The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
June 7, 1910

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EVERYBODY EVERYBODY 12 PAGES NEEDS IT. 12 PAGES READS IT. last: edition. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 7, 1910. TUESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. I READS IT. THEY STORM CITY Kansas Business Men Are Flock ing to Topeka Today. r'Merchants' Week" Opens With a Dash Despite Kain. ARE ON EVERY TRAIN. Bound of Pleasure Arranged for Goods Dispensers. Expect Army of Visitors Here During Festivitees. 2:00 p. m. to 6:00 p. m. Registra tion of merchants at Commercial club. (Headquarters.) 6:30 p. m. Band concert at pa vilion )n front of headquarters. 8:15 p. m. "Great-Cafateria-Lunch, Vaudevllle-Concert-Smoker" at City Auditorium. (Admission by ticket only.) WEDNESDAY. JUNE 8. 8:00 a. m. Band concert by Mar shall's Military band at headquarters begins. 8:30 a, m. First "See'ng Topeka" cars leave Commercial club. Additional trains will leave every few minutes un til 9:30 o'clock. 11:00 a. m. Merchants' state meet ing: at representative hall, capitol building. Address by C. C. Lawson, secretary Missouri Retail Merchants' association. 12:00 noon Exhibition by Topeka fire department. (At Quincy and Sev enth streets.) 2:00 p. m. Merchant guests will be taken to the aviation. Free coupon tickets will be provided guests. 8:00 p. m. Theater party Grand opera house. North Brothers' Stock company in "Puddin' Head Wilson," a serlo-comedy. This is the program of events in connection with Merchants' week for today and tomorrow. Kansas merchants are defying the el ements and are arriving in large num bers to enjoy the Week of festivities which has been planned by the Topeka Jobbers and Manufacturers' association. When President George P. McEntire, of the local organization, arrived at the place of registration at 612 Kansas av enue at 7 o'clock this morning, he found a group of goods dispensers al ready on hand, although according to the announcement' made on the print ed programs regular registration was not to take place until 2 o'clock this afternoon. By noon upwards of 200 registrations had been recorded. Speaking of .the matter. President McEntire said: "Ev erything is coming off even better than we had anticipated. notwithstandSng the unfavorable weather conditions. We have never known such a heavy pre liminary registration." So far every train has been met by members of the entertainment commit tee, and the visStors brought immedi ately to the Commerce building to reg ister. Then as soon as thev have re ceived a badge together with a book let contains coupons which entitle the holder to take advantage of the vari ous amusements provided, and serves likewise as a program of events, the guests are taken up to the Commer cial club quarters where a check stand is maintained and a directory of room ing houses is available. The parlors of the Commercial club are open as a rest room to all visitors to the city. Is Busy Place. A busy place is the registration room at the Commercial club. Forty mem bers of the Jobbers and Manufactur ers' association occupy booths where they maintain offices and have on hand representatives to answer any questions which may be put to them by the visi tors. The frame work of the booths is decorated in blue bunting, and the walls above are plasitered with adver tising signs printed in bright colors. Registration is taking place in the rear of the room and as the merchants from all parts of the state pass down between rows of booths they can not help but get the impression that there are some enterprising jobbers and manufacturers in the capital city. A sign was placed above the regis tration booth this morning which pro vided many a smile until the mistake T.as corrected. It insinuated that no cne who is inclined to be bony need register, reading as follows: "We can Tiot register farmers, salesmen or any one but BONEFIDE Kansas mer chants." Sad to relate the decorations on the bandstand erected in front of the Com merce building for the band concerts to morrow present a decidedly damp ap pearance, as do the deorations on some of the stores. List of Attractions. Below are the attractions which the coupon books include: Band concert by the Knights end Ladies of Security band from 6 to 8:45 o'clock this even ing; use of the Topeka Commercial club rooms; street car tickets; "great f et erla-l uncheon-concert-smoker' 'this evening at the Auditorium at 8:45 o'clock; Marshall's band concert at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning in front of th rvirvmerclal club: a ride in uie see Ing Topeka trains;" a meeting of mer chants in Representative hall at 11 o'clock on Wednesday; a Are drill on Ouincy street at 1:15; admission to ruaoin ni-u- in the evening; a plunge and a swim at the Central T. M. C. A.; free long distance 'phone calls over both the Bell and Independent system; an admission to the motorcycle races at the fair grounds on Thursday morning; and an invitation to visit the various Jobbing houses and manufacturing concerns Tnursdav afternoon: and visitors wll also be "provided tickets to the avia tion meet. These Arc Hosts. Here are the hosts of the third an nual Merchants' week event: The Mid-Continent mills, H. B. How ard, Chesterfield hotel. Road Supply Metal company. National hotel. Capital City Bottling works. Crawford Amuse ment company, W. G. Agard, J. B. Bil lard, Throop hotel. Coco-cola Bottling works. International Harvester com pany of Topeka, W. O. Anderson (pro prietor of the A. A. Co.). B. Collins Brokerage company, Samuel E. Lux, Topeka Ice Cold Storage company. Central Paper company, Geo. Burkhart. Central National bar.k. Bank of, To peka, R. T. Kreipe Cigar company, Smith Automobile Company. Oscar Kraus Sons, Chicago Lumber com pany, Topeka Railway company, the German-American bank, Arnold Drug company. Hall Lithographing company, A. B. Whiting Paint Glass company, Topeka Packing company, McCord Kistler Mercantile company, Jensen Manufacturing company, Seymour Packing company, Continental Cream ery company, Adams Brothers' com pany, Missouri Kansas Telephone company, W. A. L. Thompson Hard ware company. Merchants' National bank, Byron Willcuts, Crane Co., Whiteker Brothers, Arthur Capper, Frank P. MacLennan; Charles Wolff Packing company, Roser Cheese com pany, McEntire Brothers, Kaw Milling company, William Schick Manufactur ing company, Topeka Independent Telephone company, Shawnee Milling company, Inter-Ocean mills. State Sav ings bank, Crosby Milling company, Topeka Woolen Mills company, Charles S. Eagle, Topeka Pure Milk company, Otto Kuehne Preserving company, E. Horn Planing Mill company, Davis Mercantile company. FOR PCpCTION President Taft Sends a Message to Congress Asking That the Bailroad Bill as Passed Be Amended. Washington. June 7. President Taft today sent a special message to con gress in which he recommended that the clause in the new railroad bill, rwbich gives the interstate commerce commission power to investigate and suspend increased rates filed by the railroads be modified so as to take ef fect immediately upon signing of the act. As It stands in the bill the provision would not take effect for 60 days. The president bases his request upon the agreement he readied with the rail roads on yesterday, whereby they agreed to withdraw all increased rates until the new law is signed. As to how the act is to be amended whether in conference or by jaint resolution, the president left that to the discretion of congress. Following is the president's mes sage: "A recent effort by a large number of railroad companies to increase rates for interstate transportation of persons and property caused me to direct the attorney general to bring a suit and secure from the United States court in Missouri, an injunction restraining the operation of such increased rates dur ing the pendency of the proceeding. "This action led to a conference with the representatives of the railroad com panies, so enjoined and the agreement by each of them to withdraw the pro posed increases of rates effective on or after June 1, and not to file any fur ther attempted increases until after the enactment into law of the pending bill to amend the interstate commerce act or the adjournment of the congress; witfh the further undertaking that on the enactment of such law each would submit to the determination of the in terstate commerce commission the ques tion of the reasonableness of all in creases that each might thereafter propose. "It is now hoped that all of the other railroad companies will take like ac tion. In order, however, that each may have the benefit of a speedy determi raition of the question whether or not its proposed increases in rates are jus tifiable, provision should be made by congress to vest the interstate com merce commission with jurisdiction over such questions as soon as possible. "In the senate amendment to sec tion 15 of the act to regulate com merce contained in H. R. 17.536. the Interstate commerce commission is empowered, immediately on the filing of a proposed increase In rates, of its own motion or on complaint, to enter on an investigation and determination of the Justice and reasonableness of such increases and in case it deems it expedient to suspend the operation thereof for a period specified in the section to enable it to complete such investigation. That bill, however, pro vides that the act shall take eflce and be in force only from and after the ex piration of 60 days after its passage. "This provision, if allowed to re main in the bill, would enable carriers, between the time of enactment of the bill and its taking effect, to file in creases in rates which would become effective at the expiration of 30 days and remain in effect and be collected from the public during the pendency of proceedings to review them, where as if the bill be made to take effect immediately such investigation will have to be made before the public is called on to pay the increased rate. "WILLIAM H. TAFT." "The White House, June 7, 1910." Follows a Conference. The message followed a lengthy conference at the White House thi3 morning between the president and Senator Crane on the part of the senate and Representative Mann on the part of the house. There was a wide divergence of opinion among the callers as to whether the amendments sought by the president can be se cured in conference. Those repre sentatives who favored the acceptance of the senate bill as a whole, contend ed that the only way to make the clause referred to by the president take effect immediately was to pass a Joint resolution to that effect. House Takes It Up. Washington. June 7. The railroad bill was taken up by the house soon after that body convened today. Chairman Mann., of the committee on interstate commerce moved to non concur in the senate amendments and ask for a conference, the motion re quiring unanimous consent. Repre sentatives Lenroot, of Wisconsin, one of the Republican insurgents objected. Following the reading of the sen ate's amendments. Representative Lenroot, of Wisconsin, made a motion that the house concur in the amend ments with an amendment to section 9, making its provisions operative up on approval of the bill by the presi dent. Two hours were alloted for de bate on the motion. Congratulate Ttft. Chicago. June 7. A telegram of congratulation was sent to President Taft today by a committee represent ing the western shippers. The com mittee also sent a telerrnm to George W. Perkins of J. P. Morzan Co. of New York. Mr. Perkins was asked if the tariffs and classifications affect'ns rates in the interested districts are to be with drawn and the status cuo created thereby maintained pending adjudi cation by the mterstatecommerce com mission. AN OMINOUS SIGN. Diminution of the Birth Rate Threatens the Nations. Declares Col. Roosevelt in a lecture at Oxford. TAKES FOR HIS THEME. The Biological Analogies of the World's History. "Nations That Seemingly Die May Be Born Again." Oxford, England, June 7. Former President Roosevelt was the guest of Oxford today. He delivered the Rom anes lecture at the University of Ox ford and the university conferred upon him the honorary degree of doc tor of civil laws. The lecture and the conferment con stituted the big feature of the day, but it did not complete the program, which was about as crowded as any that the distinguished American has undertaken in his European travels. Oxford was glad to see the former president and made the fact known. First there was a reception given by the mayor of the corporation at the town hall. The auditorium was filled and when the guests appeared the au dience Joined In singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." From the town hall Mr. Roosevelt made hurried visits to the leading colleges and to other places of historic interest. He was entertained at luncheon by the American club, leav ing soon afterward for the Sheldonian theater for his lecture and the cere monies that added a D. C. L. to the honorary titles that have been be stowed upon him. The Romanes lectureship at Ox ford was named for George John Romanes, who was born at Kingston, Canada, on May 20, 1848, and died at Oxford, in 18 94. He gained celebrity as a naturalist and Fullerian profes sor of physiology at the royal institu tion. The first incumbent of the chair, occupied this year by Mr. Roosevelt, was William E. Gladstone, who In 1892, lectured on "Medival Univer sities." Lord Curzon, chancellor of the uni versity and who delivered the Rom anes lecture in 1907, presided at the exercises today. Mr. Roosevelt's sub ject was "Biological Analogies In His tory." He said: The Lecture. An American who, in response to such an invitation as I have received. speaks In this university of ancient re nown cannot but feel with peculiar vividness the interest and charm of his surroundings, fraught as they are with a thousand associations. Your great universities, and all the memories that make them great, are living real ities in the minds of scores of thou sands of men who have never seen them and who dwell across the seas in other lands. Moreover, these associa tions are no stronger In the men of English stock than In those who are not. My people have been for eight generations in America; but in one thing I am like the Americans of to morrow rather than like many of the Americans of today, for I have in my veins the blood of men who came from many different European races. The ethnic make-up of our people is slowly changing, so that constantly the race tends to become more and more akin to that of those Americans who, like myself, are of the old stock but not mainly of English stock. Yet I think that, as time goes by, mutual respect, understanding, and sympathy among the English-speaking peoples grow greater and not less. Any of my an cestors, Hollander or Huguenot, Scotch man or Irishman, who had come to Ox ford in "the spacious days of great Elizabeth" would have felt far more alien than I, their descendant, now feel. Common heirship in the things of the spirit makes a closer bond than common heirship in the things of the body. More than ever before in the world's history, we of today seek to penetrate the causes of the mysteries that sur round not only mankind but all life, both in the present and the past. We search, we peer, we see things dimly; here and there we get a ray of cle.tr vision as we look before and after. We study the tremendous procession of the ages, from the immemorial past when in "cramp elf and saurian forms' the creative forces "swathed their too much power,'' down tc the yesterday, a few score thousand years distant only, when the history of man became the overwhelming fact in the history cf life on this planet; and, studying, we see strange analogies in the phe nomena of life and death, of birth, growth, and change, between those physical groups of animal life which we designate as species, forms, races, and the highly complex and composite entities which rise before our minds when we speak of nations and civiliza tions. Applied Science. It is, this study which has given science its present-day prominence. In the world of intellect, doubtless the most marked features in the history of the past century have been the ex traordinary advances in scientific knowledge and investigation and in the position held by the men of science with reference to those engag ed in other pursuits. I am not now speaking of applied science- of the science, for instance, which, having revolutionized transportation on the earth and the water, is now on the brink of carrying it into the air; of the science that finds its expression in such extraordinary achievements as the telephone and the telegraph; of the sciences which have so accelerat ed the velocity of movement in social and industrial conditions for the changes in the mechanical appliances of ordinary life during the last. three generations have been greater than in all the preceding generations since history dawned. I speak of the science which has no more direct bearing upon the affairs of our every day life than literature or music, painting or sculpture, poetry or his tory. A hundred years ago the or dinary man of cultivation had to know something of these last subjects; but the probabilities were rather against his having any but the most superfi cial scientific knowledge. At present all this has changed, thanks to the interest taken in scientific discover ies, the large circulation of scientific books, and the rapidity with which ideas originating among the students of the most advanced and abstruse sciences become, at" least partially. domiciled in the popular mind. Another feature of the change, of the growth in the position of science in the eyes of every one, and of the greatly increased respect naturally re sulting for scientific methods, has been a certain tendency among scientific students to encroach on other fields. This is particularly true of the field of historical study. Not only have scientific men insisted upon the ne cessity of considering the history of man, especially in its early stages, in connection with what biology shows to be the history of life, but, further more, there has arisen a demand that history shall itself be treated as a science. Both positions are in their essence right; but as regards each po sition the more arrogant among the Invaders of the new realm of know ledge take an attitude to which it is not necessary to assent. As regards the latter of the two positions, that which would treat Vlstory henceforth merely as one branch of scientific study, we must of course cordially agree that accuracy In recording facts and appreciation of their relative worth and interrelationship are just as necessary in historical study as in any other kind of study. The fact that a book, though Interesting, is un true, of course removes it at once from the category of history, how ever much It may still deserve to re tain a place in the always desirable group of volumes wnicn deal with en tertaining fiction. (Continued on Next Page.) AMONGTHE LITERATI. Colonel Roosevelt Talks to Them About the "Big Stick." London, June 7. The Institute of Jour nalists gave a supper last night In the historic Stationers' hall to the American correspondents accompanying ex-President Roosevelt. Three hundred of the most prominent literary men, including the edi tors of most of the London papers were present. Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, of the Daily Telegraph, presided, with Mr. Roosevelt at his right, and Ambassador Reld at his left. George Laval Chester ton, the well known sporting writer, sat next to Mr. Roosevelt, who, in his speech, took the "Big Stick" for his text. He explained the original utterance and em phasized tne importance oi speaking soft lv rather than carrying the bis: stick. Mr. Roosevelt said that he was im pressed with the need of newspapers speaking softly regarding the affairs of otner nations. Dwelling- on the improved Arurlo-Amprf. can relations, he said that they had im proved exactly in a ratio with the United States' growth in strength and import ance, as a nation oecsme strong and self confident, the likelihood of its getting into quarrels with other nations decreased. Edward T. Cook, who was formerly edi tor of the Westminster Gazette, and later of the Daily News, gave a toast to the Americans, which was responded to by Gilson Gardner. BEARS STAMPEDED. Compromise on Rate Question Causes Them to Rush to Cover. New York, June 7. The stock mar ket today showed a violent trans formation from the demoralized weak ness of yesterday, and prices jumped in even greater disorder than attended the slump of yesterday. First prices were from 1 to over 5 points higher than last night's closing. The news that the dispute between the government authorities and the railroads over the proposed advance in freight rates had been settled at the conference at the White House yester day threw the uncovered bears into a panicky condition and they bid price up on themselves in their scramble to secure stocks. London quotations at the time the New York stock market opened showed prices of Americans 1 to over 4 points higher than yesterday's New York closing and first prices were run up over even that level. Prices started, there, at 1 to 4 points higher than their close on Saturday, yesterday's declines being lost In that excess on the recov ery. Buyers at yesterday's low prices thus found profits accrued that were far in excess of any ordinary move ment of weeks. The rush to realize these profits carried prices backwards immediately, the reaction running from 1 to 3 points. DRAM GALLON OF WATER Then John Hays Weighed Enough to Enlist in Navy. Evansville, Ind., June 7. John Hays, aged 26, living at Mount Ver non, 111., tried to enlist in the United States navy here yesterday and was told he lacked Just one pound of the necessary weight. He went outside and drank a gallon of water. Then be returned and proved to the recruit ing officer that he had brought him self up to the required weight. He was accepted. Hays felt no ill effect from the large quantity of water he drank. STORM IN SOUTHWEST. Lightning and Rain Damages Buildings at Wichita Today. Wichita. .Kan., June 7. A heavy rain that began falling at midnight contin ued this morning in south central Kan sas and northern Oklahoma. The elec trical storm which accompanied the rain during the early morning caused dam age to several buildings which were struck by ngntmng. Aeroplane Race In France. Saumur, France, June 7. The first town to town aeroplane race in France from Anglers to Saumur, a distance of 30 miles, by rail, was won by Martinet, ho flew between the two points in 31 minutes, at a speed of about 51 miles an hour. There were five starters, who were sent away at five minute inter vals. Legagneaux was second, and Dixon third. Weather Indications. Chicago. June 7. Forecast for Kan sas: Showers tonight or Wednesday. Expect moderate southeasterly winds. Threatening weather and possibly rfiower.s this afternoon.. NO FLYING TODAY Bad Weather Blocks Daring Feats of Aeroplane Men. All in Readiness for Great Work in Air, Wednesday. "SKYLARK" IX SHAPE. Aviator Mars Has Machine Test ed for Opening Flight. Hundreds of Tisitors Arriving Here for Gala Time. They did not fly today. It was decided at noon to call off the aviation meet which was scheduled to take place this afternoon. "As far as the weather Is concerned,'." said J. C. Mars, the aviator, "I can fly rain or shine, bu the difficulty would be to get a crowd. J. C. Mars, the