The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 5, 1910

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EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT. EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READS IT. LAST EDITION. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS. JANUARY 5, 1910. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. y COST OFilVING. Senator Bristow's Interview Which Caused a Stir. Blames Trusts for High Price of Foodstuffs. 110W 31 EAT IS SOLD. lie Explains Plans Followed by the Packers. Farmer in Position Where He Can Not Combine. Washington, Jan. 5. In an interview riven the Washington Kvening Times, Senator J. L. Bristow, of Kansas, an alyzes causes of high cost of living by Maming combines on foods. The in terview follows: In the line of the purpose of the Re publican progressives in congress to force national attention to the increas ed cost of living. Senator Bristow of Kansas, another of the men who voted against the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, today made declaration of his opinions on this subject. "The increased cost of living cannot be attributed to any cause; or, rather, it is due to a combination of a hundred causes,-' he said. The chief is the tend ency to combinations of men who con trol commodities and fix arbitrary Trices on them." "Do you mean combinations at the too, among the original producers, or at" the bottom, among the dealers? "wfts asked "That depends on the commodity." replied Senator Bristow. "The exces sive cost of meat is due to the pack ers" combine, and its close relation to ti e transportation companies. Tne price of meat is largely determined by the combination of the packers and the raiiroads. Let me illustrate. "Recently at Goodland. Kan., 400 miles northwest of Kansas City. I asked a retail meat dealer where he got his meats. He said it came, dressed, from Kansas City packers. History of Meat. "Now, let me explain the history of that meat he was selling. It was raited out in western Kansas. Later, it was shipped from the grass country to central or eastern Kansas, to be fed f;nd finishfcd on corn. Then the finished animals were shipped to Kansas City, bought, butchered, dressed and the carcasses shipped back to my friend at doodland to be retailed. Or, it may be that the animal was raised out in the range country; shipped to Kansas City as a feeder; bought there by a farmer' who had the corn and wanted to finish a bunch of cattle on it; ship ped back to that man's place In the orn belt: fed .and shippe-2 again to Kansas City; slaughtered, and the moat once more shipped westward to the place of sale. T "That makes four trips by rail, two eastward and two westward; two commissions to be paid on transac tions at the Kansas City stock yards; r profit to go in for each transaction. To the original cost must be added sll that freight. It all must be added in making up the price the retail Viutcher charges. "In the old days when the local butcher killed his own beef, I lived lor a time at Lawrence, Kan. The Armours sent agents up- there to es tablish sale for their dressed meats. With their great financial power, they were able to undersell and crush out the independent local butchers. Division of Profits. "That has gone on until the meat is generally handled in this way; the packers monopolize the business, the railroads get their share out of the huge amount of transportation that is involved, and the result is the extrav agant prices we are now paying. It is not true that the raiser of the meat, Viy reason of the fact that he is get ting a higher price for live stock, is responsible for the extreme prices to the consumer. I am in no sympathy vith the notion that the retailer is a robber. He must stand the wastes and the losses, must deliver his goods, and meet the requirements of the trade. "That is an outline of conditions af fecting meat prices. Now if you will turn to butter, eggs, poultry, and the like, you will find similar methods and like influences at work. These necessaries are gathered up and kept in storage so that they can be sold on the best possible market. It is true that there are still large chances to be taken in this business. But in a hard winter like the present, the speculator raises the price and makes a fine profit from them. The central ization and monopoly of this business is in progress, and it w-ill go right on until the control is just as powerful in this line as it now is in meats. Cannot Combine. "The farmer can't combine; there re too many of him, and his circum stances don't lend themselves to com bination. He is getting more for his stock than formerly. But I can re collect when beef cattle were worth- about $8 per hundred, some twenty five y?ars ago, and you could buy the best cuts for 16 and 17 cents the pound at retail; now they cost twice that, or more. Kight-dollar hogs are not responsible for 32-cent bacon; not by any manner of means. The in fluences that come between the far mer and the final consumer are re sponsible for that, and by far the chief of these is the combination of the packers and the railroads. "But I don't want to be understood as attributing all the increased cost of living to these things. The whole na tion is living extravagantly. I know a man who sold his home in order to buy an automobile. The lann nas coniriouiea its very important part to some of the increases in prices, and I fully agree with Sena tor Clapp, when he says that if the tariff had been reduced, as was the promise of the. Republican party. In stead of increased, it would have served as a check. "The tariff may be charged with di rect responsibility for the increases of the prices of all the products of lead; for the increases in cottons, which ought not to have been raised.' and in woolens, on which the duties ought to have been reduced. Sugar ought to be mucn cneaper man it is. Legislative Remedies. AS to legislative remedies nn..t have legislation to prevent development ad maintenance of monopolies. The legislative branch must be given pow er and the responsibility to correct these evils. In the matter of railroad rates we should provide that no rate may "be changed after the change has been approved by the interstate commerce commission. The proposed administration bill would give power to suspend a rate, in the judgment of the commission, pending investigation. That is very different, and does not go far enough. "In connection with the matter of the cost of commodities r different places, the relation of the railways to the big combine is illustrated by the prices of meats at different places. Meats are killed and dressed in Chicago, and one side of a carcass may come to Wash ington and the other half of same ani mal go a like distance west, for con sumption. "The one that goes the same .distance west, if It goes into the meat prodJ3 ing country, will retail for much less than the half that comes to Washing ton. Why? Because there is no seri ous potentiality of competition here In Washington; there is out in that west ern meat country." SNOW IN NEW YORK. Follows the Coldest Night Season. of the New York, Jan. 5. New York after the' coldest night of the winter is con fronted with a snowstorm today. During the night the minimum temperature was 9 degrees above zero. There was a biting wind. The mu nicipal lodging houses alone entertain ed nearly 500 persons, over a score of them women. A thinly-clad wanderer was picked up on the street today, dead from exposure. Philadelphia, Jan. 5. Pennsylvania todav is in the grasp of the coldest weather of the winter. The thermom eter was 9 degrees above zero at 7 o'clock this morning, the lowest of the present season and equalling the cold est day of last winter. Zero weather is reported from the mountain dis tricts of the state. St. Louis, Jan. 5. Rain which "fell during the night froze this morning and covered the streets and walks with ice half an Inch thick. Telegraph and in railway traffic whlchj will cause telephone companies experienced great grey hairs on the heads of train dls trouble with wires falling to the patchers. All trains into Topeka are ground. running from 4 to 6 hours late. The The Union station bulletin board Golden State Limited, Rock Island showed the sign "no wires'' and the: train was annulled at McFarland this arrival of trains was not posted. Most morning and came in as the first sec cf the trains arrived from one to four tlon of No. 24. It reached Topeka hours late. Trains from the north were shortly before 8 o'clock this morning reported nine hours late. instead of late Tuesday as It was Chicago, Jan. 5. Delay to steam and scheduled, elevated trains today followed the The storm which visited Topeka yes-stineinu- sleet storm of last night. A terday was general from the Rocky light rain which froze as it fell this morning made walking difficult and impeded traffic. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 5. The blizzard which prevailed throughout the night abated early today, followed by consid erably lower temperature. Considerable damage to telegraph and telephone companies was reported. Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 5. The maximum temperature of the winter, 14 below sero, was recorded at 7 a-m. today. Clear weather prevailed. Omaha. Neb., Jan." 5. Another "'low temperature record is reported by the weather bureau today. At 7 o'clock this morning the mercury registered 10 de grees below zero: RAILROAD SCHEDULES UPSET. Many 'Wires Put Out of Commission by Sleet and Snow. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 5. Railroad schedules throughout western Mis souri. Kansas and in most of Okla homa were demoralized today and telegraph and telephone wires were laden with sleet and many of them put out of commission. The snow and sleet storm of yesterday was follow ed last night by lower temperature", which, however, began to climb up ward today. The natural gas supply in Kansas City, Wichita and in other Kansas cities was still weak today and much suffering resulted. Wichita reported, 5 degrees above, Oklahoma City 14' above, and Ard raore in southern Oklahoma 22 above zero. This is unusually cold weather for Oklahoma and vegetation there has been frozen. PLENTY OF GAS. Official Report Shows Kansas Natural Has 46 Wells In Reserve, 180 in Use. Sealey L. Brown, gas inspector for Montgomery county, has Just filed his midwinter gas report. It shows that the gas shortage In Topeka and Kan sas City is not caused by any shortage of the supply in the fields. The Kan sas Natural Gas company, supplying this section, has 226 gas wells in Mont gomery county with an aggregate flow of 750,000.000 cubic feet of gas per day, and of these 226 wells, 46 are capped, which is to say, not in use. The report shows that the 455 gas wens in tne county have an aggregate flow of over a billion cubic feet per day. The Kansas Natural's 226 gas wells are in use as follows: No. wells on Topeka-K. C. line... 109 No. wells on Coffey ville line 29 No. wells on E. C.-Sycamore line. 13 No. wells on Independence line 7 No. wells on domestic farm line.. 19 No. wells on Deering line 2 No. wells on Jefferson line 1 No. wells not in use ...46 Total 226 UNLOAD ROCK ISLAND. Bears Drive the Price of Common Down Four Cents. New York, Jan. 5. Unloading of thousands of shares of Rock Island common today on the stock exchange drove the price down from 54i to 50Si and opened the flood gates of countless reports, chief of which was that Daniel G. Reid. one of the controlling interests in the railway, was reducing his com mitments preparatory to a trip to Europe. Mr. Reid v.