs come, but which having continued through his appoint ed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the be lievers in a living God. always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope fervently do we pray that this mighty scourage of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's 250 years of unrequitted toll shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said 3,- 000 years ago, so still it must be said. "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none; with chair Ity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his or phan; to do all which may achieve and cherish a Just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. NO $20,000 FOR K. V. Clalni for Destruction of Free State Hotel Dies in Congress. Washington, Feb. 12. The omnibus claim bill is dead for this congress and with it goes the claim of the state of Kansas for $20,000 for the University of Kansas, growing out of the destruc tion of the old Free State hotel at Lawrence. The omnibus claims bill as originally passed by the house of representatives carried but J300.000. In the senate It was increased' to nearly three million il.m mostlv southern war claims. 1 When it went back to the house, It 1 took its place on the calendar, and in it !ni was called no. There were viv. to nmcpfii- Concur in the w-nate amendments, or disagree to them and ask for a conference. Mr. Amuri o Illinois objected to the bill when it was reached, and so did vari ous others. The result was that, while it retains its place on the calendar, it is practically dead for this congress The Free State hotel claim was placed on the bill in the senate, through the efforts of Senators Long 1 and Curtis. SHIPPERS J i L. M. Penwell Undertaker and Embalrner 511 Qalocy Street Both Pbooet 192 TOO LATE TO CLAKNIKi'. 907 Morris ave.. city. FOR SALE Three cows. 2 fresh; other fresh auoa. Ind. 2934 Ring 2. LOST Gray squirrel neck lace. Reward fur return to the office of Warren M. Crosby Co. HE MUST HAVE KIIOX. Taft Wires Leaders hi Congress Re garding His Wishes. New Orleans. La.. Feb. 12. President-elect Taft today gave out th telegrams exchanged between him and Senator Knox which seem to fur nish a solution to the constitutional difficulty wliich has risen In connec tion with Secretary Knox's eligibility for a place In Judge Taffs cabinet. Senator Knox wired Judge Taft as follows: "A bill has been Introduced In the senate to remove the constitutional bar to my eligibility to the cabinet by repealing the act providing for an In crease in salary for the secretary of state. I am in no way promoting cr having anything to do with the meas ure. "It is a matter for you as the appointive power to first determine whether the proposed action is de sirable or would be effective. Our minds should be free from ail doubt concerning the legality and propriety of the proposed plan be fore acquiescing In it. If you have any reason for not approving what is being done it should be announced, otherwise an injustice may be done whoever may be appointed. "P. C. KNOX." Judge Taft today sent In' reply ths following: "I sincerely hope that the bill re pealing the Increase In salary for the secretary of state will pass. I have no doubt that that will remove all the difficulties of the situation in the light of its purpose. I should re gard your Ineligibility at this time as a great public misfortune and It would be a personal disappointment to me too great for me to express. "I have telegraphed Senator Hale, Speaker Cannon and Mr. Payne of my wishes and hopes In this resrard. "W. H. TAFT." SUNK IN THE POTOMAC. Story of the Disposal of Booth's Body Is Recalled. Salem, Ohio, Feb. 12. That ths body of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was tossed Into the Potomac river and not burled In the Booth family plot, is the belief of R. B. Thompson, a newspaper man of this city. Mr. Thompson bases his statement on the revelation of the se cret made to him eight years ago by Captain E. W. Hilliard, then com mander of Tom Smith post grand army of the republic. Metropolis, III. Captain Hilliard who died a few years ago, told Mr. Thompson that he and four privates of Sheridan's army reported for duty at the old capitol prison in Washington one night a few weeks after the assassination and in company of a surgeon and corporal Booths corpse, disfigured by burns was removed from under a stone slab wrapped In a tarpaulin and carried to a gunboat In waiting. The vessel dropped down the river ten miles and the assassin's body, weighted was placed on a plank and shoved Into the river. All concerned were bound to profound secrecy and Mr. Thompson says Captain Hilliard told him th tale most reluctantly having Inadver tently given a clew at the time of President McKiniey's death. ALL ARE pTeASED. Japanese and Americans at Feel Greatly Relieved. Tokk Tokio. Feb. 12. Lengthy cables, con veying from correspondents In America news of the rejection of anti-Japanese legislation by the California legislature have been received here with Intense satisfaction in official and business cir cles and publication of this informa tion together with expressions of fa vorable opinion by President Roose velt and the governors of several states has greatly Improved the .situation. Resolutions adopted by the New Tork legislature and in other parts of tha United States were received with simi lar appreaiation. The leading papers today print edi torial congratulations at the outcome of the affair and all Americans resid ing in the empire are much relieved. DID HE DISCOVER CHLOROFORM? This Question With Reference to Dr. Guthrie Will Be Settled. Chicago. Feb. 12. The claim of Dr. Samuel Guthrie as the discoverer of chloroform, is to be Investigated by the Chicago Medical society. A special com mi Life nao into the records of the past. The recent death of Osslan Guthrie, son of Dr. Guthrie, has brought tha 'dispute up at this time. An Immense bowlder is owned by the descendants of Dr. Guthrie, and it Is desired to place it in a park with a suitable tab let in his memory. The commissioners are willing to accept the bowlder as a niece of scenery, but refuse to allow lany inscription. The medical society feels that something should be done to .settle the question of tne discovery. C W. Willi ts, undertaker.

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