Aviator, as He Apppears Prior to Making a Flight in the "Skylark." "I want you to assure the people that we will make the flights. We will have three days of them and probably an evening flight thrown in, even if it takes until Sunday to do it. "I am losing a chance to make $3,000 in Cairo, 111., by not toeing there Sat urday and Sunday to engage in a meet, because I want the Topeka people to be pleased. As it is, it is possible that I will make the Topeka-Kansas City cross country flight on Sunday. "They have raised the biggest part of the money, and I guess they will get the $5,000 all right. In Kansas City they are taking a great deal of inter est in the event." "Suit Cases" Here. The "suit case'' bigade which has arrived In the city In anticipation of the big flying meet is not as large as would have been the case had the day broken fine, but nevertheless the stores and other places where shelter Is af forded have been crowded with visi tors not the sidewalks on account of the precipitation. Carriages and street cars have been doing a good business today. Today was scheduled as "Topeka day" at the meet, and consequently the largest out of town crowd was ex pected to be recorded Wednesday and Thursday and this if the weather clears off will undoubtedly be large in deed, as no pains have been spared In advertising the flying event throughout the entire state, through the medium of the news columns of the newspa pers, and the hanging ot "flyers" and posters by the railroad companies. Heavy Ticket Sale. Those who are handling tickets to the aviation meet along Kansas ave nue state that the sale has been heavy today as the people are seeing the ad vantage of avoiding the rush at the gate. At Stansfield's alone during the past few days five or six hundred tick ets nave Deen soiu. J C. Mars asks to have the state ment corrected to the effect that he was a ''shine" on the Chicago streets at the age of 13. He sold newspapers at that period of his career. This morning while a majority of the "good people" of the city were still slumbering, the "Skylark" flyer of J. C Mars was removed from the vacant lot near the Shawnee building where thousands of people have seen it, to the aviation field. t noon the engine of "bird machine was tested so that the aviator could feel assured that it could be depended upon under all conditions during the dare-devil flights. Rj in Leather. Aviator Mars will make his initial appearance on the Taylor field clad in a suit of leather worn for the first time. It was designed especially, for aviation purposes, and to a certain ex tent resembles the rig of a "gridiron" hero especially on account of the fact that it is padded. This uniform is per fectly plain on the oustide, due to the pockets having been placed on the inside. When new recruits are being taught the art of aviation they are dressed in an especially heavily padded suit of leather. They wear a headgear, a mask, and heavy gloves to prevent splinters from being driven into the hands in case the machine is smashed. During the first practice the raw operator simply runs over the ground and then he practices turning the ma chine, first to the left and then to tha right. Danger In Flying. When he becomes familiar with the general manipulation of the machine he learns to lift his great bird-like ma chine oft the ground, and this is the time when trouble generally begins, for usually a new man will not land prop erly and the chances are that he will smash the machine, and probably sus tain some painful bruises, at least, himself. Then it is that his nerve will fail him unless he is made to jump imme diately into another machine and make another attempt. If a man goes to the hospital for a few days and begins to brood over his difficulties he is likely to lose his nerve. Aviators employed by Curtiss take their first lessons on the ice of Lake Keuka near Hammondsport, N. Y., where the Curtiss factory is located. For pr otlce old machiness which are good for a flight, are used. Big Factory Force. In speaking of the Curtiss Aeroplane factory It might be interesting to note that 250 men are here employed. This factory turns out aeroplane and motor cycle engines in large numbers. Aviators work on a contract. They can't take out insurance so it is neces sary for Glenn H. Curtiss to bind him self in case of accident to protect tha families, of the daring sky flyers em ployed by him. Mars and Willard are working under such contracts. A por tion of the contract reads like a will. Mars Says "Goodbye." Before making a flight Mars is In the habit of taking his valuable pa pers out of his pockets and turning them over to his wife. He then bids her an affectionate farewell, as though there were a chance that he might not see her again. People sometimes wonder why the aviators demand so much money in payment for their efforts. "If we were to come down on the trunk of a tree," said one of Curtiss' men, "and knock off the silk from a wing of the machine it would necessitate an ex penditure of $200 in order to repair the damages, as the material is ex tremely, expensive. "Our business has to be transacted quickly. For example, here is an Item of $18.50 for telegrams during the past week. We have to get our in structions from Curtiss over the wires. "It cost $35 to bring a single ma chine by express from Joplin to To peka, and there are scores of other items which a person would not think about under ordinary circumstances." BATTLE OPENS IN IOWA. Standpatters and Insurgent Fighting It Out at the Polls. Des Moines, la., June 7. While both Democrats and Republicans will nomi nate state tickets and congressional candidates at Che primaries in Iowa to day, interest is centered almost solely in the factional strife between the so called "standpatters" or "stalwarts," and the "progressives" of the Republi can party. The slogan of the "progres sives" Is the endorsement of the state's ir.eurgent representatives at Washing ton. The "stalwarts' are for party regu larity as represented by Congressman Hull, of Des Moines, and Congressman Smith, a member of both the old and the new rules committee of the lower house sit AVahington. Congressmen Pickett, Haughen, Good, Kendall and Hubbard, all rated as "progressives" are certain of renomi nation, there being no opposition. In the Second district Congressman Daw son is not seeking renomination and the Republican nomination will go without a co at eft to Charles Grilk, of Daven port. At the head of the state ticket Gov ernor Carroll is opposed by Warren Garst. Three candidates seek the Dem ocratlc nomination Stephen H. Basher of Waterloo, Edwin G. Moore of Ottum- wa, and Claud R. Porter at Centerville. In the Seventh -district, Des Moines, where Judge Prouty seeks to wrest the Republican congressional nomination from Congressman Hull, the early vote was heavy. Fair weather was reported throughout the state. In the cities, the polls opened at 7 a. m.. and will close at 8 p. ni. In the country districts voting began at 8 o'clock and will cease at 9 p. m. Both Sides Confident, Pierre. S. D., June 7. The South Dakota insurgents and stalwart Re' publicans are fighting for supremacy at the primary .election being held to day. Both the stalwart and insurgent leaders express the utmost confidence .hat their faction Will win. xne stalwart campaign managers estimate the plur ality of Samuel W. Eirod for governor will be 10 ,to 12 thousand. The Insurgent managers claim that reports received indicate that Gover nor Vessey's renomination for gover nor is assured by 10.000 plurality. Chairman Richards is confident of vic tory for the entire insurgent ticket. congressional, state and legislative. Jn addition to two Republican state and congressional tickets, George W. Kgan, of Sioux Falls, is making a race for governor as an independent Repub lican candidate. BURIEDJN BEDS. Sleeping Inhabitants of Calitri, Italy, Overwhelmed. Earthquake Tumbles Their Houses Down Upon Them. THE DEAD NUMBER 37. Whole Province of Avellino Re ceives the Shock. Many Flee to the Country in Their Night Clothes. Naples, June 7. An nrthouxlra nf unusual Intensity was experienced throughout southern Italy, including the island of Sicily, at 3:07 o'clock this morning. The extent of the damaee wroiin-ht had not been determined this after noon, but it is believed at least 3 7 people were killed and that property losses In certain districts will ba heavy. The ShnPlf nnn.nr.i? tn hava anant itself chiefly in the province of Avel lino, in central Campania, east of Naples. The village of Calitri suffered the most. One report has it that half tne town was destroyed. Fatalities! are T-OI-wir-t at- Con Cneel Chanche, Castelbaronla and San Sele. me aisturDance disrupted telegraph generally in the provinces affected and further details are awaited with ap prehension. .The populations of the various towns which felt the quake were thrown into a nnnlr. n-nA t Vi n mithnrf. ties had much difficulty in restoring oraer. -King Victor Emmannfl orH onun Helena, on receiving word of the suf- ferinar left on a Rupriw 1 rain fnr tha scene and soldiers and medical corps were dispatched to render first aid. It was announced early in the fore noon that the government had called on parliament for an appropriation of S100.000 for use flmtino- t Vi o fTI ir-t cr The latest report received up to early evening toia or nve deaths at San Sele, a villflee of the nrnvi rfp rf Pnto -ri in the compartment of Basilicata. Avellino, Department of Campania, Italy, June 7. The province of Avellino bore the brunt of a severe earthquake that was felt throughout southern Italy shortly before dawn today. Fatal ities occurred and much damage was done to property but up to noon it was impossible to determine the extent of the devastation. In this city little harm was done and the only death reported was that of an old man who died of fright. The popu lation, however, was terror stricken. Reports from villages throughout the province are much more grave. Twen ty people are reported killed at Calitri, which is said to have been badly dam aged. The situation there is distressing. Ten persons are said to have met death at San Zossl, where the sulphur waters with which the district is rich, were released from bounds by the dis turbance and flooded the vicinity. From the flood noxious gases arose. At Chlanca a house fell, burying and killing an aged man. One person was killed and several were injured at Cas tellbaronla, Clabretto was badly dam aged. Squads of workmen, together with detachments of soldiers, were dispatch ed from this place to assist the suffer ing villagers. It was In the darkest hour of tha morning when the shock was feH here. The sleeping town was aroused by the snaking of walls, the rattling of fur niture and the falling of plaster. In a moment panic had seized the 20,000 in habitants, who live in daily fear of ai seismic disaster. Flee From Their Homes. Half naked men, women and children fled from their homes, screaming with terror. They had in their minds visions of Messina and the horror oC Reggio. Recently there was gossiped about a prediction that the approach of Halley"s comet portended the end of the world. The authorities kept their heads but they could not stay the mad rush for tha squares and open districts outside the city. The 'wildest confusion pre vailed and the frightened ones could: not be reasoned with; could not ba stopped. In the squares hundreds threw themselves on their faces an 4 Implored the mercy of the Almighty. Then the religious fervor found expres sion in half organized processions tor the shrine of St. Andrews, the protector of the town. Others climbed to the sanctuary. After several hours of frantic entreaty, the authorities suc ceeded in re-establishing a semblance of calm and relief squads were organized. As is usually the case the inhabitant refused to re-enter their homes, fear ing that another quake would occur. Throughout the day the police were busy bringing together the scattered! members of families and reassuring tha frightened ones. Word that the king and queen wer en route here on a special train serveit to afford new courage to the people anl had a good effect in restoring order. Calitri Half Destroyed. Naples, June 7. A severe earthquake Shock caused a number of deaths and much property damage In central Cam pania 'early today. The disturbance appears to have centered in the pro vince of Avellino. Telegraph wires were torn down and communication with the affected dis trict was broken. Meager reports re ceived this forenoon indicate that the greatest damage was done at Calitri in the province of Avellino. i Calitri is said to have been half de stroyed and 20 people are reported to have been killed there. Other deaths occurred at Yalta nearby and It Is feared fatalities will be reported from, other villages which for a time are cut off from communication with this city. The shock occurred at 3:07 this morn ing, while the people were still in their beds. Many houses at Calitri tumbled, burying the occupants In the ruins. Those who escaped death or serious Injury fled terror stricken from their homes and into the country. Nona waited to don street clothes and as a result many suffered from exposure. Troops were dispatched from all quarters Into the affected district as soon as the loss of life and property CContinued on Page Klyht.?

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1910. AN OMINOUS SIGN. (Continued from Preceding Page.) Books Should Be Readable. But the converse also holds, at least to the extent of permitting us to insist upon what would seem to be the ele mentary fact thut a b"ok which is writ ten to be read should be readable. This rather obvious truth seeraj to have been torgotien by some of the more zealouo scientific historians, who apparently hold that the worth of a histories 1 book lj direotly in proportion to the impossi bility of reading it, save as a painful dutv. Now I am willing that history efcail ba treated as a branch of science, tut only on conditon that it also re mains a branch of literature; and. fur thermore. I believe that as the field of rlence encroaches on the field of litera ture, there hould be a corresponding encroachment of literature upon sci -pnrei and I hold that one of the great tteeds, which can only be met by very nble men whose culture Is broaa enougn to include litera ure as well as 3oier.ee, 4 thn nped of books for scientific lay men. We need a literature of science which shall be readable, bo tar irom doing away with the school of great historians, the school of Polyblus and Tacitus, Oibbon and Macaulay, wb need irerely that the future writers of his tory, without losing the qualities whic 1 have made those men great, shall also v.tillze the new facts and new methods which science has put at their disposal. Dryness is not in itself a measure of value. No "scientific" treatise about St. Louis will displace Joinville, for the very reason tnat JMnville's place i3 In both history and literature; no minute study of the Napoleonic wars will teach us more than Marbot and Marbot is as interesting as Walter Scott. Moreover, certain at least of the branches of sci ence should likewise be treated by mas ters in the art of presentment, eo that the layman interested in science, no less than the layman interested in his tory, shalf have on his shelves classics which can be read. Whether this wish be or be not capable of realization, it assuredly remains true t!iat the grat historian of the future must essenially represent the ideal striven after by tha great historians of the post. The in dustrious colleotor of fac's occupies an honorable but not an exalted position, and the scientific historian who produces books which are not literature must rest content with the honor, substantial but not of the .highest type, that belongs to turn who gathers material which some time some great master shall arise to use. Science of Evolution. Yet, while freely conceding all that can be said of the masters of litera ture, we most insist upon the historian of mankind- working in the scientific Bplrit, and using the treasure houses of science. He who would fully treat of man must know at least something of biology, ofi the science that treats of living, breathing things; and espe cially of that science of evolution which is inseparably connected with the great name of Darwin. Of course there is no esact parallelism between birth, growth and death of species in the animal world and the birth, growth and death of societies in the world of man. Yet there is a certain parallelism. There are strange anal ogies; it must be that there are ho mologies. How far the resemblance between the two sets of phenomena are more than accidental, how far biology can be used as an aid in the interpretation of human history, we cannot at pres ent say. The historian should never forget, what the highest type of sci entific man is always teaching us to remember, that willingness to admit ignorance is a prime factor in devel oping wisdom of knowledge. Wisdom Is advanced by research which en ables us to add to knowledge; and, moreover, the way for wisdom is made ready when men who record facts of vast but unknown import, when asked to explain their full significance, are willing frankly to answer that they do not know. The research which enables us to add to the sum of com plete knowledge stands first; but sec ond only stands the research which, while enabling us clearly to pose the problem, also requires us to say that with our present knowledge we can offer no complete solution. Let me illustrate what I mean by an instance or two taken from one of the most fascinating branches of world history, the history of the higher forms of life, of mammalian life, on this globe. Geologists and astronomers are not agreed as to the length of time neces sary for the changes that have taken place. At any rate, many hundreds of thousands of years, have passed by since in the eocene, at the beginning of the tertiary period, we find the traces of an abundant, varied and highly developed mammalian life on the land masses out of which have grown the continents as we see them today. The ages swept by, until, with the advent of man substantially in the physical shape in which we now know him, we also find a mammalian fauna not essentially different in kind, from that of the present day. Wisdom Turned to Foolishness. Throughout this immense period form succeeds form, type pucceds type. In obedience to laws of evolution, of progress and retrogression, of develop ment and death, which we as yet un derstand only in the most imperfect manner. As knowledge Increases, our wisdom is often turned into foolish ness, and many of the phenomena of evolution which seemed clearly explic able to the learned master of science who founded these lectures, to us now adays seem far less satisfactorily ex plained. The scientific men of most note now differ widely In their esti mates of the relative parts played in -volution by natural selection, by mu- Hay be permanently overcome by proper personal efforts WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE ONE TRULY BENEFICIAL IAXATIVE-SYRUP OFFISSANDEUXIRofSENM. WHICH ENABLES CNE TO FORM REGULAR HABITS DAILY. SO THAT ASSISTANCE S NATURE MAY BE 6RADUALLV DISPENSED WITH WHEN ROWER HEEDED. AS THE BEST OF REMEDIES. WHEN REQUIRED, ARE TO ASSIST NATURE AND HOT TO SUP PLANT THE NATURAL FUNCTIONS, WHICH fSUST DEPEND ULTIMATELY UPON PROPER BOURISHMENT. PROPER EFFORTS AND RIGHT LIVING GENERALLY. To 6et rrs beneficial effects. Always buv the 6ENUiNE.SYRUPFlGS AND ELIXIR SENNA MANUFACTURED BV THE California FigSyru?5 FOR SALE BV ALL LEADINQ DRUGGISTS Tt SIZE UNLY. PRICE &UT A BOTTLE tation, by the Inheritance of acquired characteristics; and we study their writings with a growing impression that there are forces at work which our blinded eyes wholly fail to appre hend; and where this is the case, the part of wisdom Is to ay that we be lieve we have such and such partial explanations, but that we are not war ranted in saying that we have the whole explanation. In tracing the his tory of the development of fauna! life during tnis period, the age of mam mals, there are some facts which, are clearly established, some great and sweeping changes for which we can ascribe with certainty a reason. There are other facts as to which we grope in the dark, and vast changes, vast catastrophes, of which we can give no adequate explanation. Before illustrating these types, let us settle one or two matters of terminol ogy. In the changes, the development ana extinction, of species we must re member that such expressions as "a new species, or as a species becom ing extinct," are each commonly and indiscriminately used to express totally different and opposite meanings. Of course the new species is not new in the sense that its ancestors ap peared later on the globe's surface than those of any old species tottering to extinction. Phylogenetically. each animal now living must necessarily trace its ancestral descent back through countless generations, through aeons of time, to the early stages of the appearance of life on the globe. All that we mean by a "new" species is that, from some cause or set of causes, one of these ancestral stems slowly or suddenly develops into a form unlike any that has preceded It; so that while in one form of life the ancestral type is continuously repeated and the old species continues to exist, in another form of life there Is a devi ation from the ancestral type and a new species appears. Extinction of Species. Similarly, "extinction of species" is a term which has two entirely different meanings. The type may become ex tinct by dying out and leaving no de scendants. Or it may die out because, as the generations go by, there is change, slow or swift, until a new form is produced. Thus in one case the line of life comes to an end. In the other case it changes into something differ ent. The huge titanothere and the small three-toed horse both existed at what may roughly be called the same period of the world's history, back in the middle of the mammalian age. Both are extinct in the same sense that each has completely disappeared, and that nothing like either is to be found in the world today. But whereas ail the individual titanotheres finally died out, leaving no descendants, a number of the three-toed horses did leave descendants, constantly changing as the ages went by, finally developed into the highly specialized one-toed horses, asses, and zebras of today. The analogy between the facts thus indicated and certain facts in the de velopment of human societies is strik ing. A further analogy is supplied by a very curious tendency, often visible in cases of intense and extreme special ization. When an animal form becomes highly specialized, the type at first, be cause of its specialization, triumphs over its allied rivals and its enemies, and attains a great development; until in many cases the specialization be comes so extreme that, from some cause unknown to us, or at which we merely guess, it disappears. The new species which mark a new era com monly come from the less specialized types, thn less distinctive, dominant, and striking types, of the preceding era. When dealing with the changes, cata clysmic or otherwise, which divide one period of palaeontological history from another, we can sometimes assign causes, and again we cannot even guess at them. In the case of single species or of faunas of very restricted localities the explanation is often self evident. A comparatively slight change in the amount of