-as at his office today and it was said there he expected to take his usual winter vacation next month. Whether Mr. Reid was selling any of ins noiaings in Rock Island could not be learned. The governors of the stock exenange win act next Wednesdav on the report of the special committee ap pointed to investigate the recent sensa tional syrocketing of Rock Island stock, which bounded from 51 to 81 and oacK again la 15 minutes. DROP BELOW ZERO Coldest Weather of the Season in Kansas. Mercury Registers Three Minus This Morning. TRAFFIC UNCERTAIN. Golden State. Limited on Rock Island Annulled. Other East Bound Trains From Four to Six Hours Late. Fifteen degrees lower than the temperature recorded at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, the mercury in the government thermometer today again smashed all cold records for the winter when it sank to the mark 3 degrees below zero. The temperature rose rapidly and indications were for a fairly warm day. The cold weather expected by- the local weather observers today arrived 12 hours ahead of schedule, and came from the northeast. This, the weath er man says, the cold spell had no business to do, as such a cold spell should go to the east and not trouble the people of this section. It "backed up" he says, and thus crowded the warm weather expected last night off the map. With one exception this is the cold est January 6 recorded in 23 years. The exception was a year ago today r-' vhe temperature registered 3 degrees below at midnight and the next morning had dropped to 8 de grees below zero. The cold and the storm or yesterday and last night nave causea a lanBio mountains to the Atlantic states, a storm center in New Mexico, which caused snow in all of the central states was pushed out of the way by the coid which backed in from Winnipeg, and the warm weather expected last night was lost. At Winnipeg yesterday the thermometer registered 36 degrees be low zero, and Topeka and Kansas got the tail of the storm. The weather is so cold that one of the instruments in the weather --office refuses to work. It is the telethermo. scope; an Instrument which shows in the office the temperature on the top of the Mulvane building. Of course the weather man will not say the cold is to blame, but he is an obstinate creature, at best, and beside, wl.at else could get wrong with such an instrument at such a time? Certainly the heat did not put it out of commission. Weather reported over Kansas this morning is generally clear and cola. with the storm abated. The heaviest snow seems to have fallen in the north west quarter of the state. Topeka is included In the district of the heaviest snowfall.. From five inches to a foot of snow is reported from ail. Kansas "towns. Sa lina hads the list wits a foot of snow reported. Five inches of snow fell at Abilene. Sleet and snow, are reported throughout central Kansas and in Osage county the- worst storm in 27 years is reported. It is expected that late trains will con tinue at -least through today and to morrow." While the -trains are not com pletely tied up they creep along at a rate of speed, .Which, while it would be startling 'to the man who Is accus tomed to riding behind, oxer., does not favorably impress the traveler of to day.: Both -Santa -Fe and Rock Island trains are running from four to six hours late and no- one-seems to know when conditions will Joe better.' .The rails are in such, a -condition that en gineers are afraid', to try" to -"let 'er out," and as a result schedules are a matter -of history- .t At 8 o'clock the thermometer had worked Its way up tor the 2 below mark and at 9 o'clock the mercury was only a degree below zero. This temperature was equal to the previous: low temper ature of the "year.. At 10 o'ejock the mercury was 3ust above the zero mark. The snowfall amount to 4 inches and the moisture contained in the snow was equal to .85 inches of. rain. Another Gas Shortage. At 9 o'clock today the gas pressure began going' down- and it was an nounced at the local gas office that ad ditional trouble with the- gas shortage was expected this morning. The trouble would come, it was stated, before noon ana continue until alter the supper hour tonight. The extreme cold weather is to blame, according to'the eras man. The statement, given Out at the gas office is to the -effect that. it having been found impcssible to supply enough fas in epia weatner with six pumps at cipio working it ts not-exDected that five pumps will supply as enough for the coldest weather of the year. It is declared there 'is no' hope -of relief un til tonight, when people quit burning it in such large quantities. ...-It was ad mitted thet the situation' was "bad' and that there was apparently no help ior it. Grows Warmer Slowly. At 2 o'clock- today the temperature naa risen to ten degrees above and the wind blowing' 12 -miles an hour from the northwest. It is likely that the mercury will sink tonight close to tne zero point, but tomorrow It is be lieved the weather will be warm enough to permit some of the snow to melt. The forecast is for. slowly ris ing temperature and clear weather. Following are the hourly tempera tures today:- 7 o'clock 3 11 -o'clock ,212 o'clock II I; o'clock ,'iS 2 o'clock 4 8 o'clock 9 o'clock 10 o'clock

.10 ..10 Below zero. HE IS MADE CHIEF. Faithful Cop Had Not Missed RoU CaU v .in 18 xearsv" South Bend.-Ind. Jan.- Guy Bunk er., a patrolman on .Was South. Bend po lice force for 18 -years,' during Which time he had never missed a roll call. was appointed: chief of police to suc ceed James A. McWeeny,, who has fill ed the office for nearly ten years. The appointment of Bunker- is re garded as a reward for faithfulness. Jost-ph Chappel, formerly a sergeant or. the Chicago police department, was made assistant chief and -Alexander Bodkins captain. The two latter have been sergeants on the department for several years. KICE WAY TO TREAT A LADY. ACCEPTRULING. Four Boys Ostracized From High School Give Up. One of Them Enters the State University. WOMEN INDIGNANT. Harshness of Board of Educa tion Excites Comment. No Further Expulsion tof Mem bers Is Reported. The parents of the four high school students who have been expelled by action of that august tribunal known as the city board of education are show ing no disposition to carry the matter any' further 'One boy entered the state university today. The others will pro bably drift away from school work and their educational career has probably come to an end. Pleas, entreaties and apologies count for nothing so far as these four boys are concerned but what of the other high school students who are members of "frats and sor rorities." s "The matter of high school fraterni ties hasn't been, winked at, as I have been investigating all the fall was the statement of Principal Stout this morning. "We are continuing our in vestigations. We .are getting letters from the parents of every pupil con nected with organizations before the law went .into effect, who now claim that their sons and daughters are not affiliated in any way with such organi zations. There may be a few I won't get. "One statement is due Frank McKit rick that is that on his pledge card he did not state that he was not a mem ber of a fraternity. He did not lie about it. He enrolled late and in some way the card was overlooked." The parents of the four boys. Lloyd Sawers,, Frank McKitrick. Chester Hamilton, and La Rue Boyce, have been notified that the board of educa tion took action suspending their sons from school until next fall, and Sup erintendent L. D. Whittemore and Principal Stout are continuing the in vestigation in regard to the member ship in "frats." There has hardly been time for the Suspended boys and their parents to make plans for the next few months, 'but John Q. Royce took his son. La Rue, to Lawrence today to 'place him under a private tutor until the begin ning of the second term at the state uhiversity. when he will enter that in stitution. He was a senior at the high scthool. Mrs. W. H. Hamilton, wliose eon- was "5nie of the "frat" boys found 'guilty of disregarding the state law and the rul ing of the board, had this to: say: "I can't think any other way but that the action of the board was unfair, but I don't know what we can do-about it. Chester is not 16. and he is supposed to go to school, isn't he? If he has beeh breaking one law the board is hreakinsr another." A number of the-prominent women of the city were interviewed by a State Journal reporter this morning and while the general opinion seemed to be that the high school "frat" is not a de sirable institution and that the law should be upheld, it was a prevalent opinion that it "was not just to single out four boys and administer punish ment so severe, while the majority of fraternity and sorority members es cape punishment. "I think that it was very unfair." was the statement of Mrs. F. W. Watson, former president of the city federation. "I don't see why four boys should have been picked out from the many, and it seems to me as though there is some grudge against them. I think that they should obey tne laws. I don't believe in .getting out just two or three boys it wouldn't be very hard for the principal and superintend ent to find nut others. T think that some light punishment should have been given to all. It is now a question of the law and the law should be obeyed. It is as much the fault or me parents as any thine elke." ine!ngT?oTsfve wnittemore is right and the Doara the means of cheating- the boys out otl T?UTf. Wttn" 1 thinlr that cvprunnf is onnnsert to the fraternities and sororities and would like to see them abolished." said another prominent Topeka woman wno ,L" r 'J....- brought about by other means. jiumcu t-iia.1- 11. cuuiu uavc uccn 1 hoped that action would be post- poned until a more thorough investiga-1 tion could be made. Of course the idea was to make the punishment sufficient ly severe to make an impression.". Be Good Sports, Says Sirs. Monroe. be Rood snorts and abide hv the law." A UCIICVC IUU.L tile l! 1 Hi LLJ 1 1 1 IN LM said Mrs. Lee Monroe, who looked upon

