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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-04-21

read and the names OF the delegates.
Most of the addresses were by we'll
known philanthropis's or recognized
specialists. One Of the strongest is
written by Mrs. Helen Gardiner on a
subject Of vital Importance to human
ity, Gan Heredity be Modified ~ While
Mrs. Gardiner believes that heridity is
as eternal as the hills, che claims that
it is equally true that the conditions
under which we develop or restrict our
inherited tendencies will determine
largely whether heredity shall be our
"slave-driver or our companion in the
race for life and liberty, and whether
we shall pass on to our children better
or worse, a weakened or a strengthened
inheritance 1t doubles the RESPONSE.
bilities OF parents to realizs that they
are responsible for the physical. mental
and moral quality of their children and
their chances for life; to know that while
inheritance means much, environment
means equally as much.
1. is impossible within the limits OF
critical notice to advert to all the help
full essays in this report. Dietetics,
Parents and the Schools, Mistakes Of
Mothers, Nurse Maids, The Don't Worry
Movement, Mothers OF Blind and Deaf
Children, etc, are some Of the subjects
treated. The book is treas ure to those
interested in the life and needs of child
hood and the responsibility Of mother
hood. The fourth congress will be held
in Des Moines May 81 to %, and we
hope the generous offer OF the citizens
OF that city TO entertain one thousand
delegates free of charge will crowd The
city beyond it's limits
Industrial exhibits" and "Home
science receptions" are becoming great
favorites with women's clubs. Each
take the form OF competitive exhibit
ion of home manufactures or domestic
accomplishments. At a home science
reception to be held in Chicago this
spring, cooks. mattresses. maids and
may try their skill and
prizes will be awarded to them and to
the servants who can present certificates
Of longest service. Prizes will be given
for the best bread, cake. salad and pud-
ding. for the bsst laundry work and for
mendipg. The good articles will be
sold and the proceeds divided between
the competitor and the committee. The
idea of the exhibit is to establish per-
manent organization for an annual home
science exhibit in Chicago after that
which has been recently established in
London.
What most impresses me as l mingle
81 L. Ill Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
Santa Fe Engineers Decide ON
a Startling Move.
Will Build a Line to the Edge
of the Grand Canon.
SCENERY is SUBLIME.
Trains Will Run to the Brink
of the Great Cleft.
Rampant to Be Built as a Meas
ure of Safety.

Santa F'e engineers have decided on a
move which holds a unique place among
the feats of modern railroad engineer
ing It is the construction of railroad
line to the every edge of the Grand
Canon of the Colorado river in Arizona.
The proposition is rather a dizzy one
but careful examination has satisfied
Chief Engineer Dun and his assistants
that there is no danger connected with
the move.
In consequence, construction has been
ordered on the Santa Fe & Grand
Canon railroad from Anita Junction to
the head of Bright Angel Trail, where
The observation train will pause on the
rim of the 1,000-foot cleft in the earth.
\ rampant will be built to insure the
safety of trains. The claim is made
that the view of vari-colored rock, the
immensely of the distances and the
seemingly perilous poise of the train
will be an attraction unequaled any
where for sublin1ity on the globe.
The twenty miles to the rim of the
canon viii be completed by May Is.
Gangs OF graders have already been put
to work and during the winter a COM
Portable, if temporary, hotel has been
quilt at Bright Angel Trail, accommo-
dating thirty or thirty-five people.
From Bright Angel Trail lead Berry
and Hance trails down the sides of the
canons to the Colorado river. The de-
scent of these narrow pathways can
safely be made on burros.
The new line will be known as the
Santa F'e & Grand Canon. At present
a branch line Of the Santa Fe is in oper-
alton from Williams to Anita, Junction,
forty-seven miles, Stages heretofore
have been taken at Anita Junction for
the canon. Some years ago the entire
"trip from Flagstaff, Ariz., to the canon
tad to be made by stage coach.
The Santa FEES purpose in construct
ing a line with such a novel terminus
is to induce excursions to the Grand
Canon of the Colorado from both east
and west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27