moisture in the cli mate, with the attendant change in vegetation, might readily mean the de struction of a group of huge herbivores with a bodily size such that they need ed a vast quantity of food and with teeth so weak or so peculiar that but one or two kinds of plants could furnish this food. Again, we now know that the most deadly foes of the higher forms of life are various lower forms of life, such as insects or microscopic creatures conveyed into the blood by insects. There are districts in South America where many large animals, wild and domestic, cannot live because of the presence either of certain ticks or of certain baleful flies. Sleeping Sickness. In Africa there is a terrible benus of poison fly, each species acting as th: host of mlscroscoplc creatures which are deadly to certain of the higher ver tebrates. One of these species, though harmless to man, is fatal to all domes tic anlrr.als, and this although harmless to the closely related wild kinsfolk of these animals. Another is f,tal to man himself. bimg the cau-e of the "sleep ir.g sickness" which in many large dis tricts has killed out the entire popula tion. Of course the development or the extension of the range of any such in sects, and any one of many other causes which we see actually at work around us. would readily account for the de struction of some given species or even for the destruction of -several fpecies in a limited area of country. When whole faunal groups die out, over large areas, the question i3 di.' er ent, and may or may. not be suscepti ble of explanation with the knowledge we actually possess. In the old arcto geal continent, for instance, in what is liow Europe, Asia, and North America, the glacial pei-iod made a complete but of course explicable change in the fau nal life of the rearien. At one time the continent held a rich and variea fauna. Then a period of great cold supervened, and a different fauna succeeded the first. The explanation of the change is obvious. But in many other cases wo cannot c much as hazard a guess as to why a given change occurred. One of the most striking instances of these inexplica ble changes is that afforded by tne his tvry of South America t ward the cloo of the tertiary period. For ages South America had been an island by itself, cut off from North America at" the very time that the latter was at least occasionally in land communication viith Asia. During this time a very peculiar fauna grew ur in South Amer ica, some of the types resembling noth ing now existing, while others are rec ognizable as ancestral forms of the ant eaters, sloths, and .trimrlil'o of today. It wax a peculiar hu 1 diversified mam n.alian fauna of, on the whole rather t-mall species, and without any repre sentatives of the animals with which mun h-is teen mit familiar during his career on this earth. Towards the end of the tertiary there was an upheaval of land between this old South American island .ind North America, r.ear what is now the Isthmus of Panama, thereby mukins a bridge across which the teeming animal life of the northern continent had access to this queer southern continent. There followed an inru3h of huge, or swift, or formidable creatures which had at tained their deevlopment in the fierce competition of the arctogeal realm. Elephants, camels, horses, tapirs, s-Aine, saber-toothed tigers, big cats, wolves, bears, deer, crowded into South Ameri ca,' warring each against the other in comers and against the eld long-existing forms. A riot of life followed. South American Fauna. Not only was the character of the South American fauna totally changed by the invasion of these creatures from the north, which soon swarmed over the continent, but it was also changed through the development wrought in the old inhabitants by the severe competition to which they were exposed. Many of the smaller or less capable types died out. Others developed enormous bulk or com plete armor protection, and thereby saved themselves from the new beasts. In consequence. South America soon became populated with various new species of mastodons,, saber-toothed tigers, camels, horses, deer, cats, wolves, hooved creatures of strange shapes and some of them of giant size, all of these being descended from the immigrant types; and side by side with them there grew up large autochthon ous ungulates, giant ground sloths well-nigh as large as elephants, and armored creatures as bulky as an ox but structurally of the armadillo or ant-eater-type; and some of these lat ter not only held their own, but ac tually in their turn wandered north over the isthmus and invaded North America. A fauna as varied as that of Africa today, as abundant in species and individuals, even more noteworthy because of its huge size or odd type and because of the terrific prowess of the. more formidable flesh-eaters, was thus developed in South America, and flourished for a period which human history would call very long indeed, but which geologically was short. Then, for no reason that we can as sign, destruction fell on this fauna. All the great and terrible creatures died out, the same fate befalling the changed representatives of the old autochthonous fauna and the descen dants of the migrants that had come down from the north. Ground sloth and glyptodon, saber-tooth, horse and mastodon, and all the associated ani mals of large size, vanished, and South America, though still retaining its connection with North America, once again became a land with a mammalian life small and weak com pared to that of North America and the Old World. Its fauna is now marked, for instance, by the presence of medium sized deer and cats, fox like wolves, and small camel-like creatures, as well as by the presence of small armadillos, sloths and ant- eaters. In other words, it includes diminutive "representatives of the giants among: the older forms of mammalia and of giants among the new and intrusive kinds. The change was widespread and extraordinary, and with our present means of infor mation it is wholly inexplicable. There was no ice age, and it is hard to im agine any cause which would account for the extinction of so many species of huge or moderate size, while small er representatives, and here and there medium-sized representatives, of many of them were left. Periods of Change. Now, as to all of these phenomena In the evolution of species, there are, if not homologies, at least certain an alogies, in the history of human soci eties, in the history of the rise to prominence, of the development and change, of the temporary dominance and death or transformation, of the groups of varying kind which form races or nations. Here, as in biology, it is necessary to keep in mind that we use each of the words "birth" and "death," "youth" and "age" often very loosely, and sometimes as denoting either one of two totally different con ceptions. Of course, in one sense there is no such thing as an 4 old or a 'young nation, any more than there is an "old" or "young" family. Phylo genetically, the line of ancestral de scent must be of exactly the same length for every existing individual. and for every group of individuals, whether forming a family or a nation. All that can properly be meant by the terms "new" and "young" is that in a given line of descent there has sud denly come a period of rapid change. This change may arise either from a new development or transformation of the old elements, or else from a new grouping of these elements with other and varied elements; so that the words "new" nation or young" nation may have a real difference of significance In one case from What they have in an other. As in biology, so in human history. a new form may result from the spe cialization of a long-existing and hith erto very slowly changing generalized or non-specialized form; as, for in stance, when a barbaric race from a variety of causes suddenly develops a more complex cultivation and civiliza tion. This is what occurred, for in stance, in western Europe during the centuries of the Teutonic and later the Scandinavian ethnic overflows from the north. All the modern countries of western Europe are descended rom the states created by these northern invaders. When first created they could be called "new" or "young" states in the sense that part or all of the peo ple composing them were descended from races that hitherto had not been civilized at all, and that therefore for the first time entered on the career of civilized communities. In the south ern part of western Europe the new states thus formed consisted in bulk of the inhabitants already in the land under the Roman empire; and it was here that the new kingdoms first took shape. Through a reflex action their Influence then extended back into the cold forests from which the invaders had come, and Germany and Scandi navia witnessed the rise of communi ties with essentially the same civiliza tion as their southern neighbors; though in those communities, unlike the southern communities, there was no infusion of new blood, and in each case the new civilized nation which gradually developed was composed en tirely of members of the same race which in the same region had for ages lived the life of a slowly changing barbarism. The same wa true of the Slavs and the Slavonized Finns of eastern Europe, when an infiltration of Scandinavian leaders from the north and an infiltration of Byzantine cul ture from the south joined to produce the changes which have gradually, out of the little Slav communities of the forest and the steppe, formed the mighty Russian empire of today. Xew and Old. Again, the new form may represent. Good Time? Last night eating big dinner is often the maker of a BAD TODAY. Why not? Over-eating means extra work for the stomach and bowels. You've got to suffer if you don't help nature unload with CASCARETS. "They work while you sleep" you're O. K. in the A. M. Tonight's the night to take care of to morrow. 505 CASCARETS rec box week's treat ment. All druggists. Biggest seller in Uie world. Siulioa boxes a month. mfrv1,? a PWttina;" off from a long established, highly developed and -specialized nation, in this case the nation is usually spoken of as a "young," and is eorrectly spoken of as a "new" na tion; but the term should always be uued with a clear sense of the differ ence between what is described in such case and what is described by the same term in speaking of a civilized nation just developed from a barbar ic?" Carthaga and Syracuse were new f'tiea .compared with Tyre and Cor inth; but the Greek or Phoenician race was in every sense of the word m oiu in tne new city as in the old P'ty- So, nowadays, Victoria or Man itoba is a new community compared with England or Scotland but the an cestral type of civilization and cul tuTe is as old in one case as in the other. I of course do not mean for a moment that great changes are not produced by the-mere fact that the old civilized race is suddenly placed in surroundings where it has again to go through the work of taming the wil derness, a work finished many cen turies before in the original home of the race; I merely mean that the an cestral history is the same in. each case. We can rightly use the phrase a. new people" in speaking of Cana dians or Australians, Americans or Airiicanaers. But we use it in an en tirely different- sense from that in which we use it when speaking of such communities aa those founded by the Northmen and their descendants dur ing that period of astonishing growth which saw the descendants of the Norse sea-thieves conquer and trans form Normandy, Sicily, and the British Islands; we use it in an entirely differ ent sense from that in which we use it when speaking of the new states that grew up around Warsaw, Kief, Novgorod, and Moscow, as the wild savages of the steppes and the marshy forests struggle haltingly and stum blingly upward to become builders of cities and to form stable governments. The kingdoms of Charlemange and Alfred were "new," Compared with the empire on the Bosphorus; they were also in every way different; their lines of ancestral descent had nothing in common with those of the polyglot icaim wnicn paid trlDute to the Caesars of Byzantium; their social problems and aftertlme history were totally different. This Is not true of tnose "new" nations which spring di rect from old nations. Brazil, the Argentine, the United States, are all "new" nations, comnared with thn nn. tions of Europe; but, with whatever cnanges in detail, their civilization is nevertheless of the general European type, as shown in Portugal, Spain, and n.ngiana. 'i'he differences between these "new" American and these "old" European nations are not as great as tnose wnicn separate the "new" na tions one from another and the "old" nations one from another. There are in each case very real differences be tween the new and the old nation differences both for good and for evil; but in each case there is the sum an cestral history to reckon with. th sam. type of civilization, with its attendant Denents ana shortcomings; and, after the pioneer stages are passed, the problems to be solved, in spite of superficial differences, are in their es sence the same; they are those that confront all civilized peoples, not those that confront peoples struggling from uai oaxiam into civilization. Disappearing Tribes. So, when we speak of the "death" of a tribe, a nation, or a civilization, the term may be used for either one or two totally different processes; the analogy with what Occurs in biological history being complete. Certain trlbe3 of savages, the- Tasmanians, for in stance, and. various little clans of American IndiajiB,, have within the last century or two-completely died out; all of the individuals have perished, leav ing no descendants, and the blood has disappeared. Certain other tribes of Indians have as tribes disappeared or are now disappearing; but their blood remains, being absorbed into the veins of the white intruders, or of the black men introduced by these white intrud ers; so that in reality they are merely being transformed into something ab solutely different from what they were. In the United States, in the new state of Oklahoma, the Creeks, Cherokees, Chlckasaws, Delawares, and other tribes are in process of absorption into the mass of the white population; when the state was admitted, a couple of years ago, one of the two senators and three of the five representatives in congress were partly of Indian blood. In but a few years these Indian tribes will have disappeared as completely as those that have actually died out; but the disappearance will be by absorp-ti-n and transformation into the mass of the American population. A like wide diversity in fact may be covered in the statement that a civil ization has "died out." The nationality and culture of the wonderful city build ers of the lower Mesopotamian Plain have completely disappeared. and though doubtless certain influences dating therefrom are still at work, thev are in such changed and hidden form as to be unrecognizable. But the dis appearance of the- Roman empire was of no such character. There was com plete change, far-reaching transforma tion, and at one period a violent, dis location; but it would not be correct to spe either of the blood or the culture of old Rome as extinct. We are not yet in a position to dogmatize as to the permanence or evanescence of the various strains of blood that go to make up every civilized nationality; but It is reasonably certain that the blood of the old Roman still flows through the veins of the modern Italian: and though there has been much intermixture, from many differ ent foreign sources from foreign con querors and from foreign slaves yet it is probable that the Italian type of today finds its dominant ancestral type in the ancient Latin. As for the cul ture, tho civilization of Rome, this is even more true. It has suffered a com plete transformation, partly by natural growth, partly by absorption of totally alien elements, such as a Semitic re ligion, and certain Teutonic govern mental and social customs; but the proceFS was not one of extinction, but one of growth and transformation, both from within and by the accretion of outside elements. Basis of Civilization. In France and Spain the inheritance of Latin blood is small; but the Roman culture which was forced on these coun tries has been tenaciously retained by them throughout all their 'subsequent ethnical and political changes, as the batis on which their civilizations have been bi'l t. Moreover the permanent fpreading of Roman influence was not limited to Europe. It has extended to ar-d over half of that new world which vtis not even dreamed of during the thousand years of brillant life between the birth and the death of Pagan Rome. This new world was discovered by one Italian, ard its mainland first reached and named by another; and in it, over a territory many tiines the size of Tra Jan's empire, the Spanish, French, and Portuguese adventurers founded, beside the St. Lawrence and the Amazon, along the flanks of the Andes and in the shadow of the snow-capped volca-n-is of Mexico, from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan, cornniunilie-., row flourishing and growing apace, which in speech and culture, and even as regards one strain in their blood, are the lineal heirs of the ancient Latin civilization W hen wo speak of the aijpe trance, tiie piling away, of au- cient Babylon or Nineveh, and of an cient Rome, we are using the same terms to describe totally different phe nomena. The anthropologist and the historian y ?allze much more clearly than ineir predecessors of a couple of gen erations back how artificial mcst great nattonahties are. and how loose is the terminology usually employed to de- f, 6 l.hem' T,3ere la a element of unconscious and rather pathetic humor in the sinr.plicity of half a century ago Te, ?n8e of the Ar"an and the if iv2 1t-h reyerential admiration, as th w "XT0' not merely some thing definite, but something ethnologi- Iy!facrediJth' ters paving much r 2 and fB,th in their own Sd,Jw fellY"countrymen's purity o; from 1hese imaginary Aryan or niincest?rs that was felt a few hfE??,?8 ear2ier by t,,e various no- d recif?o On-. Wf traCed ther llneaSe arti ,.Qin- Aeneas, or Noah. Now tbw course- a students recognize n Ku2li m.ay not be' and often is not, IitL Shteat nnection between kin fchip in tongue. In America we find tllt rteS; Wmt red' and cTnani.h S?eSV Jslteh. French, and Spanish, mingled in such a way tnat the run a? r&aK8 ,f race continually run at right ar.gles to the lines of cleavage of speech; there being com m unities practically of pure bkxodo' hf;., Aryan teutonic are terns ?n- h,,t3. dSflnlte Mystic m ;?'.b,Ut whether they have any such ethnical meanings as we-e forr-Vi-iv attributed to thfm is w doW&7th we cannot even be sure whether the ancestors of most of those wT car futons originally spoke an Aryan I.'SES &l aIS The ton- Celtic, agam clnPv-rwylear w..h6n "so ""ffulsti ii 1 Yh6n U8ed to dw-Tibe a race it means almost nothing until we find rul t'? ,ne,of sevenS tet&tOltteZ .S"01 the wrlter or speaker t J?'1" for instance, it is used i?8snRt the short-headed, mtdium S ,,e common throughout middle Europe, from east to m-gt it denr-t.i something entirely different from what tiflVS W?e tho name 13 applied to yellow-haired opponents of the ?mf fT'd, later Gr8: while if XTtt r deslKnat any modern nation ality It becomes about as loose nn,i meaningless as the ttra" nSEsaJSS National Unity. Most of the great societies which hill piIvLT.? h'.8rh cviIization anS ve P'ayed a dominant part in the world have beenand are artificial not merely In social structurt"but in race ?vne.fAnClUdin8r totallv "ff-ret fnnL ?P A great nation rarely be zenf ny,,nlrace' thouSh its citi IVlfJF 6 &Uyi have one essentially national speech. Tet the curious fact remains that these great artificial so cieties acquire such unity that in each nnfbtU th.f parts feeI a subtle Tsym-. pathy, and move back, all together in response to some stir or throbbing cerned by our senses. National unity iffSt?. f10" ,apt than race umty to be alaCV reon with; until indeed we M race Terences as fundamen otke en visions of mankind, when they became ....P, .a.,, uiw umerences of na tionality, speech, and creed sink into littleness. An ethnological map of Europe in which the people were divided accord ing to their physical and racial char acterlsticB. onrh no and shape of head, would bear no .coduumiae wnatever to a map giv ing the Political rlllHslnn. fhtt alities, of Europe while, on the con trary, a linguistic map would show a general correspondence between speech and nationality. The northern riouLiiumu is in diooo ana physical type more tienrlv niiis n vn r man-speaking neighbor than to the x- iciiciuuoii ot me -aieaiterranean sea board; and the latter, in his turn, is nearer tn thn rrn.tnion Q n i. who dwells beside the Channel or aiong tne trinutarles of the Rhine. But in essential characteristics, in the oua.litipn that tail in of a nationality, all these kinds of j- rencmnen ieei Keenly tnat tney are one and are rtiffftrfint frnm on eiders, their differences dwindling in to insignificance compared with the extraordinary, artificially produced resemblances which bring them to gether and wall them off from the outside world. The same Is true when we compare the -German who dwells where the Alpine springs of the Dan ube and the Rhine interlace, with the physically different German of the Baltic lands. The same is true of Kentisnman, cormshman ana rork shireman in England. Tn rienMrtor rmt wltn (riitm, rtf Tin man beings in simple and primitive re lations, but with highly complex, high ly specianzea, civinzea or semi-civi- 1 1 11. LI. 1 I V. VJ ,0 111 U 1 i 1 1 1 L caution in drawing analogies with what has occurred in the development or tne animal woria. net even in some of the phenomena In the growth and disappearance of these complex, artificial groups of human beings re semble what has happened in myriads of instances in the history of life on this planet. Why Nations Fail. W Iiy UU ftllHL Cil 1111L1UI v iii,ii wj, 1 li-ml v, n Vi ,-1 .4 i-i f WllUiSO 1.1413111. til a. u 3 c speech and culture much more than by a bond of blood, show periods of extraordinary growth, and again of sudden or lingering decay? In some cases we can answer readily enougn; in other cases we can not as yet even guess what the proper answer should be. If in any such case the centrifu gal forces overcome the centripetal, the nation will of course fly to pieces, and the reason for its failure to be- n .1 m i i fn,i.a Ic ratAn. tn every one. 