tne affair from a different viewpoint "I think that the school board did per fectly right. I believe that the sororities S??b5 prodiscipVnT thal age persons to keep their boys In school. One woman said the other dav. 'Here I am walking down town, and mv son is hiring a cab to take a girl to a party. "Then the fraternities are not demo cratic. We have always boasted of democracy in our schools. It is other wise and It isn't good. It shuts ou more good than it puts in. A man who makes a success in life is what you call a -mixer the fraternity creates snob bishness. ?,,h,i,5d Jaw they should all be suspended. xnc iK-uucii- tiary is full of men who started by DreaKing tne law in little ways. I be lieve in punishment, you know. I be lieve in people being good sports. If we don't uphold the officers we have chosen we are going to have trouble. I think that the school board has done a wise thing." Mrs. C. F. Menningerr "I do not think that the four punished should be the only ones punished, but they all ought to be dealt In a like manner. They should be punished to the limit. every one of them. They signed the pledge and they knew that they were breaking the law There has been nothing to prove that the Kappa Alpha Pi fraternity doesn't now exist, although the few who admit' they are Kappa alumni members say that the active organiza tion nas Deen oisbanded. This f. ternity is supposed to have originated iiuiii mu ceia sigma, a local society, of which but little was heard. The Kappa Alpha Pi charter, it is stated, was granted last summer. The Owls, a girls' high school soror ity, say that their charter was eiven up long ago and was burned, and that iney are now purely a local society. ine rour Doys wno are-by the de cree of the board of education ban- lsnea trom school wrote letters of apology for their action, withdrew from the fraternity and did everv- thing in their power to make amends for their violation of the rules of the school. Still, they were treated with the most extreme harshness nossihle. The action of the board of education might well have been tempered with mercy. Meanwhile there are a hundred high school students, members of fraterni ties and sororities,, who go their way without interference. There is more tnan one kind of justice apparently. TO HANG ON SATURDAY. Court Declines to Desecrate the Cus- tomary Execution Day. Kansas City. Mo.. Jan. 5. "I do not care to desecrate the day by ordering tnese two brutes hanged on the legal hanging day." With this unusual de claration from the bench. Judge Ralph S. Latshaw in the criminal court to day sentenced George Reynolds and John WHiiams. negroes, found sruilty last night of assaulting Mrs. W. F. Jackson, to be hanged on Saturday. February- 6. "They do not even deserve to be classed with the murderer, who must pay tne penalty ror his crime with his life," continued Judge Latshaw. "It would be an insult to these men who had at least a spark of manhood in their hardened souls to have such brutes as these put in their class.' I do not care to desecrate the day by ordering these two brutes hanged on the legal hanging day. The convicted negroes maintained a stolid indifference throughout. Thev slept last night, ate breakfast this morrring with relish and received their sentence unmoved. The two negro law yers who defended the negroes refused to prepare an appeal for them and Judge Latshaw sentenced them to be hanged at the earnest date allowed by law. APPEAL IS DISMISSED. In the Railroad Rate soorl. Case in Mis- St. Louis, Mo.. Jan. 5. The appeal ?Lthe i"iunetl.0n of Federal Judge their denunciation of a policy which Mcpherson restraining Governor Had- s ht to punish a man for indepen ley. Circuit Attorney Jones and Circuit a .K.,,t t,h oetinn an thev Judge Williams from Interfering in the .r iTT. V o. the United States circuit court of peais tooay. jmo reason was given forter castigation to them for supporting the dismissal by the state's attorney. I th. verv principles and policies for To Eliminate Level Crossings. Ottawa. Ont.. Jan. 5. Elimination level crossings in Canada is a policy to expressed a view of the matter to which the railway commission com- which several of his associates sub mitted Itself yesterday. All highways .rrihed He said: must pass either above or below rail ways in future throughout the do minion. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 5 Forecast for Kan sas: Fair tonight and Thursday; lowly rising temperature. THEY MUST FIGHT Insurgent Republican Members of the' House Considering Plans for TVar in Their Own Defense. MEANS LIFE OR DEATH Hitchcock Has Not Yet Seen Fit

10 Ueny Patronage Is Being With- Held Tom L'OngreSSnien. Washington, Jan. 6.-It i, expected 6 "cyuuin.a.u uioiii- be" of the house will call a meeting at an early day io give earnest con- sideration to the situation arising from the announcement that the adminis- i irucion wouio. no longer countenance iugiiig .in congress ana wouia withhold patronage from the recalci- 1 trant members. Most of the radical insurgent lead ers on the house side feel that with the elections but a few months dis- I t t 18 a "Ie ana aeatn struggle i wirn Tn.m onn conseouently when forced into the fray have no hesita tion about carrying the war to any extent. The effort to defeat insurgent Je&hS!? fL hit hard and the congressmen so at tacked probably will make no choice of weapons in defending themselves. It was expected that some statement would be forthcoming today from the administration side as to its attitude regarding the insurgents. So far, Postmaster General Hitchcock has re mained silent under the statement em anating from Representative Miller of Minnesota to the effect that Mr. Hitch cock was holding up the appointments or postmasters recommended by insur- intimations that this course was being nursued with reference to a. number nf congressmen from Minnesota and Wis consin has so far brought no formal denial from, any administration au thority. Will Wait to Cool Off. Representative Hayes stated later that no meeting would be called by him before next week. "I think the boys had better have a chance to cool off," he said. "Some of them are pretty warm, you know." Mr. Hayes said when he read the published accounts today of what I Purported to be the administrations attitude toward the insurgents he did not believe it. He considered the preposition so suicidal -from the. ad-.-ministration -standpoint that it was incredible. Mr. Hayes denied 'the statement published today in which he was Quoted as saying that "he' could see President Taf t's finish- if he persisted in upholding Cannon. From a source close to the administration the de claration came that no hard and fast determination had been reached by tne president not to recognize the in- fiurgent3. in m?tters of Patronage. The subject is under consideration. Self protection is the key to the ad ministration's attitude toward the in surgents. Aside from mere" personal politics. the administration has conceived some legislative policies which it de- sires to see carried into effect. The president and his advisers realize op position may be expected to those policies by some members of his own party in congres and it is to protect them against What might be consid ered as -an attack from the rear" that the patronage of. at least some parts of the country is to' be subject ed to very close scrutiny.- Xot A Punishment. It is insisted this attitude was not suggested as a means of punishment of anybody for past opposition. xne pressure lor appointments is as great as usual and it is the idea of the Republican leaders that a few of these members await 'nly a favorable opportunity to attack the policies and perhaps tne personnel of the admin istration after having obtained the of fice in which they are especially In terested and upon which they de mand prompt action. It Is definitely understood it is not the purpose of the president to lend aid and comfort to those w-ho may use the strength 'he gives, them in a fight against his announced policies. Postmaster General Hitchcock, who generally Is regarded as the closest political adviser of the president, de-r clined to make any statement for publication regarding the question. He did not deny having a conversa tion with Representative Miller of Minnesota, one of the insurgents, in the course of which he intimated to him what the administration's posi tion was likely to be. He was quite sure that whatever determination might be reached by the president re specting federal patronage would af fect not merely the postoff ice depart ment, but all branches of the govern ment. MADISON SPEAKS OXTT. Kansas Congressman Voices Position of the Insurgents. Washington, Jan. 5. With amaze ment, in some cases bordering on an ger, the insurgent Republican mem bers of the house today read the pub lished reports that they were to be singled out by the administration for punishment for their "rebellious con duct" as members of the minority. or;,; .L" exDressed it. Not a few were loath to "'I believe that President inn wouio. ap lend hi aid to an effort to adminls- which Jlaime.d the party it3el of! Dnn.nt.tU' Madison, of Kansas. "We insurgents as we are called, are not against Taft or his policies. We are unanimously I believe in fa vor of every leading reform to which the president and the- Republican party is committed. For Instance. I (Continued oh Page Eight)

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAI WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1910. Shopping Made Easy Here in the Big January White Sale In the first place the goods themselves are inviting fresh, clean, de pendable Undermuslins, Waists, Linens, Sheets and Pillow Cases, Towels, Curtains, and the rest. And the assortments are so wide and varied that 'tis a pleasure to choose. In the second place the Prices are significant, being the lowest on the various grades represented. Quality high, prices low that always makes shopping easy, satisfying. In the third place, Shopping is easy here because the goods are so conveniently displayed. No crowding, plenty of room for all patrons to see, to examine, to compare at their leisure. The store improve ments of the past summer and fall, especially these on the Grand Ave-, nue Floor, are largely responsible for a greatly increased ease in White Sale shopping the many and broad aisles, the long counters, the neat displays, all contributing their share of comfort. In the fourth place, the Parlor Floor with its conveniences, the Tea Room, the United States Postal Sub-Station, the free Checking Booth, and other accommodations add a great deal to ease of Shopping. No Need to Worry or Hesitate One of the most important features to "Shopping Made Easy" is contained in our liberal trading methods continued in force by us for some two score years: When making a purchase Jiere remember this, that if when you get it home it is different from what you thought it was when buying and you are dissatisfied with it, why do not hesitate, but send it back at once in salable condition along with duplicate check and get your money again. Anything fairer than that? Kansas City I TV I Kansas City ONLY ONE MESSAGE. inesident Taft Again Changes His nans After a Conference. Washington. Jan. 5. After a confer rnoe with Senators Aldrich and Root find Attorney General Wickersham, President Taft decided to revert to his original plan of combining his views as to amendments to the interstate com merce and anti-trust laws in one mes sage, which he will send to congress Thursday noon. This decision on the part of President Taft is said to be final. The combined message will be about 8,000 words in length. The president had been urged by tome senators to treat the two sub 1ects in geparate papers and announce ment was made that this would be done. The time that the messages should go to congress has been sub jected to frequent changes owing to various consultations the president de fired to have. The conferences have been completed and so have the mes sages, which combined in the one docu ment were sent to the government printing office last night. At the conclusion of the conference between the president and Senators Aldrich and Root it was announced the president's proposed railroad legislation would be given the right of way in both house and senate. The further assur ance was given that the proposed change in the railroad laws will be w ritten in the statute books during the session. There will be some opposition to the rather drastic legislation which the president will recommend but it will be overcome, It is said, and the president will be supported In both branches of congress. Senators Root and Aldrich went to the White House to discuss various features of the legislative program for the present session as well as the spe cial message. The discussion as to the railroad legislation being given prece dence over all measures was the only definite conclusion reached at this time. As to the ship subsidy, the postal sav ings banks, the changes in the conser vation laws and the proposed federal incorporation act, neither senator would nay as to when they would be given consideration. The president will trans mit to congress on Friday the report of the attorne- general and all the papers Weigh the