CHIEF engineer and general manager of
the Manila & Dagupan railway. He is
instructed to open up the road to public
traffic until such time as the railroad
company may consent to receive and
operate the road. Lieutenant Charles
F. Parker, Second artillery, has been
appointed treasurer and disbursing Off
Ger, and Lieutenant John J. Haisch, gen.
Robert w. MearnS, Twentieth infantry.
general passenger agent.
THE change of management of the
railroad will place it on a basis to han
die the passenger and freight traffic
that is daily increasing as the country
is becoming more and more settled and
the different branches of business inter-
rupted by the instruction are being re-
sumed. The necessity of having an adj
ditional force to put the road on the
present basis became apparent to the
authorities, and it will be run the same
as if in the charge of the railroad COM
pany.
Lieutenant Haisch, who has so sue
ceSSfully handled the road since it was
first taken in charge by the military
authorities has illustrated his ability
in handling freight by the immense
amount of stores that he has handled
with limited facilities. His appoint
ment as general freight agent meets
with approval on all sides. He has al
ways been hard worker and the cour-
tesies he has always shown during his
connection with the road have made
him popular with both the public and
military
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
The Eminent kidney specialist, Disc,

Just as sure as the break of dawn
means another day, so does pain in the
back indicate kidney trouble.
When your kidneys become weak and
are unable to throw off the waste in the
blood, they clog up with poisonous mat
ter, break down, cell by cell, and the
PARTICLES pass away in the urine. Then
the albumen, which makes rich, red
blood, leaks out, your system breaks
down and you have what is known TO
all mankind as Bright's Disease.
Bright's Disease is taking away more
lives today than any other known all
ment, excepting possibly consumption;
end yet with a little attention you may
prevent such a calamity as Bright's
Disease Detailing you.
Are you fortified with the necessary
knowledge about Bright's Disease? Do
you know how to find out if there is
anything the matter with your kid
neys? Here is a simple but sure test:
In the morning, on arising, take of
your urine about four ounces and put it
in a glass bottle; let it stand about
twenty-four hours, and if, on examina-
ton, you find any settling or sediment,
if it is cloudy, or if small particles float
in it, then you may be assured that ma
ture has warned you, and that your kid
neys need attention.
The mild and immediate effect of the
famous new discovery, Swamp-Root, is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
OPEN MAXWELL LAND GRANT
Big Tract In Colorado Will Be Given
Railroad Facilities.

Denver, March 27.-An important
branch line of the Colorado & Southern
railway will be built through the Max
well land grant, opening up rich land
that at the present can only be reach
has been given possession of the grant
effect a plan that will dispose of the
thousands of fertile acres for settlement
and has demanded a railroad in order
to accomplish it.
General Superintendent Dyer of the
Colorado & Southern has returned from
inspection of surveyed route
through the grant in Las Animas coun-
ty and Northern New Mexico. The sur
vey was made under the direction of
Chief Engineer Cowan and provides for
easy grades and some thirty miles of
road. At present the grant is entered
by horse from Trinidad
The railroad will be the first big i'm
provement of the many contemplated
by the owners. It's completion will be
followed by the settling of new lands
under the terms offered by the COM
pany at it's office in Trinidad.
General superintendent yers' inSpec-
ton means that construction will begin
early this spring. In Trinidad he was
in conference with the company's Off
GERS and came to Denver with Division
Superintendent Parker of the Santa Fe
and other Santa F'e officials. AS the
latter road has an interest in the grant,
bounding it on one side, it is thought
it is also interested in the construction
of the branch. To what extent is not
known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
A FEW FACTS.
ABOUT the New Catarrh Cure.