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But there are plenty of other phe nomena wholly or partially inexplic able. It is easy to see why Rome trended downward when great slave tilled farms spread ovr what had once been a countryside of peasant proprietors. hen greed and luxury and sensuality ate like acids into the fiber of the upper classes, while the mass of the citizen grew to depend, not upon their own exertions, but upon the state, for their pleasures and their very livelihood. But this does not ex plain why the forward movement stopped at different times, so far as different matters were concerned; at one time as regards literature, at an other time as regards architecture,, at another time as regards city building. There is nothing mysterious about Rome's dissolution at the time of the barbarian invasions; apart from the impoverishment and depopulation of the empire, its fall would be quite suf ficiently explained by the mere fact that the average citizen had lost the fighting edge an essential even under a despotism, and therefore fax more essential in free, self governing com munities such as those of the English speaking peoples of today. The mys tery is rather that out of the chaos and corruption of Roman society dur ing the Last days of the oligarchic re public there should have sprung an empire able to hold things with rea sonable steadiness for three or four centuries. But why. for instance, should the higher kinds of literary productiveness have ceased about the beginning of the second century, whereas the following centuries wit nessed a great outbreak of ecerzv in the shape of city building in the prov- uities, not only in western Europe, but in Africa We can not even guess why the springs of one kind of en ergy dried up while there was yet no cessation of another kind. Fall of Holland. Take another and smaller instance, that of Holland For a period cover ing a little more than the seventeenth century. Holland, like some of the Italian city states at an early period, stood on the dangerous heights of greatness beside nations so vastly her superi.TT fn territory and population as to make It inevitable that sooner or later she must fall from the glorious and perilous eminence to which she had been raised by her own indomitable souL. Her fall came; it could not have been indefinitely postponed; but it came far quicker than it needed to come, because of shortcomings on her part to which both Great Britain and the United States would be wise to pay ReedL Her government was singularly Ineffective.' tge- decentralization being such as. often to permit the separatist, the particularism spirit of the provinces to rob the central authority of an ef- I flciency. This was bad enough. But the fatal weakness was that so com mon in rich, peace loving societies. where men bate to think of war as pos- j siole. and try to Justify their own re luctance t face it either by high sounding moral platitudes or else by a philosophy of short-sighted material ism. The Dutch were very wealthy. They grew to believe that they could hire others to do their fighting for them on Land; and on sea, where they did their own fighting, and fought very well, they refused tn time of peace to make ready fleets so efficient aa either to insure the Dutch against the peace being broken or else to give them the victory when war came. To be opulent and unarmed is to secure ease in the present at the almost certain cost of disaster In the future. It is therefore easy to see why Hol land lost when see did her position among the powers; but It is far more difficult tc explain why at the same time there should have come at feast a partial loss of position tn the world of art and letters. Some spark of divine fire burned itself out tn the national souL As the line of great statesmen, of great warriors, by land and sea. came to an end, so the line of the great Dutch painters ended. The loss of pre eminence tn the schools followed the loes of pre-eminence in camp and n council chamber. In the little republic of Holland, as fa the great empire of Rome, it was not death which come, but transformation. Both Holland and Italy teach us that races that fall may rise again. In Hol land, as in the Scandinavian kingdoms of Norway and Sweden, there was. irt a sense, no decadence at all. There was nothing analogous to what ha3 befalTen so many countries: no lowering of the general standard of well being, no een erai loss of vitality, bo depopulation. What happened was. first, a flowering time.' in which the country's men of action and men of thought gave it a commanding position among the na tions of the day: then, this period of command passed, and the state re- volved tn an eidy. aside from the sweep of the mighty current of world life: and yet the people themselves in i their internal relations remained sub tantiaUy unchanged, and in man? 1 fields of endeavor have now recovered themselves and play again a leading part. Decadence of Rome. In Itily. here- history is recorded for a Cjr longer time- the corrre of affairs wis d: fer-r-nt. When the Roman Em p're. that was really Roman, went dorrn fn mm. t-ere fviowcd 21 inrcrvat of centnries when the gUxvn was almost arrelreved. Every form of luxury an-1 f: ivolitT. erterrrrtuoas reprgn.r-ee f-rr jteriou work, of enervating self-ir-c"ul?em?e. every form of vice and weak ness which we regard as mot iminou- in the eivtlixatwn of today, had been a,t work throuedout T'aly for genera tions. The mtion had lot all patrrt fem. It ha I ceased to bring foirth fight ers or workers, had ceased to bring forth men of mark of anj kind, anst the remnant of the Italian peopie cowered in fcelr-1 uust among the hor-.e-boofs of the barbarians a? the wild northern bands rode in to take the bind for a prey and the cities tor a spoil. It was one of the great cataclysms of history, bat in the enl it .a seen that what came had been in part change and growth. It was not alt jiere destruc tion. Xot out did Rime vre a vast heritage of lang-jare. en'tire. taw. iffeas. to all the modern world, but the people ef Italy kept the old biooii as the chief strain in their veins- la a few cenrTfries crrn- a "ondVrf al n.w bir.h of ItaPy. Then for four or five fccbfr t years there w?-s a gzowth -jf nny Btt1 city states whwrfv tn their energy born in peace and war. la their fierce, fervent Hfe. fn the high quality of their men of arts and letters, and in their utter inability to combine so as ta preserve order among themselves or to repet outside invasion, cm no un fairly be compared with elaseie Greece. Again Italy fell, and the bund, was ruled fcy Spaniard or Frenchman or Aus trian; and again, tn the nine'eercth century- there came for the third time a wonderful new birth. Contrast this persistence of the old type in its old borne and tn certain lands vhich it had conqoere! with its ntter disappearance o certain -other Ltnds where it was intrusive, hut where it ac one time seemed as firmly estab lished as in Italy certainly a in Spain or GauL. No mote curious example of the growth and disappearance of a na tional type can be found than la the case of the Graeeo-Roman dominion in western A;ia and noran Africa. All told it. extended over nearly a thou sand years, from the davs of Alexan der till after the time of HeracSua. Throughout these lands the yet re -r-'ain the ruins of innumerable cities which tell how firmly rooted that do cdnion must once have been. The ov ershadowing and far-reaching imnort arce of what occurred is sufficiently shown by the familiar fact that the New Testament was written tn Greek; htle to the early Christians North Af rica seemed as much a. Latin land as Sicily or the valley of the Fo- The in trusive peoples and their culture flour ished fn the lands for a period twice as long as that which has elapsed since modern history, with the voyage of Col umbus, may fairly be said to have be gun; and then hey withered like dry grass before the flame of the Arab in vasion, and their place knew them no r dc re. They overshadowed the ground; they vanished; and the old types reap peared in rheir old homes, witn beside them a new type, the Arab. Macb Is Unknown. Now. as to all these changes we can at least be sure of the main facts. We know that the Hollander remains in Holland, though the greatness of Holland has passed; we know that the Latin blood remains in Italy, whether to a greater or less extent; and that the Latin culture has died out in the African realm it once won, while it has lasted in Spain and France, and thence has extended itself to conti nents beyond the ocean. We may not know the causes of the facts, save par tially; but the facts themselves we do know. But there are other cases in which we are at present ignorant even of the facts; we do not know what the changes really were, still less the hidden causes and meaning of those changes. Much remains to be found out before we can speak with any cer tainty as to whether some changes mean the actual dying out or the mere transformation of types. It is. for in stance, astonishing how little perma nent change in the physical makeup of the people seems to have been worked in Europe by the migrations of the races in historic times. A tall, fair haired, long-skulled race penetrates to some southern country and establishes a commonwealth. The generations pass. There is no violent revolution, no break in continuity of history, noth ing in the written records to indicate an epochmaking change at any given moment; and yet after a time we find that the old type has reappeared and that the people of the locality do not substantially differ in physical form from the people of other localities that did not suffer such an invasion. Does this mean that gradually the children of the invaders have dwindled and died out; or, as the blood is mixed with the ancient blood, has there been a chanee. part reversion and part as similation, to the ancient type in its old surroundings? Do tint of skin, eves, and hair, shape cf skull, and stature, change in the new environ ment, so as to be like those of the older people who dwelt in this en vironment? Do the intrusive races, without change of blood, tend, under the pressure of their new surround ings, to change in type so as to re semble the ancient people of the land? Or. as the strains mingled, has the strain dwindled and vanished, from caues as yet obscure? Has the. blood of the Lombard practically disappear ed from Italy, and of the Visigoth from Spain, or does it still flow in large populations where the old physical type has once more become dominant? Here in England, the long-skulled men of the long barrows, the short skulled men of the round barrows, have they blended, or has one or the other type actually died out; or are they merged in some older race which they seeminglv supplanted, or have they adopted the tongue of civilisation of some later race which seemingly destroyed them? We can not say. We do not know which of the widely dif ferent stocks now speaking Aryan tongues represents in physical charac teristics the ancient Aryan type, nor where the type originated, nor how or why it Imposed its language on other types, nor how much or how little mix ture of blood accompanied the change of tongue. Rational Growth and De-ay. The phenomena of national growth and decay, both those which can and those which cannot be explained, have been peculiarly in evidence during the four centuries that have gone by since the discovery of America and the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope. These have been the fotir centuries of by far the moet intense and constantly accelerating rapidity of movement and development that the world has yet seen The movement has covered all the fields of human activity. It has witnessed an altogether unexampled spread of civilized mankind over the world as well as an altogether unex ampled advance tn man's dominion over nature: and this, together with a Grain foods contain the Vital principle in greater Quantities than other foods. If ycu eat right your vitality Will remain a t its height for years. Grape-Nuts food Is mae from wheat and barley. It contains "vital phosphates" Which Nature places ia Certain parts cf the grains And is sa prepared As to be quickly absorbed and Converted into vital energy. Ii ycu want to store up energy For the accomplishment Of the greatest success, Make Grape-Nuts a part Of your regular ci-t--There's a Reason" Read "The Road to WellviTe." Fcund in every third package. literary and artistic activity to be matched in but one previous epoch. This period of extension and develop ment has been that of one race, the so called white race, or, to speak more accurately, the group of peoples irvtrtg in Europe who undoubtedly have a cer tain kinship of blood, who profess the Christian religion and trace back their culture to Greece and Rome. The memories of men are short, and ft is easy to forget how brief is tins period of unquestioned supremacy of the so-called white race. It ia but a thing of yesterday. During the thou sand years which went before the open ing of this era of European supremacy, the attitude of Asia and Africa, of Hun and Mongol, Turk and Tartar, Ana and Moor, had on the whole been that ef successful aggression against Europe. More than a century passed after the voyages of Columbus before the mas tery in war began to pass from the Asiatic- to the European. Daring that time Europe produced no generals or eocouerors able to stand comparison with Selim and Sotyman. Baber and Akbar. Then the European advance gathered momentum, unlit at the pres ent time peoples of European blood hold dominion over all America and Australia and the islands of the sea. over most of Africa, and the major half of Asia. Much of this world con quest is merely political, and such a conquest is always likely in the long run to vanish. But very much of it rep resents not a merely political but an ethnic conquest; the intrusive people having either exterminated or driven, out the conquered peoples, or else hav ing imposed upon them its tongue, law. culture, and religion, together with a strain of its blood. During this period substantially all of the world achieve ments worth remembering are to be credited to the people of European descent. The first exception of any consequence is the wonderful rise of Japan within the last generation a phenomenon unexampled tn history, for both in blood and tn culture the Jap anese Kne of ancestral descent is as remote as possible from ours, and yet Japan, while hitherto keeping most ef what was strongest in her ancient character and traditional has assimi lated with curious completeness most of the characteristics that have given power and leadership- to the west. Phenomenon of Mankind. During this period of intense and fe verish activity among the peoples of European stock, first one and then an other has taken the lead. The move ment began with Spam and Portugal. Their Cowering time was as brief as it was wonderfuL The gorgeotis pages of their auna-is are illumined by the fig ures of warriors, explorers, statesmen. poets, end painters. Then their days cf greatness ceased. Many partial ex planations can te given, but something remains behind, some hidden force for evil, some hidden source of weakness. upon which we cannot lay our hands'. Yet there are many signs that in the New World, after centuries ot arrested growth, the peoples of Spanish and Por tuguese stock are entering upon an other era of development, and there are other signs that this is true also in the Iberian peninsula itself. Aboot the time that the first brilliant period of the leadership- of the Iberian peoples was drawing to a close at the ether end of Europe, in tae land of meianctsoiy steppe and melancholy for est, the Slav turned in his troubled sleep and stretched out his hand to grasp leadership and dominion. Since then almost every nation, of Europe has at one time or another sought a place in the movement of expansion; but for the last three centuries the great phe nomenon of mankind has been the growth of the Engrt-epeaking- peoples and thefr spread over the world's waste spaoess. Comparison is often made between the empire of Britain and the empire of Rome. When tucged relatively to the effect en all modern civilixation, the empire of Rome is of course the more important, simply because the nations of Europe and their offshoots tn other continents trace back their culture either to the earlier Rome by the Tiber or the later Rome by the Bosphorus. The empire of Rome ts the most stu pendous fact in lay history; no empire Later In time can be compared with 1 But thi i is merely another way of say- icg that the nearer the source the more important becomes any deflection of the stream s current. Aosorutety. com paring the two empires one with the other in point of actual achievement. ar.d disregarding the immensely in creased effect -n other civurxaxiorrs which inhered In the older empire be cause rt antedated the younger by a cc-tspie of thousand years, there 13 lit tle to choose between them as regards the wide and ab"'nnd.ng i'-.terest and im portance of their careers. In the world of antiquity each great empire rose when its predecessor had already crumbled. By the time that Rome loomed Large over the horixort of fcistory. there were left for her to con tend with only decaying civilizations acd raw barbarisms. When she con quered Pyrrhas. she strove against the strength of but one off the many frag- n.ents into whteh Alexander's kingdom had fallen. When she conquered Carthage. he overthrew a foe ag:iinst vhom for two centuries the single Greek city of Syracuse had contended on equal terms: t was not the sepoy arnries of the Carthaginian ptotocracy fcut the towering genias of the house of Barca, which rendered the struggle forever memorable. It was the dis tance and the desert, rather than the Farthian horse-bowman. that set bounds to Rome tn the east; and on the north her advance was curbed by the vas: reaches of marshy woodland. rather than by the tall barbarians who dwelt therein. During the long gen erations if her greatness, and until the sword dropped from her withered hand. the Parthian was never a menace of aggression, and the German threatened her but to die. Expansion cf England. On the contrary, the great expan sion of England has occurred, the great empire of Britain has been achieved, during the centuries that have also seen- mighty military na tions rise and flourish on the conti nent of Europe. It is as if Rome, while creating and keeping the empire she won between the days of Seipro and the days of Trajan, had at the same time held her own with the Nineveh of Sargon and Tiglath. the Egypt of Thothmes and Rameses. and the king doms of Persia and Maeedon in the red flush of their warrior dawn. The em pire of Britain is vaster in space, in population, in wealth, m wide variety of possession, in a history of multiplied and manifold achievement of every kind, than even the glorious empire of Rome. Yet. unlike Rome. Britain has won dominion tn every clime, has carried her flag by conquest and set tlement, to the uttermost ends cf the earth, at the very time that haughty and powerful rivals, in their abound ing youth or strong maturity, were eager to set bounds ta her greatness, and to tear from her what she had won afar. England has peopled conti nents with her children, has swayed the destinies of teeming myriads of alien race, has ruled ancient mon archies, and wrested from all comers the right to the wortd's waste spaces, while at home she has held her own before nations each of military power comparable to Rome's at her zenith. Rome fell by attack from without. only because the frr within her own borders had grown incurable. What true of your country, my hearers, is true of my own; while we should be vigilant against foes from without, yet we need never really fear them so long as we safeguard ourselves against the enemies within our own households; and these enemies are our own pas sions and f jllie. Free peoples can escape being mastered fcv other only by being abe ta master themselves. We Americans, and you people cf the Bntasa Isles, alike, need ever to keep in mind that, among the many quali ties indispensable to the success of a great democracy, and second only to a high and stern sens? of duty, of moral obligation, are self knowledge and self mastery. You. my hosts, and I may sot agree in all our views; some of yon would think me a very radical democrat as, for the matter of that, I am; and my theory of imperialism would probably suit the anti-imperialists as little as it would suit a cer tain type of forcible-feeble imperialist. But there are some points en which we must all agree if we think soundly- The precise form of government, democratic or otherwise, is the instru ment, the tool, with which we work. It Is important to have a good teoL But. even if it ta the best possible, it is only a tool. No implement can ever take the place of the guiding intelli gence that wields it. A very bad tool will ruin the work of the best crafts man; but a good tool in bad hands is no better. In the last analysis the all important factor in national greatness is national character. I tbe End Xtmr? There are questions which we of the great civilised cations are ever tempt ed to ask of the future. Is our time of growth drawing to an end? Are we as rations soon to come under the rule of that great law of death which is itself but part of the great Law of life? None can talL. Forces that we can see and other forces that are hidden or thxt can but 2tmly be apprehended are at work all around ns, both for good and for evil. The growth in luxury, in kve i of ease, in taste for vapid and frivolous excitement, is coin evident and un healthy. The most ominous sign is the diminution in the birth-rate. In the rate of natural increase, now to larger or lesser degree shared by atost of the dvtilxed naidons of central and western Europe, of America and Aas- traiia; a diminution so great that if it continues for the next century at the rate which, has obtained for the last S years, all the more highly civilize-1 1 peoples will be stationary or else have begun to go backward ia population, while many of them will have- already gone very far backward. There is much that should give us concern for the farenre. But there is much also which should give us hope. No man Is more apt to be mistaken, than the prophet of evil. After- the French Revolution fn 1S30-. Niebuhr haxarded the guess that all clvtiaation was about to go down with a crash, that we were ai Iabout to share the fall of third and fourth century Rome a respectable but painfully overworked comparison. The fears once expressed by the followers of Malthas as to the future off the world have proved ground less as regards the civilized portion of the world; tt is strange indeed to look back at Carlyle's prophecies of some 7 years ago. and then think of the teeming life of achievement, the life of conquest of every kind, and of noble effort crowned by success, which has been ours for the two generations since he complained to high Heaven that all the tales had been told and all the songs sun, and that an the deeds really worth doing had been done. I beiieve with aii my heart that a great future remains for u; but whether it does or does not. our duty is not al tered. However the battle may go. the soldier worthy of the name win with utmost vigor do his allotted task, and bear himself as valiantly in defeat as in victory. Come what wlli we be long to peoples who have not yielded to the craven fear of being great. In the ages that have gone by. the great na tions, the nations that have expanded and that have played a rmghty part in the world, have tn the end grown old and weakened and vanished; but so have the nations whose only thought was to avoid all danger, alt effort, who would risk nMng and who therefore gained nothing. In the end the same fate may overwhelm ail alike: but the memory of the one type perishes with it. while the other leaves its mark deep on the history of ail the future of mankind. Nations May Be Born A nation that seemingly dies may be bora again; and even though in the physical sense it die utterly, it may yet hand down a -history of heroic achieve ment, and for all time to come may profoundly influence the nations that arise in its place by the impress of what it has done. Best of all is it to do our part well, and at the same time to see our blood Hve young and vital in men and women fit to take up the task as we lay It down; for so shall our seed inherit the earth. But if this, which is best, is denied us." then at least tt is ours to remember that if we choose we can be torch bearers, as our fathers were before us. The torch has been handed on from nation to nation, from erviUxation to cirili&tion. throughout ail recorded time, from the dim years before history dawned, down to the blazing splendor of this teeming century of ours. It dropped from the hand of the coward and the sluggard, of the man wrapped tn luxury or love of ease, the man whose soul was eaten away by self indulgence; it has been kept alight only by those who were mighty of heart and cunning of hand. What they worked at. providing it was worth doing at all. was of lest matter than how they worked, whether in the realm of the mind or the realm of the body. If their work was good, if what they achieved was off substance, then high success was really theirs. In the first part of this lecture I drew certain analogies between what had occurred to forms of animal life through the procession of the ages on this planet, and what ha occurred and is occurring to the great artificial civ iUaatioiis which have gradually spread over the world's surface during the thousands of years that have elapsed since cities of temples and palaces first rose beside the Nile and Euphrates, and the harbors of Minoair Crete bris tled with the masts of Aegean craft. But of course the parallel ia true only in the roughest and most general way. Moreover, even between the civiliza tions of today and the crrilixatjons off ancient times there are differences so profound that we must be cautious tn drawing any conclusions for the pres ent based on what has happened in the past. While freely admitting all of our follies and weaknesses of today, it is yet mere perversity to refuse to re alize the incredible advance that has been made in ethical standards. I do not believe that there ts the slightest necessary connection between any weakening off virile force and this ad vance in the moral standard, this growth of the sense of obligation to one's neighbor and of rercetanee to do that neighbor wrong. We need have scant patience with that slDy cynicism which insists that kindliness of cfaarac terly only accompanies weakness off character. 