Prices of Flour O o o o o o a o a o By its superiority to other brands. Poor flour is dear at any price. The best flour like "WHITE LOAF" is cheap no matter what you pay for it. "WHITE LOAF" is not high priced. You can buy it al most as cheap as any other first class brand. In the end it is cheaper because it goes so much farther and gives so much better satis faction. Try it. TWO RAILWAY LABOR LEADERS WHO SEEK TO AVERT BIG STRIKE. ?s iWffMss Whether federal mediation, sought by the railway department of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, results in a settlement of the switchmen's strike on the Hill lines or not It is believed that a concerted demand will be made for' an increase of wages by 200,000 trainmen and other employees of the operating departments of the eastern lines within a few days. Henry B. Per ham of the American Federation of Labor asked for a conference with Pres ident Taft nd the interstate commerce commission with a view to ending the present strike. He and many other labor leaders say the American Rail way association Is acting concertedly to prevent wage increases. Unofficial requests have been made for Increases by the operating employees of several eastern lines and have received little encouragement; hence the talk of ex tending the strike. Frank T. Hawley, head of the switchmen's organization, believes the strike will spread. The increases demanded range from 5 to 40 per cent above the present wage scale. Concerted action to secure this in crease will be taken by the following organizations: The Brotherhood of Ball road Trainmen, Including switchmen; the Order of Railroad Conductors, the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and the grand lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. connected with the Glavis charges against Secretary Ballinger, these pa pers having been called for in a reso lution offered by Senator Flint of Cali fornia, and the special message on con servation will go in the latter part of next week. Vncle Sam Wants Book Farmers. Washington, Jan. 5. "Expert farmers wanted, salary $1,200 per an num." The Indian service is making this offer to agricultural students who are sufficiently equipped to train the braves on Indian reservations in rais ing farm products. The appointment will be restricted to graduates of agri cultural colleges. The successful ap plicants will be designated by Indian Commissioner Valentine to manage model demonstration farms on reser vations in raising farm products. The appointment will be restricted to graduates of agricultural colleges. The successful applicants will be des ignated by Indian Commissioner Val entine to manage model demonstra tion farms on reservation in arid and semi-arid regions of the west Cereal Plant Is Burned. Buffalo. Jan. 5.- Three men were killed and nine were seriously burned in an exclusion and fire which de stroyed the plant of the Buffalo Ce real company. The explosion occurred In the yellow corn mill. A large ele vator adjoining it was shatteied and fell throush the roof of the mill. Of the twelve men employed in the ele vator not one escaped injury. The loss is $75,000. MILK AT NINE CENTS. Will Enable the Trust to Multiply Dividends by Three. New York, Jan. 5. Milk at the in creased price of nine cents a quart will enable the large milk companies to pay dividends three times as high as the big ones of recent years. This is the assertion of counsel for the state in the milk investigation which was resumed here -today and it was ex pected that much of today's testimony would be on lines calculated to sus tain this contention. District Attorney Whitman of New York, who succeeded William T. Je rome on January 1, appeared in the proceedings today having volunteer ed his assistance to the state author- ities" Chlldron Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAST RIA C ry Children FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S d'ASTORIA" RAILROAD NEWS. Passenger Equipment on West ern Roads in Fine Condition. Fifty Per Cent of New Cars Are All Steel Construction. TOPEKA FORTUNATE. Rock Island, Santa Fe Union Pacific Lead. and Other Items of General Interest in Railroad Circles. It the traveling public of the west have any doubts as to the intentions of the great western railroad systems in providing for their comfort and their safety they will place in mind the fact that of all the passenger equipment or dered for the last year, 1909, 50 per cent of the passenger cars were of all steel construction, 27 per cent called for steel underframes and only 23 per cent of the equipment ordered had the com plete wooden features. The passenger equipment ordered by the western railroads this year espe cially with the Rock Island, the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific, roads doing a big business through Topeka has far exceeded the orders of past years, it points out distinctively that in spite of the nonpayable returns of the passen ger work the railroads are making every possible move to protect ar.d ac commodate its passenger service. The all-siel passenger car is really a new feature in the railroad world but It has been taken up' with great en thusiasm and expense by the railroad companies it has made such a radical increase that 50 per cent of the entire equipment called for the all-steel cars. The railroads are placing themselves to a great expense In buying such equipment. An all-steel or steel under frame car looks at first sight like a dis tinct loss to the railroad company. They are heavy, weighing as much as a Pullman, and they have greatly in creased the weight and the tonnage of the passenger trains on all ths bisr lines. With all of this additiaaal we'.s:ht and expense the railroad companies have been obliged to purchase bigger loco motives and better motive power. However, it will be noticed that the popularity of the all-steel passenger car has become so general that all of the standard railroad systems are adopt ing them in their service. Through To peka, for example, the Rock Island has recently established on' practically all of its trains the new all-steel super structure and wood inside finish equip ment. The Union Pacific has made a general use of the steel and the Santa Fe is pulling long trains of solid steel underframes through this city. It is lor the safety of the traveling public and the protection of the com panies that this steel car movement has been taken up with such favor. An all steel car has all the advantages over the old wooden shells. In a collision it does not "buck up," break into pieces and mingle the bodies of the passen gers. Afterwards -there is no chance for a flre and additional death lists from this source. In a "leave the rail" wreck the cars are bound together so! soiiaiy tnat tney are practically known as non-wreckable. The cars have been known to roll down bigh embankments and finally settle with uninjured pas sengers climbing out of every window. l nere is only one thing that the rail roads have to contend with on these new steel cars and that is the weight. mo construct tnem in such a manner that they will not pull like a train of Pnllmans is the ambition of the build ers. The steel car. however, has every advantage from a noninflammable and immunity from consequence of wreck standpoint. The standard practice of the country Is now based On the steel construction both in the passenger and freight equipment. f The railroads are also navine more attention to the comfort of the passen gers in tneir service. The Improved heating systems. The ventilation ideas which are used on the western i-nnrio It. both winter and summer and the in terior decorations and comforts are all combining to make travel a delight in stead of a duty. IJTT7.K BUILDING IN WEST. Railroads in East Far Ahead in Con struction Work Last Year. The states west of the Mississippi river built 2,467 miles of railroads in 1909, as compared with 2,455 miles in 1908, an increase less than one-half of 1 per cent, says Railroad Age and Ga Eette. East of the Mississippi, how ever, 1,281 miles were laid this year, an increase of 520 miles, or 68 per cent. In the report from forty-three states and territories, including Alaska, where forty-eight miles of track were laid, Texas, which was sixth last year, leads the list, with 666 miles, closely comparable with 1906, when 635 miles were laid. In 1908 only 166 miles of road were built in Texas, by eight companies, while this year twenty three companies reported new mileage. Nevada, which built eighty-one miles last year, is second this year with 303 miles, and California is third, with 247 miles, most of which was added by the Western Pacific. No other state re ported over 200 miles. Washington, Georgia. Oklahoma, Oregon, West Vir ginia, Montana, North Carolina. Ken tucky, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Florida, in descending order, also built over 100 miles of main line in 1909. The largest decrease reported is in Montana, -where only 118 miles were built, as compared with 537 miles in 1908. USING GOOD EQUIPMENT. New Kansas Road Purdhases Fine Passenger Cars. Garden Cityr Kan., Jan. 5. The new passenger equipment of the Gar den City, Gulf Northern railroad was manufactured by the Hicks Lo comotive Car works of Chicago and embody the highest art of car con struction. There is nothing cheap or second class about them. The outside is built of cherry and the interior is finished in golden oak. The effect is heightened by delicate olive roof. The shade which the cars are painted is a dark yellow. Although some roads use the black colored coaches exclusively. many roads especially in the east favor the former shade. As it is the new cars of the railroad here harmonize perfectly and are neat and attractive throughout. One of them is a combination coach and baggage car. The baggage part, however, is so arranged that it may be employed as a smoking room in the event of a light baggage haul. The other coach has on the rear an ob servation platform, which is ample for the accommodation of 12 or 15 pas sengers. This is very handsomely decorated and adds much to the ap- HER WEIGHT INCREASED FROM 100 TO 140 POUNDS. Wonderful Praise Accorded Perunathe Household Remedy Mrs. Maria Goertz, Orienta, Okla homa, writes "My husband, children and myself have used your medicines, and we al ways keep them in the house in case of necessity. -I- was restored to health b' this medicine, and Dr. Hartman's in valuable advice and books. People ask about me from different places, and are surprised that 1 can. do all of my house work alone, and that I was cured by the doctor of chronic catarrh. My husband was cured of asthma, my daughter of earache and catarrh of the stomach, and f my son of catarrh of the throat. When 1 I was sick I weighed 100 pounds now I weigh 140. "I have regained my health again, and I cannot thank you enough for your advice. May God give you a long lif and bless your work." pearance and attractiveness of the car. Conspicuously painted on the sides of both cars are the letters "The Garden City. Gulf Northern Rail road." PASSENGER TRAEV STALLED. Passengers Burn Ties and Eat Supplies From Dining Car. Salt Lake, Jan. 5. A passenger train, according to a message received at the Salt Lake route office, is stalled between two washouts 100 miles from Caliente, Nevada. There are more than a hundred passengers on board. They have burned all the coal In the tender and are now buring ties to es cape freezing. Food has been obtain ed from the diner. Arrangements are being made to re move the passengers by wagon. FIRST IaFOECEPTION. Refreshments Are Served and 1,500 Guests Invited. Washington, Jan. 5. The