The new Catarrh Cure is a new de-
parture in so. called catarrh cures, be-
cause it actually cures. and is not sim
ply a temporary relief.
The new Catarrh Cure is not salye,
ointment, powder nor liquid, but a pleas
ant tasting tablet containing the best
specifics for catarrh in a concentrated,
convenient form.
The old style of eatarrh salves and
oiltments are greasy. dirty and incon-
vela.ent at the best; the new prepara-
tion being in tablet form is always clean
and convenient.
The new Catarrh Cure is superior to
Catarrh powders because it is a motor
ious fact that many Catarrh powders
contain cocaine.
The new Catarrh Cure is called
STARTS Catarrh Tablets, a wholesome
combination of blood root, beachwood
tar, guaiacol and other antiseptics, and
cures by its action upon the blood and
mucous membrane, the only rational
treatment for catarrhal trouble.
You do not have to draw upon your
imagination to discover whether you are
getting benefit from Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets; improvements and relief are
apparent from the first tablet taken
All druggists sell and recommend
them. They cost but so cents for full
sized packages, and any catarrh suf-
ferer who has wasted time and money
on sprays. salves and powders will ap-
preciate to the full the merit of Stuart's
Catarrh Tablets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
SIX MILES ONLY REMAIN.
California Line of the Santa Fe Rap
idlv Nearing COMPLETION.

But six miles of track remain to be
iaiG on the Stockton and Point Rich
mcnd extension of the Santa F'e Valley
railroad With all the track laid by the
end of this month, most of April will be
required in leveling it and putting the
line into safe condition for the running
Of trains. So not until the last week in
April, or on May 1 at the very latest
Will Santa F'e trains make their en-
trance into San Francisco by the way
of Point Richmond and a freight and
passenger ferry system.
Along the extension west from Stock
ton as we'll as at other points on its
system throughout the west, the Santa
Fe is planting trees under the advice
and direction of the division of forestry
a Washington. The object is to raise
tie and pole timber for the company s
use 1t was about Is years ago that
the company first planted some 1900
acres with catalpa sprigs. The cost
was $3.50, co., In about eight years more
it is estimated that this tract Of land
will have produced $$2,100000 worth of
posts, ties and poles
The high price of lumber material for
railroads is SAID to be becoming a very
serious matter. For years past the an
needs of railroads has been over 1,0GO, 600
acres The price will. therefore, con-
tInue to increase rather than diminish
unless the roads begin to raise timber
for their own use. Considerations of
this nature have caused the Santa Fe
10 establish a forestry department of it's
own. In the marsh lands west of Stock
ton the Santa F'e is planting yellow will
low trees
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
POWELL IS PERSISTENT.
o. r. T. Chairman Still After Colorado
and Southern.

Denver, March 27-The Colorado &
Southern company has received notice
that a committee composed of dis
tinguished persons connected with the
American Federation of Labor will soon
come to Denver to confer with the Off
Gals relative to an adjustment of the
differences between the company and
Chief Powell of the telegraphers' as
sociation.
At a session of the executive council
of the American Federation at Wash
ington yesterday, President Gompers
and Vice President Max Morris were
appointed a committee to visit Denver
and take up the matter.
The situation is somewhat curious. So
far as has been learned no grievance
has been presented by any of the OPP
orators on the Colorado & Southern for
a year or more. Yet Powell, the presi-
dent of the order, keeps up a complaint.
A few months ago Powell visited Den
yer and talked good deal and then
issued a circular asking every agent
in the United States and Canada, in
terested in railway business, to boycott
the Colorado & Southern. So far as can
be aScertained, not a pound of freight
or a passenger has been diverted from
the road on account of it. At the office
of the general superintendent the state
ment is made that no complaints about
wages have been made by any of the
operators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
AN OLD SETTLER.
Major Hicks Went to Lyon County
In '56-Was With Fremont.

[From the Emporia Gazette.1
Lyon county has a citizen with rec
ord to be proud of. He is Major Hicks,
4 well known character of Americas.
He was with John c. Fremont explor-
ing party in 1874, which was sent out
Ly congress to locate a trail to the Pa
cifc. He was with Fremont at Pixies
Peak. over considerable of the western
territories and up into British Column
ria. He was all through the Mexican
war in 1916 and 1S47, and was a major in
command of the troops. In 1850 he sailed
for Panama. and crossed the isthmus
where he again set sail for Cuba and
landed at Havana.
He not only bears this distinction, but
he is one of the Oldest settlers in Lyon
county, having settled on the Neosho
river about three miles northwest of
where Emporia is now located, in
March, 1856, and has been a continuous
resident OF the county ever since, a per-
iod of forty-four years. He is still hale
and hearty, and, although in his S0th
-;ear. he does all his own work, keeping
his place fixed up in good shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27