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Thones 447 628 Kansas Ave. strongest character are the very men of loftiest and most exalted morality, so I believe that in national Hfe as the ages go by we shall find that the permanent national types will more and more tend towards those in which, while the intellect stands high., char acter stands higher; in which, ragged strength and courage, rugged capacity to resist wrongful aggression by oth ers, will go hand tn hand with a lofty scorn of doing wrong to others. This ts the type of TtmoLeon. of Hampden, of Washington and Lincoln. These were as good men. as disinterested and unselfish men. as ever served a state; and they were also as strong men as ever founded or saved a state. Surely such examples prove that there is nothing Ctopian in our effort to com bine Justice and strength m the same nation. The really high civilizations must themselves supply- the antidote to the self-indulgence and love of ease which they tend to produce. Problems to Solve. Every modern civilized nation has many and terrible problems to solve within its own borders, problems that arise not merely from Juxtaposition of poverty and riches, but especially from the self-consciousness of both poverty and riches. Each nation must deal with these matters in its own fashion, and yet the spirit tn which the prob lem ts approached must ever be funda mentally the same. It must be a spirit of broad humanity; off brotherly kind ness: of acceptance of responsibility, one for each and each for all; and at the same time a spirit as remote is the poles from every form of weakness and sentimentality. As in war to Far don the coward ts to do cruel wrong to the brave man whose life his cowardice Jeopardizes, so in civil affairs tt is re volting to- every principle of Justice to give to the lazy, the vicious, or even the feeble and dull-witted, a reward which is really the robbery of what braver, wiser, abler men have earned. The only effective way to help any man is to help him to help himself; and the worst lesson to teach him is that he can be permanently helped at the ex pense of some, one else. True liberty shows itself to best advantage in pro tecting the riahts of others, and espe cially of minorities. Privilege shouai not be tolerated because it is the ad vantage of a minority, nor yet because tt is to the advantage of a majority. No doctrinaire theories of vested rights or freedom of contract can stand in the way of our cutting out abuses from the body politic Jus as little can we af ford to follow the doctrinaires of as impossible and Incidentally of a high ly undesirable social revolution whica. in destroying individual rights (includ ing property rights) and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worth while. It is an evil and a dread ful thing to be callous to sorrow and suffering, and blind to our duty to do aSk things possible for the betterment of social conditions. But it is an un speakably foolish thing to strive for this betterment by means so destruc tive that they would leave no social conditions to better. In dealing with all these social problems, with the inti mate relations) of the family, with wealth in private use and business use. with labor, with poverty, the one prime necessity lis to remember that, though hardness of heart ts a great evil, it is no greater an evil than softness of head. Individual Toties. But in addition to these problems the most tattraate and Important of ail which to a larger or less degree affct all the moder nations somewhat aiiae. we of the great natiens that have expanded, that are now tn complicated relations with one another and wua alien raes. have special problems and special duties of oiir 6wtl T052 beioeg- t- a nar.in which pos sesses the greatest empire upon which the stjtt has ever shoce. I bekmg to a nation which Is trying, on a scale hither to unexampled, to work out the prooiems cf government for. of. and by the people, while at the same time doing the inte rnational duty of a great power. But there are certain problems whisctt botj of as have to soi-re. and as to which our stand ards shouid be the same. The English man, the maa of the British Isle, in his tarwiu homes across the seas, and the American, both at home a 3d abroad, are brought into contact with utterly alien rvtw.rii aome witis a ctirilizatKro. more ancient than oar ewn. others sail in. or having but recently arisen from, tne bar barism which, oar people left behind ages aira. Tae problem that arise are of weil- n :p-t-t iacon?er-afe4e diafieuity. They eaa- sM be solved By tne foolish sentimentality LI QUAWZ off stay-at-home people, with little patent red pea, and those eut-and-dried theories of tne political nursery which have vjca limited applicability amid the crash off elemental forces. Neither can they tw sol-red by the. raw brutality ef the men who, whether at home or on the rooga frontier of civilization, adopt might as tne only standard of right in dealing wita other men, and treat alien races only as subjects for exploitation. No hard and fast rule can be drawn as applying to ail alien race, because they differ from one another far more widely than some cf tbenx differ from as. But ther are one or tw rules which must not be forgotten- In the long run, there eaa be no Justification for one raire managing Or controlling another unless the manage ment and control are exercised tn the in terest and for the benefit of that othr race. This t what oij people. hiv ia the main done, and most continue te tht future in even greater deaxee to do. in India. Egypt, and the Philippine alike. In the next place, as regards every race, everywhere, at home or abroad, we can not afford to deviate from the great rule of righteousness which bids as treat eacia man on his worth as a man. He most cot be sentimentally favored because he belongs to a given race; he must sot be given immunity in wrong-domg. or per mitted to cumber the ground, or given other privileges which would be denied to the vtci.ms and unfit among ourselves. On the other hand, where he acts m a way which would entitle him to respect and reward if he wer of our own stock, he is just as much entitled to that restwet an-i reward if he comes cf anotner stock. eva though that other stock produces a mueix smaller proportion of meo of his typet th does our own. This has nothing to d with social intermingling, with, what ia called social equality. It has to do mere ly with tae question of doing to eacxx man and each woman that elementary justice which will permit him or her t( gain from Life the reward which shottlS always a.cooipany thrift, sobriety, self control, respect for the rights of others, and hard and intelligent work to a (rive?a end. To more than such just treatment no man is entitled, and less than sucit just treatment no man should receiva. International Duties. The other type of duty is the Interna tional duty, the duty by one nation t aaocner. I hold that the Itn of morality whica should govern individuals in their dealings ooe with the other are just mm binding concerning natione ia their deal ings one with the other. The application of the moral Law must be different La th-s two cases, because m one ease it has, ana in the other tt has not. the sanction, of a civil law with force behind it. The indi vidual can depend for ais rights upon tha courts, which, themselves derive theia force from the police power of the state. The cation can depend upon nothing off the kind and theref 're, as things are now. tt ia the highest duty of th cost ad vanced and. trest peoples to kep them selves ts such a state of readiness as t forbid to any barbarism or aepotism .the hope of arresting the progress of tha world by striking down the nations that lead tn that progress. It would be foolisi indeed to pay heed to the unwise persona who desire disarmament to be begun by the very peoples who, of all others, should not be left helpless before any possible foe. But we most reprobat quite as strongly both the leaders and too peoples who practice, or encourage or coo tioce. aggression and tninurcy by th strocg at the expense of the weak. We should tolerate lawlessness and wteked ness neitoer by the weak nor by th strong; and both weak and strong w should tn return treat wTttt scrupulous! fairness. The foreign policy of a great and self-respecting country should be con ducted on exactly the same plane of honor, of insistence upon one s own rights and of respect for the rights of others, aa when a brave and honorable man is deal tag with his fellows. Permit me to sup port this statement out of my own experi ence. For nearly eight years I was the bead cf a great natt3n and enarged ese eiaiiy with the conduct of its foreura poiu-y; and during those years I took no action with, reference to any other people on the face of the earth that I would not have feit justified m taking as aa individ ual tn dealing with other individuals. I be'eve that we of the great civilized nations of t iav have a right to feei that Iona- careers of achievement lie before our several countries. To each of ta is vouchsafed the honorable prtvige of lining his part, however small, in that work. Let us strive hardily for success even if by so doing we risk failure, spurn ing the poorer souls of smaU endeavoC wno know neither failure nor suceac Let us hope that our own Wood ah., continue tn the land, that our childreo and children's children to endless genera tions snail arise to take our places and play a mighty and dominant part tn ta world. But whether this be denied or granted by the years we shall not see, let at leajtvthis satisfaction be ours that we have carried onward the Lighted torca ta eur own day and generation. If we do this. then. aS-cur eyes close, and we g out into the darkness, and ether hands grasp the torch, at least we eaa say that our prt has been borne veil anx valiantly. See J. THOMASinfPtR CO. for lumber and DEW ET PORTLAND CE MENT. Guaranteed the best aua factu 'ed.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1910. t&trpeka tate Journal By FRANK P. MAOLENNAN. fEntered July L 187t5. aa eecond-elaaa matter at the postofftca at Topeka, Kaa, under the act of conaresa, VOLUME XXXVII No. 134 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. cents a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at tne same price in any w aaa town where the paper baa a carrier By mall, one year 2 By mall, three months -J Miuratr edition nt iWIt. ona rear.... BELL TELEPHONES. Business Office .........2 Reporters' Room INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. PHviktA h....h VMVanM Call 1117 and aik The State Journal operator for per son or oepartment deelrea. PERMANENT HOME. Town Btata Journal building, 800 and 05 Kansas avenue, corner Eighth. New York Office: 290 Fifth, avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Hartford building. Paul Block, manager. FULL LEASED WIRE P.EPORT OF TTIF. ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Frees and receives the full day telegraph report of that aveat news or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news la received In The Slate lour 'nal building over wires for this sole pur noee. HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY. Subscribers of the State Journal "T during the summer max have the paper mailed regularly each day to any address at the rate of ten cents a week or thirty cents a month (by mall only.) Address changed as often as desired. While out .of town the State Journal will be to you like a daily letter from home. Advance payment Is requested on Miese short time subscriptions, to save bookkeeping expenses. The unusual has happened. Judge Pollock of the federal court has handed down a decision upholding a Kansas law. Jack Johnson's admirers ought to be greatly encouraged because of the news that Jeffries has trained away his grouch. It occurs to the "Washington Post that the back-to-the-farm movement is very popular with those who don't intend to go. Tag Day has been set for June 18. And it is not a bit too early for the formation of plans to make it a ban ner occasion. Don't forget to constitute yourself a committee of one to show all pos sible attention and courtesy to the many visitors who are going to be in Topeka this week. A niche In the Hall of Fame should be reserved for a statue of the Kansas hen that Is as lively as a pullet at the age of 18 years and has mothered 110 less than 475 chicks. James J. Hill rightly declares that there is no cause' for fright over the government's suit against the rail roads. But the stock speculators in the country will try to do ail they can to make people think otherwise. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis manages to keep in the limelight through the medium of the unique sentences he Imposes. His latest ef fort In this direction is sending a man to Jail for one hour. On one or more occasions he has imposed a fine of one cent and on another he reached the fancy figure of $29,000,000. A New York banker hit off exactly the recent situation in the stock mar ket when railroad shares tumbled on the announcement of the suit brought against the railroads to restrain them from raising their rates in concert. He said: "A lot of people are selling what they do not own because the railroads are not getting something they never had." Youths In the American schools in the Philippine islands are characterized as becoming Americanized rapidly be cause they are showing great pro ficiency in the playing of baseball and other athletic games popular In this country. A record of the results at tained by them in their examinations in arithmetic and other studies wouid be more to the point. Building permits taken out in this city during the first week in June contemplate an expenditure of $95, 835. And it wasn't so long ago that such a figure would have been consid ered a respectable building record for a whole month. Those people who are Insisting that Topeka is not en joying a healthy growth of the most substantial sort should take to the woods and hide out for a time. Even the Associated Press will have Its little Joke once in a great while. In Its recent news dispatches about the final passage of the railway legislation In the senate, the introductory sen tence ran: "The senate passed the ad ministration railroad bill, etc." Please imagine an "administration" bill of any kind that would get the support of all the insurgents in the senate and most of the Democrats as well. The high cost of living has struck Germany with such a heavy hand that the friends of Kaiser Bill are pushing an appropriation measure in the Prus sian diet which will bring his majesty's annual allowance up to $5,000,000 a year. Inluded in the emperor's expenses is the item of $700,000 a year which is needed to maintain the court theaters. Purely 'there are few "angels" in the theatrical world of the proportions of the German ruler. Even with the railroad bill out of the way business will be brisk for mem bers of the United States senate. The various and important conservation measures, the bills granting separate statehood to Arizona and New Mexico, 1 several other mattters of moment. will now come up for consideration. And If It takes the senate as long; to dispose of each of these matters as it did to pass the railroad bill, congress will be In session for several moons yet. 7 WELCOME, MERCHANTS. It's a sincere welcome that is being extended today by the business men and all other citizens of Topeka to their guests the merchants from other sections of the state who are gathering here in such large numbers. The good will of the merchants of Kansas means much to the people of this city and they are glad that the opportunity has rolled around again when they can attest in some slight fashion to their appreciation, of the many favors which the merchants of the Sunflower state have shown them. A city of any size only grows and develops in proportion to the business it Is able to transact with the mer chants in the smaller localities in the territory which immediately surrounds It. The ever-Increasing development of Topeka as a manufacturing center and as a trade-distributing point, is due, therefore, in no small measure to the fine patronage its business men have received from the other mer chants of the state. That this has been large in the past is apparent by the manner in which the business ac tivities of the city have grown of late. That it will be larger in the future is the hope of every Topekan. This will only be possible, though, as long as Topeka .and Topekans can deliver the goods. And the visiting merchants have an ample opportunity to find out for themselves Just what Topeka busi ness men can do in the way of manu factures and in every line of trade. The doors of the business houses and factories of the city are open to slil the visitors. It Is to be hoped that most of them will take advantage of this opportunity to discover the multi tude of things which are made and marketed here. It is needless to state that these things are Just as good as any that can be found in any com mercial center of the country. They are all on display to speak for them selves. Matters of business, however, are merely incidental to Merchants' week at Topeka. A rare good time for all that is the slogan of the hour. A series of entertainments have been ar ranged, which, it is to be hoped, will prove most satisfactory to the visitors. Not the least of them is the great avi ation meet which has been booked for the same days that the merchants are to be here. And to the many' people, not of the merchants' party, who are to be here in the next couple of days to take advantage of the first oppor tunity given in Kansas to see flights of real aeroplanes, a most sincere wel come is also extended. SEE AMERICA FIRST. Items have appeared In the news papers from time to time of late tell ing that the volume of tourist travel in Europe on the part of the people of the 'United States is to be unpre cedented during the summer season which has Just begun. An official of one of the big steamship companies was quoted the other day as estimating that fully $12,000,000 would be ex pended in Europe during the month of June by American travelers. At that rate the amount of money which will be spent this year by American tourists in foreign climes will reach a rather stupendous figure. And it is safe to say that the great majority of these Americans who are getting ready to scatter so much good American money in foreign travel are decidedly ignorant through per sonal experience with the many won derful things which are worth seeing in their own country. But traveling to Europe has become a fad with those who are getting into position to afford it. That can be the only ex cuse for most of it. Certainly these trips are not taken for the purpose of seeing the magnificent in nature. If this is the case they are conceived in ignorance for in no section of the world has nature been so prodigal in the creation of the wonderful and the marvellous, the things really worth seeing as she has in these same Unit ed States from which an increasing number of the population depart each year on sight-seeing expeditions. Where is there anything in Europe like the Grand Canyon of Arizona, like the Yellowstone National park, like the Yosemite valley, like Niagara Falls, with its glorious and thrill ing rapids? No other country on the face of the earth has such a variety of resorts by the sea as has the Unit ed States, stretching as they do on the Atlantic from the rockbound and picturesque coast of Maine to the tropic-kissed shores of Florida, and on the Pacific from the Island of Vancouver to the Gulf of California. Not even Europe in its entirety has such a variety of mountain ranges as has this land, filled as they are with lakes and brooks, ideal spots innum erable for recreation and pleasure. In no civilized land is public hunting and fishing so good as it is in numerous sections of the United State .Within their confines, as a matter of fact, are the perfect play grounds of the world. There is much for the people of the west to see in the eastern sections of the country, in cities more marvel lous as to size and development than any which can be found in foreign lands. There is equally much if not more, particularly of the works of nature on larger and grander scales, for the people of the east to see in the western sections of this broad realm. Journeys hither and thither can be accomplished easily by the magnificent railroad systems with which the country abounds, and which are superior in equipment to any other railroads on the universe. From one end of the country to the other are hotels which are far and away beyond the hotels of the old wor-il in the matter of conveniences. And it dpes seem, in view of the sights to be seen in this country, in view of the cheapness and the comfort with which they can be seen as com pared with the cost and discomforts of foreign travel, that more Americana would spend their surplus funds and leisure moments in visiting the won ders of their own land and becoming familiar with its countless Interesting activities, before they pack their bags and baggage and start on a hike for foreign shores. JOURNAL ENTRIES One thing Is certain. The weather Is impervious to criticism.