first and probably the most brilliant of the for mal state receptions planned for the present White House season was given last night by the president and Mrs. Taft in honor of the diplomatic corps. Some 1,500 guests were invited. Mrs. Taft was present throughout the ev ening. The reception marked quite a radical change in the manner of con ducting the great state affairs at the White House and for the first time in many administrations refreshments were served. The "blue room circle," which flourished during the Roosevelt administration when a selected coterio of social friends were invited "behind the line," was entirely done away with. The number of Invitations issued to each of the big receptions has been materially reduced by Mra. Taft, whose idea is said to be that every guest present should feel himself or herseif the personal guest of the president and his wife and all should be treated alike. In the receiving line were only the vice president and Mrs. Sherman, the members of the cabinet and the ladles of their .households. :The: guests i assembled in the east room. The diplomats, in resplendent uniforms: and accompanied by their suites, gave .to the reception the color and brilliancy of a court function. The refreshments, served in the state din ing room, consisted of creamed oys ters, salads, ices and champagne punch. POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Advocated as Means of Keeping Money of Immigrants Here. Washington, Jan. 5. Postal sav ings banks as the cure for the for warding of $75,000,000 yearly to Eu ropean countries by foreign workmen employed in the United States is the opinion advanced by Auditor Chance of the postoffice department in his an nual report. Auditor Chance believes the great outflow of wealth is due largely to the immigrants' lack of con fidence in the safety and security of private American financial institu tions. The stupendous total of $640,640, 817, representing the surplus earnings of foreign laborers employed in the gigantic industrial and commercial In dustries of the United States, has been sent abroad since 1890." A total of $76,62 2,629 was sent abroad by for eign workmen in 1909. The millions sent out of this country have steadily increased each year In proportion to the influx of foreign immigrants. Most of the amounts sent abroad last year found lodgement in Austria, Great Britain, Hungary, Norway, Italy and Russia. Postal officials de clare in transferring their money to foreign countries foreigners prefer money orders to drafts on banks. Dr. Cook Is Dropped. New York. Jan. B. The council of the institute of arts -and sciences has voted to drop Dr. Frederick A. Cook from membership. The action was unanimous. This Is the first .time in the history of the institute that such action has been taken. Horses In Stocking Feet, rice straw, bundle sof which are at tached to the saddle, to be removed when necesary. The Iceland peasant shoes his pony with sheep's horn. In the upper Oxus valley horseshoes made of the antlers of the mountain deer, fastened with horn pins, are employ ed. Horses in. the Soudan go in their stocking feet their socks are of cam el skin. Newark News. OW COLLAR. -with the Ara -Notch in place of the bothersome buttonhole 15c. each 2 for 25c '"''."Chiett. P embody Sc Go, Maker ARROW CUFFS, 25c a Pair imm i .iiipm nun mttjumtmnm u miumo ARR new wr LD WAY "For a while" every 48-potmd sack of "H. H." Flour sold in Topeka will contain One Coupon. Two coupons, or this ad and one coupon will get one So E-Z Dust Pan Free. Ask Your Grocer About It Is in a class by itself The Topeka Milling Company TOPEKA, KANSAS The Printing Point Good typewritten letters convey an impression of good business methods, and the machine is often responsible for the appearance. The UNDERWOOD types always reach the proper printing point. The type bar operates through or with a guide a feature pecu liar to the Underwood. The type must go right. There's no other way. It cannot wobble. Good looking work is assured and the Underwood features prevent operator's blunders. The simple mechanism which secures perfect work m the Underwood is a mighty interesting exhibit of ingenuity and skill. Why not come look at it? Knowledge of the Underwood will help you to secure greater efficiency. It will be a pleasure to help you to just as much knowledge of the Underwood Standard Typewriter as you choose to acquire. "The Machine You Will Eventually Buy" UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER CO, Inc. 107 W. Seventh Street MONEY SAVED by having your teeth attended by us. Always up-to-date, pain less, reliable and the largest dental oonoera in Kansas. Popular Prices. DBS. LTON Office Established

it Ml Kan Atbl, Topeka, YOU CAN GET 3 AT THE STATE SAVINGS BANK Southwest Corner Sixth and Kansas Avenue apd get. your money on demand in case of need. KtAL ti l Al t AND A tf OCA AAA Deposits secured by the bank's asseta ASSCtS pl-ODU,UUU guaranteed by the Bank Depositors' ran ty Fund of the State of Kansas. L Trains to KANSAS CITY Z Laav laseka 12:80 A.M. 4:80 A.M. 7:85 A.M. 8:05 P3I. 8:25 P.M. 4:05 P.M. 7:20 P.M. 7:55 P.M. Retaralng L. Kanaat City T:65A3I. 9:45 A.M. 10:40 A.M. 11:20 AM. 2:00 P.M. :10 P.M. 10:00 P.M. 10:10 P.M. ue the $8.00 Per Month $1000.00 InEight Years $7.15 Per Month $500.00 In Five Years Begin with January 1910 The Capitol Building and Loan Aas'n. 534 Kansas Avenue Everybody Reads Save the Coupons USE A So E-Z Dust Pan AND SAVE YOUR BACK BUT every sack guaranteed. porcelain an rormam grown HEATHERLIT year, tad. Phnn nn Ow W. A. L. Hmmueun nak COLLATERAL LOANS Deposits secured by the bank's assets and Gua Fast Tim. Slaps. DssMa Track. Rock Island NeztTIme Never Too Busy to Answer Questions. Phone 384 H. H. HUNT City Pass. Agent 2 SHELLABARGER SON UNDERTAKERS Parlors 221 W. Fifth SL Phone 373 the State Journal

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1910. Win STATE JODRHAL By FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. (Entered July 1, 1S75, as second-class matter at the postofflce at Topeka, Kan., gndar the act of congress. yOLtTME XXXVII No. 4 Official state Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 eenta a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan Ms town where the paper has a carrier system. By man. one year............. tS.m By mall, three months Saturday edition of dally, one year.... 1.00 BELX. TELEPHONES. Btmlnwa Office JJJ Keporters Room 877 INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 107 and ask The State Journal operator for per "ti or department desired. PERMANENT HOME. Tonefca State Journal bulldlnr. SflO and 02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. New York Office: 290 Fifth avenue. Pai'U B'ock. manacer. Chicago Office: Hartford building. Paul Block, manager. FULL LEASED WIFE T5TTPOHT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that (Treat news or-s-aniratlon for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received In The 8tate Jour nal building over wlrea for this sole purpose. Et tu, Scipio! Presumably, the wheat crop has been "saved" again. This recent snow was also beautiful while it was falling. Apparently, the Kansas winter of 1909-1910 ha found that long road with out a turn. This is just a little bit too much. (Pedestrian Weston is going to walk across the continent again. The best cow in England, which has Just been brought to this country, is finally In her proper sphere. It occurs to the Chicago Tribune that "when a Kansas farmer sells his hogs at nearly 9 cents a pound he refrains from joining in the howl about the high cost of living." Possibly the bull elephant that Col onel Roosevelt recently brought to earth Is just as well pleased. He was compelled to lug around tusks that weighed 110 pounds. Dispatches from New York city state that cash is scarce in Wall street. This Is a chronic condition with any quan tity of people regardless of the wave of prosperity which is rolling on. Following the precedent set by President Taft in deciding that whisky Is whisky, the Chicago health author ities should have no difficulty In de termining that ice cream la ice cream. China Is real mean In refusing at this particular time to arbitrate her differ ences with Portugal on the question of the Macao boundary. King Manuel is distracted enough these days In look ing for a wife. According to a belief expressed by the Philadelphia Press "the Anglo-Saxon language will become the dominant speech of the world in the near future." The Chicago Record-Herald hopes that the Japs will not regard this as a slap at them. A few yells of "treason," "treason," are to be expected from William Jen nings Bryan. The Democrats of Mis souri are planning a dinner of a two dollar a plate variety. Such action smacks of plutocracy In the eyes of the proletariat. The value of the mineral output of 'Alaska for the past year is estimated at 20.200,000, most of it in gold. But that figure looks like the proverbial "thirty cents" when compared with the value of the products of the Kansas farms for the past year $307,638,164.91. The Chicago Federation of Labor has good reason to believe that some break fast food concerns use cast-off peanut shells as a basis for their product That wouldn't be very surprising. And then, what's the use of wasting peanut shells if they can be made to serve any purpose? Still, breakfast foods made from peanut shells ought to be labelled as such. Mrs. Russell Sage has Just given Tale university $650,000 in cash for the purpose of adding to its real estate possessions. Mrs. E. H. Harri man has offered to deed to the state f New York a tract of 10,000 acres In the Catskllls for the purpose of a public park. Apparently the richest women of the United States are of the right sort. While Colonel Roosevelt, according to report, is being paid by Scrlbner's an almost unheard of sum of money per word for his story of the African hunt, it must be admitted that he gives pretty good measure occasionally. In the last installment of his tale he tosses In the word "permanganatlng" In such an easy fashion that he evi dently did it without the batting of an eye. That's a good idea of the Provident association to lease vacant lots In and about the c,tT 'or tne cultivation of vegetables during their seasons. Not only will this provide work for those who need it but much valuable produce can be raised which win be most ac ceptable to the poor of the city. Con siderable of the crop might also be sold and the money devoted to other neces sities In the charitable work of the as sociation. No criticism is to be found concern ing the personality of Mr. Bacon who has been appointed to succeed Alfred C. Hale as poor commissioner for the county when his term expires, but the action of a majority of the county com missioner in turning an old and faith- ful employe out of office a man who la yet competent In every way to dis charge the duties of this particular of fice in a most efficient fashion is not one that will be popular with the tax payers and voters of this community. SUICIDES AND POISON. A young girl, despondent over a love affair that had gone awry, ended her life here the other day by taking a large dose of chloroform which she had purchased for that purpose at a drug store without any especial difficulty indeed, merely by asking for it," assign ing a false reason for which she want ed it, and paying the price demanded. Not a few suicides have occurred in this locality of late and several of them have been accomplished through pois ons which have been readily bought at drug stores. The same conditions are true of many similar Incidents in various sections of the