its wonderful cures of the most dis1
tressing cases.
Swamp Root is the discovery of the
eminent kidney specialist and is snot
recommended for all diseases, but if
you have kidney, bladder or uric acid
troubles, or diseases depending upon
these disorders, you will find Swamp
Root just the remedy you need.
SwaInp-Root is used in the leading
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Swamp-Root will set your while sys-
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peka Daily State Journal by which
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their names and addresses to DR.. XII
lner & Co., Binghamton, N. z, will be
sent absolutely free, by mail, a. samples
bottle Of Swamp-Root. Also a book of
value treating of all kinds of kidney
diseases and containing some of the
thousands of testimonial letters re-
ceived from sufferers cured.
If you are already convinced that
Swamp-Root is what you need you can
purchase the regular fifty-cent and
one-dollar size bottles at the drug
stores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
TO PRESERVE A LANDMARK.
Lawrence Citizens Would Preserve
Old Time Windmill

Lawrence, KAN, March 27-Several
attempts to raise money for the preser-
walton of the old windmill have been
made within the last year all of which
have been unsuccessful. Another effort
is now being made by Prof. W. H. Car
ruth, of Kansas university, which will
probably result in the purchase of the
cid mill property and caring for it 50
shat it will be preserved. Mr.. Carruth
is raising the amount for this purpose
" private subscription
This windmill which is without doubt
the Oldest landmark in Kansas, was
built in the early '40s, and for a long
time was the only mill in the state.
It is located on the side of a hill in the
western part of Lawrence, and every
year hundreds of visitors come to pay
their respects to the ancient landmark.
During the last few years the weather
las been quite severe on it, and it is
fast decaying. Unless something is done
soon for preserving it the old windmill
Will have to be torn down and will be a
thing of the past. The old mill wheel is
nearly gone and the slab-boards on the
side are falling off. 1t has been con-
demned as dangerous and all persons
are forbidden to go upon the mill prop
erty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
Fred MAxFIELp AT REST.
Funeral of Young Kansas Soldier Is
Largely Attended.

Kansas City, March 27.-The remains
If young Fred Maxfield, who died while
fighting in the Philippines, with COM
pany B, Twentieth Kansas regiment,
were buried Sunday with military hon
ors. The funeral was the largest at
tended in many years.
The services were held at the Wash
ington Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church and the obsequies were said by
-he Rev. J. A. Motter The big church
was filled with mourners and many
friends of the deceased were unable to
gain adnnittance. The religious rites
a-ere very impressive and the casket
was buried in a heap of floral offerings
lefore the altar
The members of company B accom-
Ianied the remains to Oak Grove ceme-
terry and six pail bearers were chosen
from his old comrades. The interment
of the body was made in the family lot
Where it will rest permanently.
Young MaXfield died more than a
year ago after participating in several
important battles about Manila. He
was the first member of his company to
e stricken by disease. The remains ar
rived home one week ago and the fun
craI was arranged for Sunday so that
ell of his old friends and school mates
might attend the burial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
KANSAS NEWS.
Arkansas City Joints Closed and
Town Is Dry.
Attorney General GODDARD Is
sues Strict Orders.
CITY WITHOUTLIGHTS.
Mayor Has Discontinued Elec-
trio Light Contract
And Street Work-Says No Sa-
looms, No Income.
Each Resort Paid 500 Monthly
---Will Reduce Police Force.
CITY WITHOUTLIGHTS.