Families are never considered as be ing especially well-to-do unless they take ice all winter. It's fine to speak kindly of the ab sent', but it's finer to speak kindly with tnose present. Too much effort Is being devoted by many people these daya to make the other fellows do right. If a great crisis always brings out a great man to deal with it. It also brings out a lot of little fellows who do their best to hamper him. J A YHA WKER JOTS A. M. Barker Is the new mayor of Cherryvale. In other words he is now the town Barker, says the Chanute Tribune. This Is the season of the year when it is better to be a pitcher who can twirl a no-hit game than it is to be president, thinks the Quenemo News. This census business reminds us of the oil producers, says the Independ ence Reporter. There isn't a town In the country which has as large a pop ulation as it thought it had. According to the Sedgwick Panta graph man of its acquaintance got so excited over politics the other day that he was talking about Stubbstaff and Waggs before he got through with it. "And then," says Miss Carlson of the Llndsborg News, "it may be possible that the reason some people are not in terested In the laying up of treasures in heaven is because they know they won't go there to enjoy them." The Gove County Record tackled a neighbor, Arthur Crutslnger, for some news. He thought he didn't know any but after scratching his read twice came across with this: "A woman was in the store this morning and said that she had been married 30 years and had agreed with her husband but once. The house caught on fire one day, and they both agreed that they had better get out." Paul Werner, who lives northwest of town, has provided his buggy with lamps. It is a good precaution for driving at night. It enables him to see the road and also gives warning to autoists that he Is on the road. An autoist can see Just as far ahead as his' light shows the road and beyond that all is darkness. He is right onto a buggy before he can sen it and it is the sfnsible thing to have lights on the vehicles that are driven at night. As a matter of safety every buggy should be equipped with lamps and they should be lighted when on the road at night. Troy Chief. A Wichita baker' lost -two loaves of bread in the street. They were run over by a sand wagon and slightly dis figured. The Wichita papers are mak ing a terrible roar because the thrifty baker went back, picked them up, and after brushig them off, sold them to a quick lunch man. It would" seem that the baker is entitled to some praise for his Industry and his keen sight in being able to find a loaf, of bread lost on the streets of Wichita. Arkansas City Traveler. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. There is no such thing as "friendly" rivalry. A dog fears a policeman as much as a boy. No boy has any usg for the parlor at his own house. The Big Head will down an office holder quicker than anything else. Most people engage in Reform work because they expect a. lot they are not entitled to. When you hear a woman say, "All men are alike," that settles it: She is married. When two people have been engag ed a long time, and break it off. It is a sort of divorce. Ever notice that fat women nearly always have the smallest wads of hair, and are not the ones who buy new? If you act indignant when your kin is abused you do not fool any one: The whole -world knows what you think of your kin. When a girl stops in playing the piano, because she has lost her way, her friends think the pause is to give "e It only makes people wonder what on co.. c. in- ...l.. us iu ne auoui Now, when a man says, "I would rather die than tell a lie." Many a woman who won't hold a mouse by the tail will Jerk the lines from the hands of a good driver when there is a runaway. It was decided at a recent meeting of the Lancaster Literary society that children of a widow have much less cause for fear than children of a widower. Last week, the Farmington literary society discussed this question: "In a case of twins, has a doctor a right to double his fee?" It was decided that he .has not. The man who has never heard clas sical music, does not like it. Precise ly as the man who has eaten round steak all his life, thinks it -is better than porterhouse. When a mother says her daughter is stoop-shouldered from carrying so many text books to school, the neigh bors suspect it is due to carrying so much false hair. POINTlilJ l-.ltAtAIHS. From the Chicago News. Be happy and perhaps you'll be good. It is human nature to want to abuse some one occasionally. A woman's idea of an easy mark is from a dollar to 98 cents. Silence sometimes gives consent and sometimes it gives offense. A woman says it's easy to flatter a man, but hard to keep him flattered. A person who uses his brain has an excellent excuse for keeping his face closed. All men think they are manly, but the majority are entitled to another estimate. There seems to be a good deal of human nature In a motorcycle that makes more noise than an automobile. KANSAS COMMENT THE FARMER. Among the causes assigned for the failure of farm products to keep pace with present demands are: Scarcity of farm help and conse quent inability of farmers to obtain the best results from their lands. The drift of young men and women from farms to town, thereby reducing the number of original producers. Nonscientiflc farming. Carelessness in the housing and pro tection of tools and machinery. Lack of "proper care in the selections of seed. Failure to make due return to the soil for what is taken from it. Waste of feed on scrub stock, when less feed would maintain better stock. Neglect to properly prune, spray and care for orchards. Failure to devote sufficient attention to the breeding and care of poultry. But here and there in every locality scientific farmers are settin an ex ample to the neighbors, and the grade of farming is constantly rising. In reality the farmer is receiving only a fair price for what he has to sell, but middlemen are charging too- much for handling and trying to make the public believe the farmer is re sponsible for the prices they charge. Ivor years the farmer has been at the mercy of every trade combination that sold him supplies or handled his product. Now he is prosperous and is not obliged to dump his crops upon the market the next day after harvest to stop interest on some debt, but he can hold or sell as his Judgment dictates, and by means of the telegraph and the telephone and free mail delivery he is in touch with the markets of the world in touch with the thought of the world: The farmer has come into his own. He has been caricatured by cheap city humorists, preyed upon by grass hoppers and money sharks, and mis led by predatory politicians. Now he is able to take care of himself. He is one of the safest, soundest. cleanest elements in our civilization. Leavenworth Times., FREIGHT RATE CASE. In declaring valid the order of the interstate commerce commission which was to the effect that the rate between Mississippi river and Missouri river points, as a part of the through rate on through shipments originating in the Atlantic seaboard territory, the supreme court places in effect reduc tion which has long been asked by Missouri river cities. The rates now charged between Mississippi river and Missouri river points on Atlantic sea board business will come down 9 cents on first class. 7 cents on second class, 5 cents on third class, 3 cents on fourth class and 2 cents on fifth class. This is considerable of a reduction and it will be in effect until the contest over the new rates, now held up under Injunction, Is settled. The winning of the case by the Mis souri river cities will put therri more on an equality with the Mississippi river cities as Jobbing centers, but will it help the southwestern cities? If fair rates are made by the railroads in compliance with the ordered reduction by the interstate commerce commis sion, southwestern cities should have the same reduction from Atlantic sea board points, but it Isn't likelyvthat we will get it. The' reduction on rates to- points In the southwest will not be granted until the case before the com mission regarding rates to and from Gulf points has been determined. The southwest "will never profit by rates asked for by Missouri river cities. Wichita Eagle. FROM OTHER PENS SWIMMING A REQUIREMENT. We are now entered upon the season If drowning accidents. Not that drown ing accidents are confined to any one season of the year, but summer and late spring find people seeking di version, more than at any other time of year, in and upon the water. Numer ous canoe accidents have been chron icled already this season, and it will be something very unusual, not to say unheard of, If more are not added be fore the close of the season. In view of the act that many excellent swimmers have met death by drowning, it would be obvious folly to say that ability to swim is an infallible preventive. Ho must reason oddly, howevere, who would say that ability to swim docs not constitute a very decided advant age to those lovers of the water who possess It. In fact. It will probably be admitted that, if all persons who are able to walk were also able to swim, the annual list of drowning casualties would be but a small fraction of what it now is. In New York state alone the annual record of drownings has been known to pass the thousand mark, and it is said that the percentage of drown ings among persons who never learned to swim is exceedingly large. Man chester Union. OUR LIFESAVERS. The daring deeds of the members of the United States life saving service are unknown except to those in dire ex tremity whom they serve In a calm and business like manner. Statistics of the operations of this class of valiant pub lic servants fail to convey any adequate idea of how efficiently the government is served all along the coasts when lives and ship property are In jeopardy from destructive gales and tempestuous seas. Last year, for example, only 30 per sons were lost out of 8.900 on 1,376 ves sels that met with mishaps on our shores. Millions of dollars' worth f property in ships and cargoes were also saved to owners. In addition, 110 per sons, having no connection with ships, were saved from positions of peril along the coast. This branch of the public service cannot be too well paid, for the men engaged in It are constant ly risking their lives, besides being the means with their signals of assisting thousands of mariners to proceed safe ly on their voyages. These men are modest heroes who merit all the praise that can be bestowed on them. Bos ton Globe. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. No man is as mean as his wife some times thinks he Is. What we call temperament in our friends we call cussediiess in other people. Happiness is a spiritual gift from heaven; pleasure is an earthly com modity you buy. A man who can keep on making love to his wife can starve her to death and she'll never realize it. There are thousands of ways in the world to make money unless you hap pen to try one of them. What a woman can't understand about a bank is why it's so much fussier about her owing it than a mil linery shop is. PASTEPOT AND SHEARS. Was It I. I wonder,- used -to dream of fame? Used to think of some day making quite a name? Used to paint the future bright with rosy First of all the men that make the lead- ing prints. Recoffnizari O.SI fnrpmn.t lit... li,-t,4- Writing stuff that no one else on earth could write, Lordy. what a come down! After all the years Here I am a slave to a pastepot and a bucui: Was it I, I wonder, used to welcome spring f Used to warble blithely as the robins sing? Used to rave of sunsets, used to rant of Used to fill all my rhymes with blossoms, buds and flowers? Soul attuned to beauty, heart with love a elow. Was it I, I wonder, used to ramble so? Lo, the anticlimax! Matter meet for Jeers! Here I am a slave to a pastepot and a snears. Was it I. I wonder? Ah, but life is strange! Strange and cold and hard, to work so sad a change. Watering and weak'ning inspiration' a wine, Substituting caution for the dreams divine. "Hush, you fool'.' says Wisdom, "some thing has been won! Olden days of hardship happily are done." Out upon such preaching! Must the dreams ot years Dwindle down at last to a pastepot and a shears? Dennis A. McCarthy,' In the New York Sun. THE EVENING STORY The Light of the Moon. By Stacy E. Baker. Annie Hartwell, behind the curtains of her chamber, saw the strange young man deliberately pull up her cherished pansies and throw them away. All th's happened in the dim light of the wan ing moon. At breakfast the next morning she stared c ir ously at her mother's guest. H(jt anger was gone. She merely won dered at the mania possessing the youth. Folwell was gt od looking. He did net look like a monomaniac. He seemed unusually well oa'anced. and thorough ly lostel. His gray tryes were frank to a point of positive candor, and Ihey did not belie him. The youthful, we'l proportioned frame of Folwell was cal culated to sup peal to any normal-minded maid. Annie had been quite won to this visitor fron. the city. Even now, afcer having caught Eiim in the very act of vandalism, she mere ly wondered at the motive. Had one of her local admirers attempted this sac rilege he would have been properly grilled at the first opportunity and ban ished. Felix Folwell was an entire stranger to the Hartwells. He had come to them In their dainty Fnirvlew home with letters of introduction from mutual friends in the city, and he had conse quently been accorded all the privileges of an old acquaintance. Ihe brow of Annie wrinkled into a thoughtful frown as she reviewed the events of the several days that this youth had been with them. Reflective 'ly, she eyed the ravished pansy bed. "Do I Intrude?" The girl turned calm eyes to -the ques tioner. "Not at all. I am In somewhat of a ouandary. Perhaps you can assist me, As you see, some p arson, or cn-lmal, has ruthlessly dettroyel my flower bed. I am inclined to think it the former. Ste the footprints. Annie would have lii-ed to see the ex pression on the man's face as he bent above the ruined plot. "Beastly joke," he ejaculated at last. E.nd raised his frank eyes to meet her own. "I'm sure I cant understand. "Nor I," came from the girl, but she wondered greatly that she still felt no anger against this youth. The subject was dropped. Felix Folwell seemed to have no mission in the town. His introduc tory letters intimated that he was a young man of fortune, and that this country trip Griggsville was a small town was advised by a physician who had decreed quiet for the young man. Folwell looked the very antithesis of a man who suffered. AnnieA with suspicion concealed behind the calm of her eyes, noted this. "Did you sleep well last evening?" she probed some time after the pansy dialogue was over. The visitor favored her with a keen, almost analytical glance. "Pretty well," he answered smoothly. "Why?" "Oh, nothing." "that night, by the light of the moon, the girl was again the silent witness of a most peculiar maneuver on the part of the New Yorker. Her eyes were focused on a great lilac bush when it suddenly crashed heaviiii to the ground. Startled, she stared at its destroyer, Folwell, who was now disclosed with a spade in his hand on the other side of the fallen shrub. As she gazed, the guest shouldered his implement and march ed serenely away. Annie Hartwell was angry terribly, furiously angry. The perfect contour of her face was distorted by the mad tumult of suppressed feelings. She felt that she could not wait until morning to tell this man what she thought of him. But in the morning she did nothing of the kind, for the explanation of this man's strange behavior had sud denly come to her, Folwell how sim ple, and how surprising that she had not thought of it sooner was a som nambulist, a sleep walker. She did not attempt to define the feeling of relief that came to her with the thought. Annie, at the breakfast table, cast a compassionate glance across at the visitor. DoubtUls, the youth was on the very verge of a nervous break down. She reproached herself for having been suspicious of him. On this day the youth vanished from the house and did not reappear until evening. Annie had no chance to talk with him. The house seemed strange ly lonely and deserted during the .ab sence of their guest. Folwell at last returned, hot, tired and dusty. He offered no excuse for having absented himself without ex plaining to his hostess that he would not return to lunch and'none was de manded. That night Annie again took up her vigil behind the curtains of her bou doir. Presently, through the murk of the dim night, she discovered her guest strolling leisurely up and down the lawn. Annie Hartwell. prepared for just this, had not disrobed. Hurriedly she tripped out through the French win dow into the night, flinging a gauzy scarf about her as she did so. She joined the youth. Somewhere she had read that sleep walkers were always unconscious of others in their imme diate proximity, and also that it was not safe to wake them. The youth quickly proved the fal lacy of the former bit of Annie's knowledge. "Wh why." he gasped, suddenly turning as the girl joined him. "I didn't hear you. Miss Hart- wen.-- Annie, thrown out of the rut of her carefully-thought-out plan, decided to humor the somnambulist. "There, there," she soothed, much as she would have talked to a baby. "Don't pay any attention, to me at all. Mr. FolweU. Just pretend that I am not nere." "But that la impossible. Annie," de clared the youth, using the girl's given name for the first time.-, "Just go on and do whatever you In tended doing." interrupted the maid hurriedly.- "Something 1 must have brought you out here at this time of night." Folwell gazed curiously at her. "Would you like to know what brought me out here? he questioned, softly. '"Yes." exclaimed the girl, eagerly, prepared to listen to. a confession. "Well, then.r began the man, "you are the cause of it." The girl gasped. "Yes. you," continued Folwell. as If the girl had spoken her protest. "I love you, and on such short acquaint ance I was afraid to tell you until now. "My work here Is completed and successfully. 1 must return to the city tomorrow. You are rich now, little girl. X I can't ask you toTtiar ry me, but I want you to know that I love you." "I don't understand," cried the girl. 'You must be asleep. You would not talk this way If you were not." "I have been on a search for buried treasure. The Hendersons, in whose possession this old manse has been until circumstances compelled them to sell It to your father, were very, very wealthy at one time, but after the civil war, during which the head of the house, a Confederate officer was killed in battle, their star of for tune waned. "I, who am the only remaining de scendant of the Hendersons, have always had an idea that my grand father buried his treasure for safety's sake while he was away. I secured letters from mutual friends and came here in that disgraceful manner but I was right! I have found the money ana securities amounting to almost half a million dollars. They were buried under the lilac tree. Today, during my absence. I examined and in ventoried them. I shall give half of it to your rather for coming here un der false pretenses. For the same reason I shall not ask you to marry me." "Then then." softly spoke a small voice as a flushed face buried itself on Folwell's broad shoulder. "I I must ask you." (Copyrighted 1910 by Associated .Literary press.) A Millionaire Clerk. Charles Ferdinand Hoffman, a clerk in the Wall street offices of Brown Bros., bankers, who died one year ago, leaving an estate of $3,M)0.000. was one of New York s unknown millionaires During his lifetime none of his ac quaintances suspected that he was possessed of so much wealth. His fortune, it developed, will event ually go to his aunt. Mrs. Inez Spag nola of Now Orleans, and his nieces, Miss Margaret Cornelia Hoffman of 134 State street. Brooklyn, and her sister, Carolyne, w-ho lives In New Or leans. It was at the above Brooklyn address that he lived, having a $4 a week room. Even his pretty niece knew nothing of his wealth, and al though she was invited north to take care of him. she was forced to seek employment in a publishing house to pay for her own support. Surrogate Ketcham handed down a- decision de ciding that no other relatives are en titled to his money. i Hoffman had the reputation among his business associates and his ac quaintances in the old fashioned Brooklyn boarding house where he lived of never spending a dollar reck lessly or in pursuit of pleasure. For twenty years he used the South ferry to and from hts office, thus getting to Manhattan for the small sum of 1 cent a day. His death was indirectly due, it was said by a close friend, to the increased price of crossing the East river, for he decided to walk over the Brooklyn bridge in preference to pay ing the additional cent charged dur ing the rush hour. He caught cold when facing the winds one encounters on that structure in early spring and after a short illness died. The career of this man. who made $3,000,000 so quietly, can not be com pared with that of anv other WTall street man. for he was original. His one motto was "Economv."- He was an efficient clerk and even though 72 years old when he died, he continued to hold the position rf head of the for eign credit department of Brown Bros. His knowledge of securities and stocks was astounding, and it is still said in the offices he was associated with for C5 years that he never made a mis take. His first $10,000 he laid up by saving when, in the New Orleans branch of Brown Bros., where he started as office boy. His parents emigrated from Ger many to the south about 1835. and taught him the necessity of saving. Every cent ha earned while in New Orleans he put aside, and twenty years ago, when cotton slumped and his firm gave up its New Orleans offices, he was brought north. He carefully invested his money in railroad stocks and in United States Steel, for he readily saw that the age of steel had arrived, and he who got in on the ground floor would become a millionaire. His wealth then in creased with great rapidity, but he re mained content with his office boy mode of life, remaining indoors even on a Sunday to save' money, and hav ing for his literature the financial re ports he would bring from his office. New York American. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. If ignorance were bliss the world would be much happier. Adam at least couldn't lay claim to being a self-made man. The road to success is embellished with mighty few sign posts. For obvious .reasons the egotist might be termed a human postage stamp. Calling another man a liar may be the truth, but it Isn't always wise to tell the truth. Every cloud has a silver lining. If you don't believe it ask a small boy who is too sick to go to school. Ennui is merely being tired of do ing nothing, and at the same time be ing too tired to do anything else. Why should a man go to the trouble of making a fool of himself -when he can get a woman to do it for him? Many a man who thinks he is a lit tle lower than the angels would be surprised to know .what they think of him. Tell a man -he is no better than he ought to be and he will get mad enough to give the impression that he ought to be Detter tnan ne is. "It is always dangerous to try to get something for nothing," remarked the Wise Guy. -"Yes, yon might-get what you deserve," added the Simple Mug. t rv o VA .,m Kitt -what iner inings may j" J v" 1 n thtnlc Ot reaoiy gets juji- (uai something trite and squelching just after tne argument is ciobcu j opponent has boarded a street car. TV. 4AM.at4ntf feAturA Of thS current number of Collier's is a picture of Eton college boys "seeing Roose velt." It depicts about two hundrea callow youths wearing all kinds ol clothes, but each one surmounted by a plug hat. The picture is distinct, ana one may almost see the expressions 1 1 .v.. e Vi Tr.tnn boys as they viewed the passing man of tha l 1 4ririX nour. xne writer was us i 0 out these brilliant expressions on tho faces of the front row: "Oh, I say, don't. you Know. "Oh. come now. is that he. What? t Pon my word aw er say. What. Wlim a valuable horse is mortally injured, he is put out of his misery with a bullet or an axe. When a man gets in the same condition, he is per mitted to die by Inches. Leave footprints on the sands of time. If you must, but leave your foot prints out on the door-mat wnen approach the narlor carpet. T I V, a rA,ciTi -nrfish ixrai1a In shallow water who stirs up the most mud. A few winter ones. including those union things, were to be seen on tha clothes lines yesterday. And still there are many who think they have complied with the letter of the law when they cast tne crusx 01 their bread upon the waters. with a hook and line attached. Ani again, that It Is more blessed to give than to receive is known to many of us only by hearsay. And. had Alec Selkirk thought to put an aeroplane in his valise when they cast him ashore,- the poet might have embalmed the incident after this fash ion: "I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute, But I think I will beat it away From this diet of bill-goat and fruit. This solitude gives me a pain I would much rather mix w-ith the bunch; So I'll, crank up my Curtiss biplane And flit to Topeka for lunch." DID YOU EVER hear of a man's black wedding suit that wasn't con ventitnal? or a criminal in a country town, who ever ran away from the of ficers without first "breaking?" OH, BURNING THIRST. A person who thought himself w-itty. Said: "It's really a shame and a pity I may suffer for beer But I can't get It here And it's sixty-six miles to K. City." Sunflower Siftings. eto: Gyp Minter was over to Goodland Friday night helping the Goodland or chestra at commencement exercises. Arch L Taylor was over to Oakley on business between trains Tuesday. Colby Free Press. HUMOR OF THE DAY Knicker To what period does that rhnli- belong? Bocker After moving. New York Sun. "I would like to look at some hatpins." 