state. Now, perhaps, a number of those who have kilted themselves in this man ner would be in the land of the living today if they had not been able to se cure the poisons for their rash acts. It is a plausible surmise that many persons who take their own lives would hesitate some little time about com mitting the terrible act if they had to use a harsher method than poison. It takes more courage than the average suicide is equipped with to pull a re volver and bang away at one's own head; to jump in front of a railroad train with the knowledge that the body will be mangled In a horrible fashion or to end it all in a. variety of other ways. But with poison at hand well, the Job is a comparatively easy one. It any suffering ensues it Is of short duration. And if poison were not at hand many of those who contemplate suicide with it would, have their thoughts turned in other directions, as happens frequently. The would-be sui cides who hesitate and live are many. The thing to do. therefore, is to keep poisons of life-taking power away from all people. It can be done by a state law which will prohibit druggists from selling any acute and life-destroying poison to persons unless they can pro duce an order from physicians demand ing it. Some states have such laws. New York Is one of them. There Is no good ren.se n why all states should not have them and Kansas in particular If she is solicitous of her reputation as a state which is progressive in all things. There are state rules and reg ulations at the present; time concern ing the sale of poisons by druggists, but they are merely of the formal sort and act In no way as a deterrent to the purchase of poisons by persons who want them for Improper purposes. Things should be decidedly different, though, in this particular. CRIMINALS UNDULY PROTECTED. "Criminal Procedure in the United States" Is the title of an important article by Professor James W. Garner in the January number of the North American Review. Professor Garner concludes "Everywhere state and local bar as sociations are discussing proposed re forms and are appointing committees to investigate and report. The law journals and magazines are likewise turning their attention to the subject, and the state legislatures here and there are considering practice acts, the purpose of which is to provide a more simple, Inexpensive, certain and ex peditious procedure. We have reached a point when the lawyers and courts should take a different view of the fundamental purpose of a judicial trial, should manifest less disposition to sub ordinate substantive justice to matters of technic' procedure and should pro ceed more on the theory that the pri mary purpose of a system of criminal Justice Is to protect the innocent mem bers of society rather than the criminal class. Our present system which re solves all the presumptions of the law In favor of the criminal and none in favor of the outraged community had its origin in an age when there were over one hundred capital offenses in the criminal code, when the accused was denied the right of counsel and all the other safeguards now thrown around him, when a Jury was liable to be fined for contempt for returning a verdict against the crown, and when offenders were cruelly punished for insignificant offenses. The old severity of the penal code has long since passed away, yet the ancient procedure with all its loop holes of escape and all the safeguards and presumptions in favor of the crim inal is, to a large extent, still retained It is largely inapplicable to present con ditions, and in the Interest of justice, as well as social order and security, it ought to be modified, as it has been in England, where it originated." A CENTRAL BANK. Arguments are being indulged in these days over the entire country on the proposition for the estab lishment through federal legislation of a central bank. There Is good reason to believe that this will Te the basic principle of the suggestions that will be made by the monetary com mission for the much needed revision of the banking and currency laws of the nation. And It Is possible that a considerable number of the laity have not an exactly clear conception of Just what such an institution would be and what would be Us func tions. An excellent exposition of it is found in a small brochure on the sub ject which has just been published by Julian T. Fairchild, president of the Kings County Trust company of Brooklyn, N. Y. He describes it as a financial institution that shall have the sole power of Issuing the mone tary circulation of the country so that the amount outstanding may be in creased or decreased, according to the natural laws of supply and de mand; that such an institution be not owned, but supervised by. the gov ernment, whereby its great powers may not be abused; and that the circulation issued be secured by bank ing assets gold, commercial paper and securities. Such a banking in stitution in most of its essential de tails is the famous Bank of England, although many people have an Idea that this Institution is exclusively con-i trolled by the British government and that private interests have no part in its management. As a matter of fact, though, the Bank pf England Is essentially a prlvarte institution in the control of which the English govern- ment has a Voice. As Mr. Fairchild forcibly points out, our currency is not now issued by one institution supervised by the govern ment, in the interest of the whole country. It is issued by 6,853 na tional banks great and small, scatter ed over forty-six states, and each hav ing the right to issue or withdraw circulation without the1 guidance or restraint of any central authority. It occurs to Mr. Fairchild that all of the commercial banks in the coun try, the state as well as the national banks, should be stockholders of the central bank. He thinks that If the state banks and trust companies as well as the national banks had the right to subscribe to the extent of, say 10 per cent of their paid in capi tal, the necessary capital for the central bank would be forthcoming. On this basis that capital would be $180,000,000. Nor would he permit any one bank to own in excess of 2 per cent of the capital stock of the central' bank. Unless the government is properly 'represented In the directorate in some form, the bank can never be estab lished, thinks Mr. Fairchild and he concludes the presentation of his ideas in the premises which are as suredly worthy of careful considera tion because they smack of so much sense and logic by stating that "while a central bank will not, of course, prevent over-speculation or commercial failures, It will remove the incentive for the hoarding of money and protect sound instituflons against currency famines." JOURNAL ENTRIES Man's will Is a weak thing when a woman gets busy with it. Knowing what one wants and know ing how to get it are decidedly differ ent propositions. Some dresses are probably referred to as poems because they leave a lot to the Imagination. Whenever a girl starts on a man-hunt she wants to fight shy of the fellow who is not "'ked by other men. -it-Many persons who trace back their genealogical trees find ancestors a-plenty of the undesirable sort. JAYHAWKER JOTS The Chanute Tribune reports it to be the consensus of opinion among the women of its town that a woman with a rat in her hair can be as re ligious as a man with a plug of to bacco in his pocket. The proposal of Manager Dick Hopkins to grow a forest on the re f ormatory grounds at Hutchinson strikes the Garden City Telegram as being all right, if the forest doesn't get so dense that the prisoners are lost from sight in it and get away. The Winfleld Free Press says there is no truth In the report that Fred Clark has decided to remain on his ranch near that town and let base ball slide. He has signed a contract with the Pittsburg Pirates and will be manager for them for at least two years more. As told by the Atchison Globe: Two men. being very hard up decided to rob the first man they met. The man turned out to be a big Swede and he fought like a tiger. He pounded his assailants in terrific fashion, but finally they overpowered him, tied him, and went through his pockets. He had five cents. "Wasn't it lucky," one of the robbers asked, "that he didn't have a dime? He would have killed us for a dime." The Winfield Courier is' trying to induce the suburban farmers of that town to raise celery for the market, claiming that the celery produced there is the best in the land, and that gardeners who raised it in quantities would find it highly profitable. There Is no doubt about the profits in celery culture; the most discouraging thing about the business is that it requires a lot of real work, of the back break ing variety. Atchison Champion. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Some people think they don't have to pay their debts until they are rich. When a woman goes out of town to broaden her mind, she comes back with a good deal to say about the Wonderful Ten-Cent store she visited. When a number of women are to gether, and a strange woman comes in, they are pretty apt to say: "She is an actress!" Every ten minutes an Idle woman reaches up both hands and pats her hair, and then for five minutes she Is Perfectly Satisfied. "No doubt you laugh at a good many of my statements, but occasionally I make one that should be taken seri ously." Parson Twine. We have admired a certain woman twenty-five years, except when she puts on her company manners. Then she acts foolish and unnatural. When a man tips his hat to a wom an his wife doesn't know, she asks him more questions in the next five min utes than a child will ask on a rail road train. When some men attend a banquet, they care only tor eating, drinking and smoking; they care nothing whatever for what is known as a feast of reason and a flow of soul. We are never very fond of a man who speaks highly of his opposition. For no perfectly candid or honest man likes the man who opposes him in business, politics or love. 1 In winter time a woman has to re arrange her day's program in such a way as to permit two hours a day to be spent in taking oft and putting on her children's rubbers, mufflers and mittens. A girl who goes away to school, re minds us a little of a congressman, when she returns for her vacations: she tries to act. natural, and treat her friends with the old cordiality, but she can't help showing that she has Been Away to School. An eastern magazine says Hon. Ly sander John Appleton, Kin Commis sioner General of the United States, was "made" by his wife. This will cause Atchison people who know Mrs. Appleton to say: "If Appleton was made by his wife, that settles it: he doesn't amount to much." RANSASJCOMMENT A DEBTLESS STATE. Pennsylvania, about which you hear so much in connection with corruption in politics, is one of the few states, if not the only state, free from debt. Hav ing attained this desirable condition, it is provided that the state shall never go in debt, except to supply -certain deficiencies i purpose never more than $1,000,000. Massachusetts, with half the popula tion of Pennsylvania, and regarded as a model in many matters of govern ment, has a debt of $66,000,000. In Europe one finds the Netherlands, with about the same population as Pennsyl vania, with a debt of $450,000,000. Bel gium has about the same population, and a debt of $660,000,000, on which it must pay interest of $35,000,000 a year. That Interest is something of a burden, as will be shown by the fact that Penn sylvania, the debtless state with all the extravagance which has been shown in connection with its govern ment, has annual revenues of