Arkansas City. March 27.-Attorney
General GODDARD ordered County Attor-
ney Hargis to close the joints here
Monday, and the county attorney stated
that the orders would be carried out.
The jointkeepers have anticipated this
movement. and have agreed to close
and remain closed.
AS a consequence, Mayor Hess issued
two orders yesterday afternoon, one
notifying the electric light company to
cease furnishing light. and the other
order to the street commission, telling
him to discontinue work on the streets.
Lack of funds was given as a cause for
both orders. The mayor has also threat
looms have paid a monthly fine of 800
each. The matter was brought to
crisis by the approaching city election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27

had intended to make at least a SIS rate
between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
This the rival line could well afford to,
and was expected to do, in order to
save its local rates from here to Bar
tow. The Southern Pacific undoubted-
~ took the opportunity to restore the
conditions which existed prior to the
advent of the San Joaquin valley road
as a general competitor nearly two
years ago. Up to that time, the first
class rate to San Francisco from here
had been SIS. The Southern Pacific and
San Joaquin road, however, by reducing
its local rates, enabled passengers from
Los Angeles. by buying to Bakersfield
only and reticketing from there on, to
save So on the trip to San Francisco.
When the Southern Pacific became
aware of that fact, the $13 through
rate was made on limited tickets, first
class.
It is commented upon as peculiar
that the Santa Fe and San Joaquin val
ley lines which was intended to be
competitor to San Francisco, having
been largely built by public subscrip-
ton under that plea, should be the
means of really raising both local and
through rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
PRACTICE FOR JURY.
Judge Hazen Will Start Next One on
Civil Gases.

The April term of the district court will
begin on next Monday, but there will not
be much business transacted next week
Judge Hazen will call the entire docket
on Monday morning, and will hear such
motions as he has time for. but later
IN the week he will go over to Atchison
to hold court in the place of Judge Bland
The following week the court and mo-
ton docket will be taken up, and on
April Is the jury will be called. Judge
Hazen Will institute a new order of pro-
cedure at this term of court. Instead Of
starting in Immediately after the jury is
called with the criminal docket he will
spend two weeks in trying civil cases
before the jury.
q desire that the jury shall have some
experience before trying criminal cases. -
Judge Hazen said today, so I will put
down civil jury cases for trial first"
one, and the trial docket viii be COM
paratively light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
CITY WILL HAVE A FLAG.
Mayor Drew Says National CoIors
Must Float From New City
BUILDING

The city of Topeka owns no flag. It
formerly owned one, but the Kansas
winds whipped it into shreds. There was
no pole on the old city building, except
the one which protruded horizontally
from the northeast corner. and the city
government never invested in a new flag
but borrowed one whenever occasion de-
manded it.
Mayor Drew has determined that on
the new city building there shall be
flag staff, and from it shall fly as pretty
a flag as the market affords
We have no place where we can fly
q flag in our present quarters said
Mayor Drew today, but as soon as that
new building is done, we will have a staff
on it. and the city shall have a new flag
If L have to sell the old COW to buy one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
RAILROAD NOTES.

Trainmaster Dean of the Santa Fe is
in the hospital at La Junta having un-
dergone an operation there.-Pueblo
Chieftain.
Passenger Conductor Atkinson and
Engineer Bowers, from the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, whose
homes are in Purcell, I. II, passed
through this city on a short vacation
to Mexico.-EI Paso Herald.
The Shut Improvement company OF
this city has a contract on the Santa
F'e grading for a section of road in
eastern Oklahoma, from Perkins, Okla.
T, to Bartlesville, /. T. The distance
OF the entire section is about So miles,
Pueblo Chieftain.
The Santa Fe is building a new depot
at Caney 20x70 feet in dimensions.
Caney thinks the link between Caney
and Havana will be built this summer.
The Santa Fe is building a mammoth
pond reservoir at Ramona, a town on
it's new Bartlesville branch. The COM
pany dug well 100 feet deep but the
water contained so much salt that il
could not be used
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-27
ROUTE TO BE CHANGED.
Missouri River Forces Removal of the
Burlington Line.

Atchison, Kan, March 27.-The Bur-
Hngton and Missouri, Burlington line,
follows the Missouri river north from
Atchison. Every spring the river en-
croaches upon its right of way, and it
has been said for over a year that the
company would change the line for a
distance of forty miles to a proposed
route back from the river.
1t is now claimed the new line is be-
ing surveyed. President Perkins, of
the Burlington, and other officials pass
ed through Atchison today to inspect
the condition along the present river
route. If the road is changed it will
leave White Cloud, Kan, and several
other small towns without a railroad