'Veil, ma'am Veyr mllMnon. self-defense, ma'am?" Philadelphia Led ger. Fogg That's a bad cold von have niA man- F.ndprqnn ViiA vrti a.-. a good cold, you Idiot? Boston Transcript. 'Mummy, do foxes hava "No. dear, why?" "Then how do they know where the hounds meet?" The Tat ler. NoPjones How do vou Dronnimi-. ih. word "hiccough" Do you say "hiecoff" or "hiccup"? Ksmith Nyther. old Too. x always use the abbrebriated form Cleveland Leader. VnMt-rv tv. 11... art of expressing Intense feeling in fte" urative speech." "In that case replied Miss Cayenne, "the man who writes base- staV- w asnington, -p l ii i iiiu mum, it ha be gone to Gibraltar in the Jupiter or ta JupTter In the Gibraltar, but it be some? v fuu. runca. "YOU RBV hfl WAM hrllrh atmosphere?" '"Yes Asa boy he Mvef W,1.',?," dl8trloU of PennsylvWl'.au 'Did you hear the hri.i, .v-. cave ax it fie- -i V angina f.ithe:C,tpproacned a railroad crosSi' "Yes. What causerf It?" r,s81n- panton. "I presume the engineer had by the throttle."-8mart Set. d the new student' .."M r:"" "c''talnly, my boy" Wh'V" how far I can go."-BuffalohExpreas. iUBt ...J" folks ued to have a 1,.ti,v. wno was noted for his vinVilli ul toward scorching autoobfliaVil'cUvn's9 visitor to the suburbamte "WhlV lho come of him? Has he ret red tJVjl be" "No," explained the nativl; "bu?1 ce?" wo oovea eiiouirn. from hi i to buy. himself a roadster?" eS ,Bst JFh.e .?rea.cAe'T-Why Is your w proniised won't make him bo to nh,,;SaJ.f. he Is I Cleveland Leader ""erward K.n-2k!SrI!l JTne question 1, ask" whethert"h. Sg'agl th was to buy an auto N yrlSr hc" wktu.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALTUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1910. Mail Orders Filled Boys'Bessemer $5 Two-Pant Suits Sold Hers Only meQj ml urn V jCLOmUNG QX fin x nn7 rn r? r? t Lru la 1033 KANSAS AVENUE. TOPEKA, KANSAS. Let us figure on your lumber bill. No matter what you want, whether it is only a few boards or a complete house bill, our office is always at your disposal, and we will be only too glad to make you an estimate on anything you may want. POLITICALGOSSIP. Three Candidates for State Of fices File Papers. Two Are Candidates for the .Railroad Board. BENTON URGES CAKE. Secretary of State Says Aspir ants Should Not Wait. Tom Cordry Sizes Up Situation in Third District. Three candidates for state office filed their nomination papers with the secretary of state this week as fol lows: R. B. Ward of Republic county, for railroad commissioner; Eli Payne of Emporia, for superintendent of public Instruction, and George Plumb of Emporia, for railroad commission er. It Is expected that a large num ber of the candidates will file their papers this week, as the days of grace are drawing to an end. The books close June 23. Secretary of State Denton said to day speaking about the matter: "I wish that all the1 candidates would file their papers this week who have them ready. If they wait much longer there will be a grand -rush the last few days, and Mr. Morrison will have no time at all to look them over to see if they comply with the law. We do not have to do this, and are not held responsible at all for incorrect papers, but we want to look them over if we have time and see that all of the candidates who spend the time and money to get up these papers get on the ballot. If every one waits to the last minute it will be impossible to do anything but file the papers Just as they are handed In." John T. Dawson, attorney for the railroad board, who some weeks ago routed a Socialist from Boston in de bate, has received another challenge, this time from C. B. Hoffman, the millionaire Socialist of Enterprise. Now Dawson Is not turning his back on any kind of a challenge for debate. He accepted the Hoffman defi and will meet that gentleman on the plat form some time In July. Tom Cordry of Parsons, who Is making a noise like a candidate for state printer, and by the way a noise that is being heard all over the state. is editor of the Parsons Sun, and probably knows as much about the political situation in southeastern Kansas, known as the Big Third, as any man in the state. He writes in regard to the congressional situation m that district as follows: "Parsons is the storm center of the congressional situation with three liv ing, breathing moving candidates for congress. Arthur Cranston is the in surgent Republican candidate, and he hopes to defeat P. P. Campbell for the Republican nomination. If he Is receiving much support it is not vis able to the naked eye, but he labors under the disadvantage of having no newspaper support and he is con-, ducting a bill poster and circular cam paign, and is riding his fences. "Another Parsons candidate is Judge W. P. Talbot, who is a Kentuc ky Democrat, or at least he was a Democrat before he became a prohi bitionist. He became a prohibitionist when he was appointed special assis tant attorney general, and he did for the drug stores and joints of Parsons what St. Patrick did for the snakes in Ireland. Then when he had put the lid on in Parsons and there was a va cancy in the office of Justice of peace. Governor Stubbs appointed him to fill the vacany,t, "But the interesting feature of the situation in the Third district, is the plan of the Democrats to secure the nomination of Mr. Cranston, believ ing that it will be easier to defeat him at the polls than Mr. Campbell. They have agreed that there is to be but one Democrat candidate, and that is to be C. E. Pile, a Parsons lawyer, who a short time ago deserted the pulpit for the law, and then drifted into politics. With Pile as the only Democrat candidate, just enough Democrats are to vote for Pile to nominate him and then the majority of the Democrats are to vote for Cranston." Smith Center. Kan., June 7. The Wagstaff meeting here was an un qualified success and while the local workers in the cause of the Mont gomery county candidate had looked for a big and thoroughly representa tive meeting, their anticipations were exceeded. Of the twenty-five townships in the county, twenty-one were repre sented in the meeting There were delegations of voters present from every town in the county. The crowds began arriving in mid-forenoon, en thusiasm was at a high pitch and by noon the display of Wagstaff buttons on the street indicated that sentiment was all but unanimous in favor of Wagstaff. The meetins was held in the opera house, which is the largest assembly room in the county, seating in the neighborhood of 700 people. It was crowded to capacity with enthusiastic Wagstaff supporters, at least 80 per cent of those present being voters. Wagstaff was greeted with tremendous applause when he was introduced and he made a telling speech, exploiting the extravagance of the Stubbs admin istration in simple language, without attempt at oratory and pointing the way to revision of taxes downward in a convincing and candid way. Governor Bailey followed Mr. Wag staff, making one of the most brilliant speeches of his career as a political speaker. When he finished speaking the crowd was in the throes of an en thusiasm for Republicanism and Wag staff. Two years ago Stubbs carried Smith county over Leland by 200. His lead er was J. D. Mollison,- now one of the active Wagstaff supporters here. Cale Jones and Henry Clark, respectively president and secretary of the Smith County Wagstaff -club, were-also en thusiastic Stubbs men at the 190 8 pri mary. Senator J. T. Reed of this city is another former Stubbs supporter who is now for Wasstaff. "Smith county," says Mr. Jones, ""is just as sure to give Wagstaff a good majority as we are to have a primary election. Two years ago Stubbs car ried Smith Center over L-eland by a vote of two to one. The number of signers to Wagstaff's petitions here is conclusive evidence that Stubbs' Smith county majority will be wiped out right here in Smith Center. "Republicans up this way are tired of disloyalty to the Republican party. We are for President Teft. We be lieve that the success of the Republi- 66 Cauni9tt (Qiumti: Coffee55 Well, that is humiliating. It's hard enough to be a slave but infinitely worse to acknowledge the desperate condition where individual will is gone. However, there is nothing easier if you go about it in the right way. And nothing that will pay bigger dividends in health, comfort and money-making capacity. Perhaps coffee keeps 3rou awake nights, dulls your brain when you need the sharpest edge on your wits possible. It's the steady, clear, original thinker whose judgment is wide awake during business hours, that makes the well-paid doer of valuable work; the chap who forges ahead on his own initiative the successful money-maker. If coffee gets in its deadly work for only one hour of your business day, that may be just the time when opportunity is calling the loudest. But if your judg ment is cloudy from caffeine-poisoning coffee-drinking you may not see the opportunity or not be able to swing things your way. To be in the best trim all the time, drop coffee entirely and use well-made Postum. By "well-made" is meant, as the directions say, boil your Postum at least 15 minutes after boiling begins. Have it dark and rich (it won't hurt you not even a baby and get the fine, snappy flavour and full food valuel Let Postum, in a word, help you quit coffee and start you on the road to every-day comfort, rousing good health and quite possibly a fortune. t There a Reason" for POSTUM Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan. can party means more than the noliti cal triumph of W. R. Stubbs or any other man who assumes to be wiser and cleaner than the majority of his party. Besides all that, we are disgust ed with increases in the burdens of taxation without corresponding bene fits. To cap it all we are for Tom Wagstaff because we consider him a oetter Republican than W. R. Stubbs and better material of which to make a Republican governor." W. A. Holland of Emporia, candidate for railroad commissioner, is making an active canvass of the state. Speak in? of the ajinonnrvmiint L UCUlgC Plumb, also of Emporia, and also can- uiuaic iur raiiroaa commissioner. Was the William Allen White candidate, Mr. Holland declares that that state of af fairs suits him as well as though it was mt-de to order. It will be remem bered that when Mr. White was in the east a few months ago the Emporia Gazette announced Holland as its can didate. When White returned home the Gazette switched to Plumb. Many funny stories at William Allen's ex pense were told at the time over the Holland matter. But now that Holland is satisfied every one else ought to be. The Republicans of "Jefferson county held a well attended meeting at Oska loosa last week under the auspices of the Republican county central commit tee. All the voting precincts in the county were represented and plans for a strong organization to nominate a straight Republican ticket were per fected. 't Ex-Governor W. "J. Bailey of Atch ison was present and -delivered a mas terful addTess. He spoke in high praise of President Taft and. said that it was the duty of Republicans to stand by the national administsation. Mr.- Bailey told of T. A. McNealmaking a Demo, cratic speech 1n Atehison recently, and that McNeal -was masquerading in false colors when he pretended to be a Republican but talked free trade and Democracy. Mr. Bailey told that the only thing the insurgents found fault with Dan Anthony about was the fact that he Was elected to congress as a Republican and stood true to the prin ciples of his party. He said that An thony was an energetic congressman who looked after the interest of his constituents. The Jefferson county Republican committee adopted the following reso lutions strongly endorsing President Taft and his administration: "Recognizing the efficient and faith ful labors of the national administra tion in its efforts to maintain the pros perity of the country and the integrity and well-being of the party by further ing the wise policies of the Republican party as set forth by Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, and dep recaitttng the attempts by a sensational and insurgent press and certain self seeking politicians to subordinate the real interests of the party and the country to their own and factional uses, be it "Resolved, That the Republican cen tral committee of Jefferson county en dorse the national ad-ministration and express their faith in the honest pur pose and ability of President Taft. and commend those who 'by their votes and efforts in congress have faithfully strived and are striving to maintain end promote the things that are of the greatest good to all the people; end that we deplore the efforts being made in some quarters to discredit the fun damental principles and policies of the Republican party, well remembering the result of a similar effort in the past by those then called Populists. "Resolved, That 've pledge ourselves to the principles of the Republican party as laid down in the platform ut terances and faithfully advocated and labored for by President Taft and all those who are working in harmony with him." VOTE STOOD 450 TO 10. Town of Turner Wants to Be Changed to Harriman. Middletown, N. Y. June 7. A petition has been sent to the postoffice de partment at Wash ington asking that ithe name of the village of Turner be changed to Harrlman, in honor of the late E. H. Harriman, whose country placo was nearby. This is in accordance with the decision of a mass meeting Saturday night, which was held to consider the question. The vote, it was announced today, was 450 to 10 in favor of the change. A new $25,000 Erie station has been promised the village by Mrs. Harriman in consideration of the change. AFTER T. R. FOR PRESIDENT. University of Michigan Wants Him at Head of Institution. Detroit, June 7. A private tele gram received from Ann Arbor yester day says George P. Codd. member of the board of regents of the University of Michigan, is in England for the pur pose of asking Theodore Roosevelt to accept the presidency of the University of Michigan.' It is known that the university re gents have been split for months over the question of a president. There has been no chance, apparently, for them to get together except in the se lection of a man of nation-wide fame. I You Business Men Who know the Intrinsic value in clothes as well as those who "leave it to the deal- er" are equally safe in this store where value giving is the one sole important feature.. It can't help but be so where Hart, Schaffner Marx clothes are sold on as close a margin as we sell them. This is caused by the immense volume of business that we do in this store here in Topeka. it is the one logical reason why every clothing buyer should naturally give this store the preference. The next important feature is our great selling of Hart, Shaffner, Marx suits this week at. WE HAVE PRODUCED several totally exclusive suit- styles, which cannot be duplicated anywhere not even in other cities where Hart; Schaffner Marx clothes are sold. These are city styles for city trade and your modern wide-awake YOUNG CHAP can pick them out on sight! If you want to see some clothes that will delight your artistic eye, fit you to perfection and give you all that "class" which you desire, hurry in this week tG)f and ask to be shown our SUIT SPECIALS at p6V Great Stock of Finest Clothes Made A SPECIALTY here is an elaborate showing of Hart, Schaffner Mane very highest grade Suits, such goods as you seldom see in clothing stores ready for. wear. The kind you're glad to get at $30, $36, $40; the choicest fabrics made in the world; made in the most perfect manner, in the best of fashion. We have a big stock, not a few just for show and talk. They will surprise and delight the men who are the custom tailor. Sim?? 'tJ'-'J am&pza fNfrMff-'- 1 if J IMS accustomed pay $54 to $75 to Special for the Man With $15 Here's a particularly strong line of pure worsted, cheviot, serge suits, such as most stores would ask $20 for; we make a feature of them at $15, and have a size for any fig ure of man or young man, and a style for every taste, $15. UNUSUAL values in Hart, Schaffner-& Marx Trousers, at $5; Trousers good enough to wear anywhere, for dress or busi ness; and low price enough to wear for knock about use, outings, golf, tennis; they're val ues that are strong at $7, $8, $8.50, we sell them regularly at $5. Straw Hats Imported English Yachts in the new 'Torpedo" shapes dou ble brims, made of Australian straws will not discolor. They're your best money's worth $3, $4, $5. Panamas. Ecadorion, fine weaves, $5 to $15. Manhattan Shirts You men who are very particular as to the shirts you wear; the fit, color, pattern, finish. You're the men we're ready for. A new lot of Manhattan silk warp flannels and silk-and-linens, $3.50; Russian cords, $2, and other Manhattans from $1.50 up to silks at $6, made especially for you. Shoes for All Our shoes are known only as the best. Expert fitters, highest satisfaction. Men's $5 Oxfords, many being bench made. Our styles are built for comfort. Ladies $5 Oxfords, Pumps, an kle straps are the distinctive sort. REVOLT IN YUCATAN. Serious Uprising of the Maya Indians Is Reported. Tno 7 The most seri ous uprising' with which the Mexican government nas naa w ucm iU time has taken place in the state of v...fo n nH tronns are being rusnea to the disturbed area. In the mean time, reports wnicn nave reatu i i hnon much blood lnuicaic uicio shed and that the insurgents are pre paring for a battle with the govern- ment torces, wmcn soon. The independent newspaper El Dic tamen publishes dispatches from Meri- da, tne capital ui x u., y fAtw Tipnnns were killed uy T,. T,.q;anci rn Sjatiirdav. Fur- i in: juajii illume ther dispatches received here say five thousand or tnese inuia." iu.6. sacked the town of Valladolid, 95 miles lu me auuiiicoofc v. the prinipal government employes, tne chiei oi ponce iuiu wine.-. They seized rifles and pistols and the inhabitants of Valladolid are flee ing to Merida. f Jp lilllJVtH. amv.. left this port with six hundred soldiers aboard, while the gunboat Zaragoza is lving in the harbor ready to take a r aftinnal trooos. who are Lliuuaauu expected soon to arrive from the in terior. Railroad and telegraph communica tion between Merida and the scene ol the trouble is now cut orr. j.eniy miles of the Yucatan rauroaa nave been destroyed by the Indians. It s j v. o mnnv teleCTanh opera tors have been killed or are prisoners. The Jefe politico ana uuuge the criminal court are among the d6The rebels are strongly entrenched in anticipation-f the advance of the federal troops-, Ti 1 n.rtr.ni 1 h c muse of the XI 1. tiiiucc.""" trouble is dissatisfaction -on the part of the Indians over ine ncimu ernment officials regarding lands, but v. nnint of controversy has not been made clear in the reports. It is not thought tnat any Ameriuaua involved. ROBBED PATROLMAN' S HOME. Bold Thief Took Money, Gold Watch and Chain and Revolver. vr -vnir' Tnnp 7. A noliceman's uniform with a shining shield blazoned on the breast of the coat spread out on a chair, carried no fear to a bold thief who visited the home of Gadlia xnw. a notrMmnn n f the JCew York department, last night. He extracted $40 in bills rrom me irousera &uu a. gold watch and chain from the vest onri oven took Kram's service revol- tho noclret. Then he ransacked the whole apartment at his leisure. Finally, just to show hi3 contempt ontHrtritv thp thief removed the shield from the coat and left it on the table with a five-cent piece beside it for Krams use in getting to tne station .house to report the robbery. Boys' Clubs Meet at Rochester. Rochester, N. Y., June 7. Over 100 delegates, representing boys' clubs throughout the United States and Canada, are meeting here this week. In asking the State Journal for base ball scores please call Independent 81&. NOT IN THE CIRCUS TRUST! America's Oldest, Richest Circus! A Modernized, Stupendous Realization of All That Is Great in Tented Exhibitions JOHN ROBINSON'S :G SHOWS 1 opeka, TTTT T TV TIC w Monday, J 111 11 4-Ring Circus 3 Menageries and. Great Wild West all Combined in One Gre atest Show on Earth 1,000 Men and Women 300 Horses 500 Rare Animal Exhibits! 15 Male Riders! 50 Clowns! 50 Gymnasts! 10 Menage Acts! 50 Aerial Artists! 15 Female Riders! 15 Great Feature Acts! 20 Great Ground Acts! 6 GREAT AERIAL THRILLERS 2 Herds of Performing Elephants! -Rhinoceros! Hippopotamus! Complete Wild West! 50 Cow Boys! 30 Cow Girls! 50 Real Blanket Indians! Mexican Horsemen! South American Vaqueros! Russian Cossacks and Japanese Scouts! Company of U. S. Cavary in all Kinds of Fancy Drills! Lowanda Troupe of Brazilian Riders, the World's Great est Horsemen! Warren Travis, Strongest Man Living! Dare Devil Dart Tribe of Singalese Dancers and Magicians! 5300,000 FREE STREET PARADE Two Performances Daily. Doors Open 1 and 8 P. M.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL- TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1910. Vi Siting er- ants Take otic For your especial ben efit we place on sale Wednesday 101 Men's Cravanette Rain coats, your choice This is the great est coat value you ever saw. J 62 2 KANSAS AVZ The Best Service FOR YOU Either Local or LONG DISTANCE Announcement Bissing Conservatory of Music, of fering superior advantages in violin, voice and piano, will remain open dur ing the summer. PETnOWTTSCH BISSING, Director. JiiiU 1745. 