but $30, 000,000, or less than Belgium must pay on the national debt. Still, there is no doubt that Pennsylvanians kick on taxes being too high, and, no doubt, they are. Atchison Globe. COMEDY AND TRAGEDY. Vfy together down the stream or lire do these two currents of comedy and tragedy run. The gifted author, beloved of all the nation, sends to his newspaper friends a Jocose message commenting in his characteristic way on the report that his death was at hand. And within i few hours after death really came; not to himself, but to his best beloved daughter. The world mourns with him in his affliction, coming in the winter of his life, as it does in the winter of the year, it mourns with him, as it has laughed with him for many years; laughed at his droll humor, his in cisive shafts of wit and reason, his plain, common sense. He is a great man, this shaggy, white-maned humorist; a man whose name will live long, .and whose liter ary works will ever be a source of pleasure and profit to the people. He has seen life; he has weathered some of the most terrible tempests of adver sity, and now, the last leaf upon the tree of a great generation of writers, his old age is saddened by a great be reavement. It is tragedy running close beside the comedy of life. Salina Journal. BABIES IN THE BLOCK. The babies In the block, or in other words, city babies in flats, are not to be exposed to the discomforts of hotel life, or be thrust out on the streets. That has been decided in a test case up in Chicago, where the constitution ality of a late law passed by the Illlonis legislature, forbidding the re jection of tenants because of the fact that they have children, has been up. The Judge decided that the law is con stitutional, and that the rejection of tenants by landlords, or their ejection, because of the fact that there are chil dren in the family, is contrary to pub lic policy. Of course this will not prevent many landlords from barring people who have children from the flats owned by them, because some other excuse could readily be conjured up, but in the case of people who are already occu pants of these flats, there can be no ejection because of. the fact that life is enlivened by these sunbeams. i The law is on the side of the babies. Leavenworth Times. I FUN OF WINTER. Some of the elders may not like the winter, may not feel that there is much joy in the cold, dead months. But the children do not hold any such grudge against the time of snow and lee. It is a brisk, lively time brisker and livelier than even the bright summer days. The invigorating air and even the biting wind send the blood dancing healthily and merrily. The girls and boys are glad to be alive, glad of the big, cold outdoors that Is theirs. If all cities would do as much as Cleveland has done to make the winter cheery there would be no child In America to mope beside the fire. The country children need no special care and thoughtfulness. Their playing ground is wide and free. The ponds and brooks offer the best of skating, the coasting places are many, bobsleds and sieigns may be had for the asking. But the city child cannot depend so wholly I on his own resourcefulness. He must have the skating places and coasting places prepared and cared for. Cleve i land, like a thoughtful parent or a big wyiuci, uuca mis wurtt iur lis nine ones, encourages them by special car nivals and contests, opens to them the vast good possibilities of winter fun. Cleveland Plain Dealer. PERIL OF PROVINCIALISM. A well known and careful writer on current problems has recently said that one of the greatest perils of the country today Is '"the peril of provin cialism," involving the superficial han dling of great subjects and great questions. Each age has its problems. The twentieth century will have possibly more and greater problems than any preceding century of history. The ages of the past have prepared man kind for its highest development in the century now nearing the close of its first decade. The problems now pressing upon thought and consideration are not only those' that affect the well being of the individual, Dut society in all its varied aspects and relations. Every sphere in which man moves and ev ery vocation to which he devotes himself affects and is affected by these problems. They are not superficial. The ills they seek to remedy are not surface eruptions on the body poli tic. They are deep seated. They are grounded in the very nature of man himself. Milwaukee Sentinel. A LIVE-SAVING LAW. -Striking evidence of the efficiency and importance of the safety appliance law enacted by congress is afforded in the annual report of the' interstate com merce commission, published this week. The figures tell the story more suc cinctly and at the same time more conclusively than could be done in any other way. In 190S, before there was any legal compulsion in the matter, one man out of every 349 engaged in coupling and uncoupling cars was killed; In 1908, un der the enforcement of the law. after many delays, only one man was killed cut of 983. In other words, the fatali ties from this cause were reduced to one-third of their former volume. In Injuries the rate was 1 man in 13 in 1903, and 1 in 62 in 1908. the casualties under the law being little more than one-fifth of those before it was enforc ed. This statistical showing of two out of three lives saved, and four out of five injuries avoided, is a striking vin dication of the wisdom of the law and the benefit of its enforcement. Pitts burg Post. FROM OTHER PENS THE WELL-BELOVED ENEMY. I know a chap who's used me ill Almost sine I was born.. He's put my name to many a bill And trouble most forlorn. In school he's cost me endless woe, Too many here to tell. And yet In spite of all, d'ye know, I love him mighty well. He had me spanked when I was ten For something that he did. As I look back upon him then tie was a. leariul Kia. 1 He said mean things about my dad, The little infidel. And yet there was no other lad I cared for quite as well. In college he on mischief bent On me put all the blame. No matter where that villain went, For me 'twas quite the same. He had the fun, I got the hook. In all things that befell, -And yet by some queer .mental crook I loved that fellow well. The girl I loved he went and wooed. And wed her, and today Is father of a lovely brood Of kiddies blithe and gay. His are the glances of her eye, His is the blissful spell. Yet spite of all I can't deny I love him Just as well. I know full well his weaknesses, The strange twists of his mind, And yet there's something in me says He's not a half-bad kind. And though he's been an enemy Beyond all parallel. The time has never ceased to be When I have loved him well. Ready tor the Summer Boarder. The dignified president of a well known and flourishing New England college, in his moments of relaxation, tells the following story at his own ex pense: One summer some years ago he spent a vacation of several weeks at a farm house in a Maine town. The next season he received a letter from his former boarding mistress Inquiring if he would like to return. In reply he stated that he would be very glad to pass another summer va cation with her, provided some needed changes were made about the place. "First," wrote the college president, "your maid Mary is persona non grata, being anything but neat and orderly in her ways, and if she is still with you I trust you will at least not allow her to wait on the talble. "Secondly, I would suggest that the sanitary conditions on your place would be greatly improved if the pigsty were moved back a few rods farther from the house or done away with altogether. "I will wait until I hear from you before deciding about coming." The somewhat peculiar college president was reassured by the receipt of the following reply: "Mary has went. We hain't had no hogs on the place since you was here last summer. Be sure and come." Judge's Library. Agreed With the Court. A lawyer came into court drunk, when the judge said to him: "Sir, I am sorry to see you in a sit uation which is a disgrace to yourself and family and the profession to which you belong." This reproof elicited the following colloquy: "Did your honor speak to me?" "I did, sir. I said, sir, that, in my opinion, you disgraced yourself and family, the court, and the profession by your course of conduct." "May 1 1 it please your honor, I have been an attorney In in in this c court for fifteen years, and permit me to say, your honoi, that this is the first correct opinion I ever knew you to give." Dundee Advertiser. A Hard Target to Hit. A member of the cabinet was ap proached the other day in Washington by a disappointed and disgrunted of ficeseeker, who said: "Mr. Secretary, where is all that new Republican prosperity that you were going to give us?" "Why," replied the secretary, a lit tle piqued, "it is everywhere. Labor is being employed: capital is becoming active, prosperity is striking out in "Well, it hasn't struck me yet," snapped the disgruntled one testily. "You see," replied the secretary, "it ia pretty hard to hit nothing." Judge. Rooster on Cowcatcher. When the 3:40 express arrived yes terday afternoon people noticed that little Robert Thompson, who was in the crowd, started on a run for the engine. In a minute or two he climbed on the front of the locomotive, and as people began to call the engineer to look out for the boy, Thompson jumped to the platform with a large Plymouth Rock rooster In his arms. It had been picked up somewhere on the route by the locomotive; its feet caught so that it was held, and Thompson secured it practically un injured. Lee correspondence of the Springfield Republican. The False Teeth Trade. Some idea of the general use of false teeth may be gathered from the state ment that twenty millions of them are exported from America to England every year. When we consider that probably not more than half the in habitants 3f Great Britain indulge in the luxury of false teeth, no matter how many grinders they may have lost, these ligures would seem to in dicate that nearly every one in Eng land suffers from defective or missing teeth. As far as observation goes, the United States is no better off than En gland In this respect. Tit-Bits. Repairs Free For Poor Scholars. It is proposed that the boots and clothes of necessitous children in at tendance at the London county coun cil's day and residential special schools shall be repaired free of cost to the parents, in connection with the boot making and tailoring classes conduct- I ed at such schools. It Is held that the work would afford useful and nec essary practice for pupils in these classes, and no expense beyond that already authorized would be incurred. London Evening Standard. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. It takes a wise man to sit still and run a farm. Even uppish women prefer lower berths in a sleeper. Don't act like the deuce because you feel like a king. It isn't always easy to find a friend after losing your Job. Riches have wings, but poverty hob bles around on crutches. Our faults are all our own and it isn't necessary to copyright them. There's much difference between an imaginary snake and the real thing. It's almost as easy for some men to keep a promise as it is for some women to keep a secret. A man who is serving a life sentence In an Ohio prison has written a book probably to demonstrate the. power of the pen. There are lots of happy married people, but they are seldom heard of because or tne noise made or tne un happy bunch. THE EVENING STORY A Fish Ont of Water. (By Bertha Orville.j Ned Morgan was in a quandary. His sister Edith and his best -friend, Tom Winters had been in that delight ful state of courtship that precedes an engagement when suddenly the sit uation changed and Tom's visits ceas ed. The big brother had at first con cluded that it was a lovers' quarrel and would, in time, right itself. But Edith's demeanor soon changed that theory. She seemed to be as happy and as Intently Interested in her thoughts as she was when first she met Tom. On the other hand Tom was in a state of deep despondency. One day he suddenly announced his intention of going West. "See here. Edith," said Ned. "what's wrong between you and Tom? He's going away and I'm inclined to think it's because you haven't treated him right." "I have. Ned. When I saw that I didn't care for him in the way that he wanted me to, I told him so frankly." "What occasioned your change of heart?" She blushed and turned away her eyes, "Who in the world is the man? The other man? There is one.Jsn't there, Edith?" "I I am not sure." she hesitated, her blue eyes softening in reminis cence, i "But no one comes to see you. You haven't received any attention since you turned Tom down.. This is a Jack and Jill town, you know, and there is no ona available that I know of." She was silent. "You won't tell me. Edith?" "No," she said decidedly, "not yet." Her brother wisely refrained from further questioning. He sought Tom. "So you are going West, Tom?" he asked. "Yes, a business trip that no one else in the firm wanted to take. But which was welcomed by me under the circumstances." "I know Edith. This is a passing whim of hers, and she will be all right again by the time you return." Tom shook his head despondently. "There is another man." "Well, it must be a man in a book, then, for no one comes to see her and she is at home alone every even ing," tha brother told him. At this Intelligence Tom brightened a little and went away with the spark of hope fanned to life again. Ned grew watchful of his sister. From the fact of her having no even ing entertainment he concluded that the other man must be employed at night and able only to pursue his woo ing by day. It was quite by accident that he gained knowledge of the af fair. He was taking a turn in his car in the country one morning, and passed a small lake resort. Feeling thirsty he ran the car into the grounds up to the pavilion. To his surprise he saw his sister's runabout in the driveway. "Where is the young lady who came out in the runabout?" he asked of the landlord. "If 'twas a young lady, ten to one she's out in the sailboat with Jack," was the reply with a significant smile. "Jack?" "Jack Berdan. He has charge of the boats here. He's a pretty fair looking chap and since I've had him here the boat trade has more than doubled. All the girls in the coun try and town have come to think there's nothing like sailing. There's one pretty girl who has been here ev ery morning regularly for ten days." On his way home Ned evolved a plan of action. In the afternoon he Invited a girl he knew to go to the summer resort for a sail. "Oh, then at last I may see Jack!" she exclaimed, laughing. "Jack?" "The picturesque new boatman. The girls all have been out to see him. They say he looks like Romeo. Mother wouldn't let me go out there alone." Ned had to admit that Jack was certainly of the type to appeal to the artistic and feminine eye. He was slender, supple and lithe and han dled the boat with ease and grace. He had dark, foreign looking eyes, strong features, brown skin, even white teeth and a musical voice. He wore corduroy trousers, blue flannel shirt with turn down collar and rolled up sleeves, red tie, a bit of a cap on the back of his head, with a Byronic raven lock on nis Drow. When they were in the sail boat Ned tried to draw him into conversation, but sailor like, his eyes and thoughts were centered on the boat and sky. "That is where the fascination lay," thought Ned. "If he only had shown his level by his speech, Edith would have been disillusioned. I guess she is only a worshiper from afair." "They must keep you pretty busy here," he observed as tiiey landed. "Have to work evenings, I suppose?" res, that's our Dusy time." replied Jack. "Once in a while I lay off for a morning. I am going to get up tomorrow and go to the ball game." "Be sure you do," urged Ned. "It's going to be the game of the season." He went home relieved. Jack had omitted all his "g"s" and had said "git" for "get." He went early to the game the next morning and secured a seat on the bleachers, watching the entrance faithfully. Presently Jack appeared "dressed up." His attire was Just what Ned had hoped it would be. At luncheon he remarked casually to his sister, "Bessie Lawrence and I went to Round Lake for a sail yester day." She blushed and darted a quick glance at him. "I hear -the girls are all wild over the new boatman. I don't wonder. He's about a handsome a chap as I ever saw outside of a picture." Edith looked relieved and pleased. "Isn't he beautiful?" she asked en thusiastically, "and can't he handle a boat well?" "Yes; he's a born sailor. So you have been sailing with him, Edith?" "Yes, a few times," she said, hesi tatingly. "Have you been with him anywhere else "Once or twice we rowed up the creek and "And where else, Edith?" he asked gently. "I took him in my automobile for a ride." "And do you think that was Just the thing to do? Why not ask him to come to your house, as you did Tom and the others?" "I thought," she said, reddening under his gaze, "that you would ob ject." "I would certainly prefer to have you see him here than to have you going where he is. I made his ac quaintance at the ball game this morning. I shall ask him to call, if you like." "I don't think I want him to call," she said nervously. "Why not?" he asked in feigned surprise, doubWulfy. knW JUSt Why'" Sh Said madw touirle about him and X rind that he la a respectable, indus trious fellow. I'll ask him to come up after dinner tonight I want to sea him anyway and figure en a sailboat party for next week." He telephoned to the resort and Jack promised to call at 8 o'clock that night. When he was admitted by the maid Edith and Ned were in the library. Edith looked at him and turned away from Ned's dancing eyes. Jack wore bright tan shoes, plaid socks, light trousers, a gaudy waist coat, a gorgeous tie, a watch chain TyL. multiplicity of dangling charms, a large pin in his tie and an organization emblem in his lapel. He seemed perfectly at ease, however; IT tV.xi" D HU man nia nostess. And he blithely ignored all the rules of En glish. After half an hour Ned con sidered from his sister's countenance that the lesson had been learned. Now, Berdan." he said, "let's flar ure on e-ptrlno- that- hi i a yo"IlUD thrush the chain of lakes." uu want, lo laiK Duslness, I may be excused," said Edith, has tily leaving the room. Presently the brother called to her. Our caller had to depart," he said gravely. "He had only two hours' iffvf By th way- Edith, he con fided to me that he had a girl a dan dy girl, he said." "Ned." nha iaM nn w in ui nu tation in her eyes, "he looks so dlf- enuuiQ BiSLy in one. But did you know that Tom re turned today? May I telephone and ask him to come up tonight?". lessly6 Wn pome'" Bh sa,d hpe- .telephone. After a moment's conversation, he handed her the receiver. "Tom wants to speak to you, Ed ith, he said, leaving the room. (Copyrighted, 1910, by Associated Lit erary Press.) I1VM0R OF THE DAY rJff?. cheaP crook who gets arrested Pw1!,8 -l1";68,,.10 n,ak! disclosures rS?,4,,,11 shake civilization to its base." fe2i. mIv6 been listening patiently for some time now, but I haven't heard anything yet.' 'Louisville Courier-Journal. "How do you get that emotional actress to shed tears at each performance?" "I don t mind telling you," answered the manager, "although I shouldn't like to have it generally known. Before her big w UiCOSlllg i Will f i tr w, 11 tle real money there "Have you desirable neighbors?" "Ex cellent. They never have tried to become acquainted." Buffalo Express. She The West Point boys are so hand some. He (sourly) Yes, uniformly good looking. Cornell Widow. Knicker Several thousand shirtwaist makers are on strike. Henpekt Do you suppose it would do any good for the shirtwaist buttoners to strike? New York Sun. "Your husband is a great home-lover, isnt he?" "Yes, especially on the evenings when we're invited out together." Detroit Free Press. "You have heard it said that there are only three original Jokes." "Yes." "Well, I have seen at least one of them a man arguing with a street car conductor over a transfer." Buffalo Express. VL wonder what the Inventions of the next ten yeara will be?" "Probably de vices to protect us from the Inventions of the last ten." Cleveland Plain Dealer. She I have just discovered that the dia monds In the diadem you gave me last year are false. He Why, then, they Just suit your golden hair. Meggendorfer Blaetter. "So Miss Hayo, the telephone operator, has broken her engagement with you?" "Yep. After she got my number she handed the presents back, put out her little., white, shapely hand" "Well?" "And said: 'Ring off.' "St. Paul Dis patch. Being upbraided by her mother for be ing the lowest in her class, little Mabel exclaimed in tones of injured innocence: "It ain't fnv fault. The fdrl who haa al- iways been foot left school." The Delin eator. Teacher Jimmie, correct this sentence: "Our teacher am in sight." Jimmy Our teacher am a sight. Tit-Bits. "I don't care to drink. Liquor always goes to my head at once." "Yes nature hates a vacuum." Cleveland Leader. '"What do you mean by the glad hand?" "Anything," answered Mr. Bloochips, "that will beat three of a kind." Wash ington Star. Bilious What becomes of love's young dream? Cynicua Well, it never dies of old age. Philadelphia Record. "Well, Rastus I'm glad you like your new employer. Remember, you cannot do too much for him." "No, sah, I don't mean to." St. Louis Times. Church If a man wants to have dis agreeable things said about him he should run for office. Gotham Or discover the North Pole. Yonkers Statesman. "Pa what's public opinion?" "It Is the greatest force we have in this country. except when it bumps against the United States Benate."-r-Chlcago Record-Herald. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. tFrom the Philadelphia Record. Laced makes waist. It is quite possible for a negative reply to be given in a positive man ner. A talkative woman is always popu lar with the men, because there isn't any other kind. The astronomer studies the stars, but the average man likes to watch the chorus girls. Some people can get used to pov erty more readily than to wealth. Tiey have more practice. Nell Mr. Checksult wears stun ning clothes. Belle Yes; I feel posi tively stunned every time I meet nun. Falling in love is the easiest thing' in the world, but it requires consider able ingenuity to engineer a falling, out. "Don't be a mollycoddle," admon ished the stern parent. "Talk like a man." "Yes: and then you'd give me a lickin for cussin'," whimpered the boy. Blobbs Black eyes denote a pug-; nacious disposition. Slobbs Oh, not always. Sometimes a fellow gets a black eye by bumping into a lamp post. REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR. IFrom the New York Press.J Temperament is a polite erm for cussedness. A widow's sweet disposition always lasts till the next husband. If it weren't for holidays and family visits life would be rather Jolly. A man worries about the money he has spent, a woman about the money she wants to spend. Musical talent in children is as com mon as the cr.tical judgment of their parents who think they have it

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