706 Kan. Ave. Topeka. SQUALLS MAY COME. Weather Man Says Winds Are Likely for Wednesday. J' m "Moderate southeasterly winds for Topeka today, probably shifting south erly Wednesday. Squalls possible but not certain." The above is the special forecast re ceived for Topeka by the local weather bureau officials. It is not exactly en couraging in tone. Moderate winds are winds that blow from 16 to 25 miles an hour, according to weather bureau estimates. There is hope, ac cording to the weather dopesters, that the weather will be better tomorrow An area of high barometric pressure along the Canadian border and an area of low pressure passing south of us causes the present unsettled weather. At 7 o'clock this morning there was not a glimpse of clear skv in Kansas, as reported by the co-operative ob servers over the state. The barometer at the local office is Jumping from high to low so rapidly that the officials hope the rain will stop by afternoon. The action of the. barometer indicates a local disturbance. The precipitation amovrtits to .38 of an inch and the wind is blowing 12 miles an hour from the northeast. The direction is expect ed to move soon to the southeast. The range of the thermometer has been from 60 to 66 degrees. Following are the honrly temperatures 7 o'clock 60!ll o'clock 56 8 o'clock 60 9 o'clock 68 12 o'clock 57 1 O'clock 67 2 o'clock 56 10 o'clock 56 DEATHS AND FUNERALS. J. S. Decker, aged 67 years, died last night at 627 Fillmore street, of oancer or me stomach. He was an early set tler in Kansas, and resided near Con- cordia in Cloud county, for 35 years. He had lived in Topeka five years prior to nis oeatn. leaves a widow and two children, a son, E. F. Decker, Concordia, and a daughter. Mrs. J. E. Hazen, 1J15 Grand avenue, Topeka. The .funeral will be held under the .direc tion of the Knights of Pythias and in terment will be at Concordia. Mattie -R. Crouch died this morn 'ing at 2425 Polk street at 8:15 o'clock. The funeral announcements will be made later. Harry Jones, aged 32 years, died this morning at 506 West Seventh street. The funeral, which will be hel dfrom the resideence Wednesday, .will be private. M ch 3 8 life. GAME OfJPOLITICS Contractor Ritchie Declares War on City Officials. Says Tandy Is Playing Hard in the Limelight. "FULTON IS NO GOOD. Ritchie Claims City Engineer Is Almost Worthless. raving May Be Stopped in To peka for Some Time. Declaring that Commissioner Tandy was playing to the grandstand, that he was playing a- beautiful game of poli tics, and that City Engineer Fulton was no more fitted for the office of city engineer than a newspaper reporter and would eventually lose the city thousands of dollars, John Ritchie, pav ing contractor, made a grand march through the city hall this morning, leaving an angry mob of city officials in his path. It was the boldest stand against the city commissioners ever taken by a private citizen and Contractor Ritchie not only distributed his sentiments freely among the city hall officials but ne tola, tne commissioners lace to face what ideas he had on the question. "I am getting tired of this political game," said Mr. Ritchie. "Tandy is using politics around town with the paving and sidewalk contractors as the goats. He Is bringing up hardships against us with no other reason than that of making a record a city com missloner." In connection with his sentiments on the official position held by W. F. Ful ton, city engineer, Mr. Ritchie was rich with his adjectives and his descriptive phrases. Takes Shot at Fulton. "He doesn't know what he is doing about half the time. He is no more fitted for that job than you are. (He was talking to the reporter who doas know the difference between a curb and a gutter, but that is about all.) Just mark my word this man Fulton will lose the city thousands of dollars and the sooner the people find it out the better." Mr. Ritchie was on the war path for sure. As soon as he had told those in the first lobby what he thought about Tandy and Fulton he ascended the stairs and met Mr. Tandy coming down. The sight of the big "Abraham Lincoln of the city commission" didn't dampen his spirits In the least. Beck oning the commissioner into his office he opened fire with all batteries and for some time the two men exchanged the time of the day, mutual courtesies and a few other little business matters matters that could not be placed In print. The whole trouble originated when Commissioner Tandy introduced through the city commission a reso lution holding back from-the paving contractors the sum of $10 a day for all the time since the time of their contracts expired. Paving Contractors Ritchie and Gilflllan were required to forfeit $10 a day since the first of January and the first of December respectively. Sidewalk Contractor fiillmore was fined $5 a day since January 1. Big Sum Against JJitchle. Mr. Ritchie signed a contract with the city agreeing to finish his work by January 1, or he would pay the above mentioned forfeit. Up to date Ritchie would have to forfeit $1,510. He has seven blocks of paving to fin ish which will take about two months thus meaning about $2,500 for him. This clause has always been in the contracts but it has never meant any thing, said Mr. Ritchie in explana tion. "We would never make such a low bid if we had figured on that. We had the worst weather in years last year and we could not possibly finish the work on time. Besides labor was scarce, and we met all kinds of set backs. The city does not offer any premium for getting the work cut earlier than stated by the contract and I know that they cannot collect anything as a forfeit. But they have held up our estimates and our pay ments and what can we do? They have us where we can do nothing but grin and bear it." Then comes Ritchie with the state ment that Commissioner Tandy is playing politics. Before the election Tandy came to me one day and said that he would see that Fulton did not hold up these estimate on us, said Ritchie. He told me this on the street. Since Jhen he has been elected to office and he turns right around and does the thing himself just a game of politics. I can see through it all now." Tandy Answers Back. In answer to this Mr. Tandy said: "I saw Ritchie and told him that if Fulton was holding up the estimates without orders from the mayor and council I would see to it that it was not done. I never gave any promises of any kind. Ritchie signed the con tract knowing that this forfeit was there and he will have to take the consequences. We are here to carry out tne contracts ana if the contrac tore leave the streets open all fall and winter and block traffic they will have to suffer for it. We are not going to have any more of this kind of business In Topeka. "If these contractors are going to talk like this I will get into the game. threatened Mr. Tandy. "I will get into it good and hard and they will sweat blood. I am tired of this slack work a few more statements like this and things will pick up." City Engineer Fulton was not stir prised at the statement made bv Con tractor John Ritchie. "Ever since I have been In office have checked up these fellows and kept them right up to date in every thing and they are reeling the eftects, said Mr. Fulton. "In past years fhey have been allowed to do almost as they please and when we tighten the screws they holler." "I WiU Stop Work" Ritchie. Contractor Ritchie, who still has seven blocks of pavement to finish, de clared this morning that he was not going to finish them. "If we are not going to get paid for our work there is no use to work." he said. "If I have to lose more money on this paving and I have lost about $1,500 up to date I will just throw up the work altogether. They haven't allowed me a thing for last month. They won't come out and inspect my work and still they think that I am going to keep on laying pavement. They will be mistaken." It Is hard to tell what this war will develop into. It is very probable that Ritchie will refuse to continue his work unless paid for It, the other con tractors will follow suit and a sojourn in the courts will follow. Topeka is having a hard time trying to lay pavements. WILL BE A CONFERENCE Motion to Accept Senate Amendments to Railroad Bill Defeated. Washington, June 7. There was a further clearing of the railway situa tion here today. Representatives or the western roads who yesterday reached art agreement with President Taft whereby they are to withdraw their increased freight rates ana await the operation of the new railway law, left for their homes. Presidents Brown of the New York Central and McCrea of the Pennsyl vania railway, representing the east ern and central lines, went into a con ference this afternoon with President Taft to ratify, it is believed, the agree ment with the western roads outlined yesterday. President Taft's message to con gress recommending the modification of the railroad bill so as to conform with the administration's agreement with the railroads was read in the house soon after that body convened. Chairman Mann, of the interstate commerce commission called up the railroad bill after the reading of the message had been concluded and at tempted to obtain unanimous consent to send the measure to conference. "I object," shouted Mr. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, one of the Republican in surgents, who is one of those who fa- vor the acceptance by the house of the senate amendments. A storm of applause from the Democratic side. followed Mr. Lenroot's action. To facilitate action on the measure a motion was made to dispense with th readinir of the senate amendments. hut this also was objected to and Speaker Cannon ordered the reading of the bill. Champ Clark, the Democratic leader in the house, supported the Lenroot motion, declaring taht while he Old not approve of the senate bill, he was susDicious of conference reports arid did not want to take any chances on the railroad bill. The Lenroot motion to accept the senate bill was defeated. FORMAL CHARGES MADE. Against Senator Lorlmer in the United States Seante. Washington, June 7. Formal charges against Senator William Lorimer of II linois, were laid before the senate this afternoon by his colleague, Senator CuMom. The proceeding was the pre sentation of a memorial by Clifford W. Barnes of Chicago, president of the II linois legislative league, embodying the charges of bribery of members of the Illinois legislature. The memorial was read only in part and was referred without comment to the committee on privileges and elections. Senator Culloni offered the memorial without comment and the reading was begun by the clerk. It had proceeded but a few minutes when Senator Borah entered the chamber and inquired what was being read. Senator Cullom ex plained and then by "his consent the matter was referred without further reading. There were few people in the senate chamber or in tihe galleries, in larked contrast with the scenes of intense excitement when Senator Lori mer made his bitter speech ten days ago. He was not present. The Barnes memorial is a long aocu ment, embodying the confessions of White and Holstlaw that they were tribed to vote for Lorimer: the bribery indictment against Lee O'Neil Browne and otherwise summarizes the allega tions heretofore published as affectfing Lorimer s election. This memorial now places formal charges before the committee and basis of action which it has not had before. AV'on't Talk About It. Chicago, June 7. Senator Lorimer, in his offices in tfhe new LaSalle Street bank, read the Washington despatches elating to the charges. Then he ask cd: 'What would you have me say?" 'Just what you think." was the re ply- Well, this is my answer now and next time: 'I will not discuss the subject mat ter, the manner in which it is brought up or handled or tihe persons who have a. hand in it. I am very busy banking. Good afternoon." STAMEY TRIAL STARTS Liveryman Charged With Arson Faces Jury Today. The trial of G-. V. Stamey, former livery man and hack driver but for many moons an inmate of the county jail in default of bail, started in the district court today. Mia first trial will be on the charge of arson in the burning of the rented house of Walter Bates on Laurel street in Au burndale where he had housed Mrs. D. E. Evans who died while awaiting trial in the county jail. Immediately following the arson case, should he not plead guilty, he will be tried for attempting to defraud insurance companies Dy ourning up oia furniture, claiming it was the same as insured. Much of the furniture insured by Stamey while he and Mrs. Evans lived on Lincoln street and which was claimed to have been burned in the fire In Auburn- dale has been found in storage in the barns of his former landlords whom he persuaded to let him have space. This household furniture is Identified by agents as the goods turned in as having been destroyed. One particular article is a phonograph, well known to neighbors, on which it is claimed Stamey collected insurance in the burning of his Tenth avenue barn and then insured again. WHITE FLYER WRECKED. New York, June 7. After a flight that lasted a little over six minutes Clifford B. Harmon wrecked his big white flyer at Hempstead Plains last evening. Mr. Harmon had Just com pleted two rounds of the course and had started on the third lap when his machine dipped several feet. He quick ly pointed it upward and attempted to rise, but the engine stopped at a height of about 15 feet and the ma chine landed with a jolt that splin tered the propeller into eight or ten pieces and smashed the skids. The covering on the upper plane was badly torn and several ribs were broken. Mr. Harmon escaped without injury. He had traveled about three miles and had reached an altitude of from 75 to 100 feet. Sole agents for the Ash Grove Super fine Portland Cement, Chicago Lumber Co., 3rd and Jackson streets. And then it rained. The state suDreme court is in ses sion. And the weather man holds out no hope! The restaurants in Toneka are crowd ed despite the weather. The decorations on the trolley poles are being wilted today. Tou can reach your friends at any time on the Independent Phone. T. F. Doran is sick with stomach trouble at his home, 125 Western ave nue. The thatched roof of the summer house at Vinewood is sadly in need of repairs. Cattlemen sav that the grass is so short in the pastures that cattle are in bad condition. Naoma Rebeka. staff No. 95 will meet at the K. and L. of S. Hall Wed nesday for drill. Over a thousand people visited the airship tent to see the flying machine Monday. Over 1,600 visited the tent Saturday. The banks did not close at noon to day for the aviation meet, on account of the bad weather. They will close tomorrow. There are three ways to go to the aviation field, according to the directors of the association on foot. In. a buggy or in an auto.. If the weather is favorable tomor row- the "bird men" will do their "stunts" on the aviation field from 2 to 6 o'clock. Liee" Woolev. center fielder for the Coolevsox. has been slightly ill for several days, but is likely to get back into the game any day. Mrs. Glenn Bardslev of Salt Lake City, Utah, formerly- Miss Nettie Rob inson of this city, is the guest ot Mr. and Mrs. Sanders. 1220 Van Buren street. A Topeka woman who is fond of wild birds but who keens a cat which is also fond of them has solved the problem or saving the birds, by putting a bell on the cat. There was no closing of stores or offices this afternoon on account of the calline off of the flying machine meet but it is probable that tney win ciose on another day. There was many a long face this morning on account of the precipita tion. Especially were the youngsters disappointed on. account or tne post ponement of the aviation meet. A false fire alarm was turned in last evening from Seventh and Jackson streets. The fire companies from near by engine houses had good exercise and enjoyed the ride but the only fire was in the fire engfnes. The "Ask Me" buttons are worn by members of the Commercial club who wish to give information in connection with the city. Hiram, and not where it is possible to obtain a delicious bot tle of blue ribbon. All of the half holidays which have been declared over the city for today have been postponed until tomorrow. If tomorrow is a good day and it will be the biggest crowd in years will gather on the Aviation field. Chief of Police Jenkins has placed an extra force of policemen on duty for Merchants week. These men have orders, however, not to arrest the vis itors. Merchants have everything in Topeka this weej-even the. cops. A number ef of town motor cyclists have entered the lists for the motor-bike races -at the fair grounds tomorrow' and the next day. The races should be the best ever held in the city and will draw a big crowd. The difference between the racing of automobiles, race horses and flying machines is best illustrated by the fact, that the Curtiss machine stood all day over the field in the drizzling rain and not a canvas protection of any kind was placed over it. For the information of the visitors who might wish to visit the college it might be stated that Washburn will be wide open to visitors this week and the college authorities will be pleased to accompany the out of town people over the college grounds. Aviator Mars states that he will make one of his flights late in the even ing for the purpose of giving the Santa Fe employes of the shops a chance to see him in action. This is a courtesy that should be appreciated by the shop men. For the information of those who may have their doubts it might be mentioned that this is June and the first month in summer. It seems to be the fashion now for summer to recline in the lap of 'winter and vice versa. Mother Nature should teach her chil dren better manners. The flight of the airships was not postponed today because the aviators could not propel their machines in the air, because they could have made the trip overhead in spite of the rain. It was postponed because it was not thought best that the spectators should be seated in the ram. Superintendent Purcell of the Santa Fe shops has made a number of minor cuts in the shops in order to cut down the running expenses as much as pos sible. This is always customary at this time of year and does not mean anything unusual. Railroad business always falls off. during the summer months. With all of their pay-as-you-enter cars in service together with the other cars the street railway company is giving the people good service during Merchants week. These are the things that make the company friends. Now for the Gage park extension. With three of the corners at Fifth and Kansas avenue roped off for the safety of pedestrians, there ie not very much left on this thoroughfare. The New England building, the Rigby building and the federal building have all been using the sidewalk for con struction space. Topeka has been full of students from Kansas university for the last few days. Students living in the western part of the state along the lines of the Rock Island find it neces sary to come to this city to take this road. Then there are a large num ber of fair co-eds who are doing their summer trading in the city before they leave for home. Today Is the first class day of the summer school at Washburn college. The college authorities report a big enrollment for the work during the hot months. A number of the classes will be held out under the trees dur ing the warmer weather. The sum mer students are preparing a "barn storm", college baseball team. The police department has sold its motorcycle and several people over the city are wondering why. Mayor Billard says the bike was a nuisance and cost too much money for opera tion. But what will be used to make speed maniac arrests? A cop can't swear that an automobile is running 30 miles an hour when he hasn't a speedometer attachment. J. P. Curry and R. J. McDonnell of the PauCola company of Chicago, are In the city with a crew of men in troducing the famous drink PauCola which is being so largely advertised In all the papers, billboards and maga zines from coast to coast. This time next w:eek the people of Topeka will be amusing themselves withe fascin ating Jig-saw puzzle which is given away at all soda fountains with each drink. "Good for two beers at any bar in Topeka, Kan.," reads a check which was distributed today at the registra tion room in the Commerce building where the merchants of the state con gregated. On the other side of the check was this statement: "All saloon keepers in the city will honor this check and charge to the account of the Road Supply and Metal company." These checks were eagerly clutched by visitors, who inquired as to the whereabouts of the saloons! It was a clever bit of advertising, for there are no saloons. KELLY KELLY SUED. Grant Township Wants Damages for Sale of Bonds. A case very similar to that which threw Shawnee county into a turbulent state a year ago in regard to the sale or Missouri Pacific bonds by the firm of Kelly Kelly, brokers, comes from Grant to wnship. Reno county, in a dam age suit brought in the Shawnee dis trict court against Kelly Kelly this afternoon for damages to the amount of $10,200. Grant township had stock valued at $34,000. Thinking, like the Shawnee commissioners did, that the stock was practically worthless the trustees con tracted with H. B. and G. C. Kelly to sell for them at 20 cents on the dollar with one-half of any amount above that figure the same arrangement which was made here. Kelly Kelly sold the block of stock the same as here for 40 cents, giving the trustees a total of 30 cents on the dollar. The man. Jordan, who figured in the sale of Shawnee's bonds also is men tioned in this case as the man Kelly Kelly connived with. Grant town ship learned, as was learned in Topeka, that the bonds of the Kansas. Colorado Pacific railroad as the Missouri Pa cific auxiliary is technically known, were worth and were registered at 60 cen.ts at the time the sale was made. SHERIFF HAS HIM. Browne Must Be Tried in State Courts ot Illinois. Chicago, June 7. Representative Lee O'Neil Browne, Democratic leader accused of bribing fellow legislators in the election of United States Senator Lorimer, Republican, was today re fused freedom on a state writ of ha beas corpus. Judge Kickham Scan Ian denied a rlea that only a federal tribunal has power to try such a case. Judge Scanlan remanded Browne to the custody of Deputy Sheriff Peters. Mr. Hanecy filed a petition for an ap peal of the decision before Judge Scan lan left the bench after readins his decision. While Mr. Hanecy was arguing on his plea for an appeal of Judge Scan lan's decision. Judge McSurely issued a capias for Browne. Judge McSurely later ordered the capias served and Browne's bonds for feited. CLAIMS SWOPE ESTATE. w Va. Man Has Deeded the Property to a Trust Company. Kansas City, Mo., June 7. Elmer C. Swope of Martlnsburg. W. Va., today laid formal claim to the estate of the late Colonel Thomas H. Swope, except that portion of the estate bequeathed by Colonel Swope to Frances Swope Hyde, wife of Dr. B. C. Hyde. Elmer Swooe's claim was set forth in an answer to par tition suit filed by Mrs. Margaret Swope in the circuit court at Independence, Mo. The answer declares that all the estate not owned by Mrs. Hyde Is owned by the Kansas City Trust company. The Kansas City Trust company claims title to the property through a deed filed by Elmer Swope. STUBBS IN MARSHALL Marysville, Kan., June 7. Governor Stubbs addressed two meetings Mon day. The first was at Waterville in the afternoon and the other at Marysville last night. The reception in each place left no doubt in the governor's mind as to his growing strength in Marshall county. Two years ago this county gave Mr. Leland a majority of 449 votes. It is looked upon as Representa tive Calderhead's stronghold, as it is here that the present representative from the Fifth district has lived for the greater part of his life. KANSAS POSTMASTERS. DaVe Xaill of Herington and Knapp of Clyde Named. Sid Washington, D. C, June 7. Late this afternoon the president sent to the senate the following Kansas post master nominations: Sydney M. Knapp, Clyde; Jos. A. Schmitt, Ellsworth; Frank Debart, Glenn Elder; David W. Naill, Hering ton; Chas. B. Spencer, Iola; Wm. M. Jones, Lyons; Thos. A. Dilley, Sterling; Floyd E. Young, Stockton; Jas. D. Smith, West Mineral; Jas. R. Young, Oakley. HEW SPECIAL RULE. Washington, June 7. The new rules committee of the house, by a strict party vote of six to three today re ported a special rule to govern the postal savings bank bill in the house. The rule provides for the cutting off of all amendments for eight hours of general debate and for permission to offer one substitute for the entire bill. NO BALL GAME. Wichita. Kan.. June 7. Western: peka-Wichita game postponed; grounds. To wet Mobbett May Be Insane. Samuel Lafayette Mobbett, a farmer of family from near Wakarusa was brought to Topeka today for trial in the probate court for his sanity. The lunacy com plaint was signed by his brother, T. J. Mobbett who demanded a trial by jury instead of a commission, a rather unusual request although provided by law if so desired. At the noon adjournment of court the case was continued until a later date. Wednesday Steel fish rods 95c ea.; 22 shorts 10c box. Bauman, 215 Kan. ave. I Cures NK AbsolutelyPerfectly ASK FOR PROOFS Address NEAL INSTITUTE OF KANSAS DR. H. H. KEITH, Medical Director 1300 West Tenth Street, Topeka Bank Contract Given Word of mouth from man to man is building ''Neal Cure" Institutes from Ocean to Ocean. Today it is your privilege to place in the hands of some dear, unfortunate friend, clearly and in a forceful way, the benefits awaiting him. It's Up to You. We'll Do Our Part. 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