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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
CRIME OF GREAT CITIES.
Felix Adler Discusses the Question
and Suggests Remedies

New York. Jan. 14.-Felix Adler. in his
talk on 1.-The Degradation of Great
Cities and the Remedies" before the
Society for Ethical Culture, in Carnegie
hall last night. said:
.sWhat is a bad ciey?" DR.. Adler asked.
New York" he answered. In New
york. Philadelphia and Chicago we have
put the burglar in charge of the bank
That is all the trouble. In this city the
maintenance of law is in the hands OF
those who are prohting by the violation
.sThe whole movement for reform
means simply to depose the burglar ana
all the others who profit py the vloiallo y
of law There is at present what IS
called an 'anti-vice crusade in the city.
and many of those who at present feel
most outraged by the conduct of our
city government are not without quit
themselves. It is because the forces OF
corruption have passed the line which
even the worldly minded draw that the
present gust Of indignation has come
s'There are social vices which have al
ways existed and which, doubtless tor
a long time will continue to exist me
trouble is that they have been arp-
hciaIIy pampered and positively encour-
aged The vile stream has overlooked
its banks and is bearing the little ch1i-
dren away on its terrible flood It IS
that fact which has evoked the storm
OF protests.
the large cities of the country.
"And at the root of all the trouble IS
partisan dictatorship-the boss system
as it is called. OF course the people
want a scapegoat. At present II nap
pens to be the gentleman with the con
spicuous personality who has the kind
ness to run the city OF New York Tor
US. People even talk as If the whole
trouble would be mended as soon as we
give him his congo. Such talk IS, OF
course. futile. The older persons here
remember his predecessor, and am
afraid you of the younger generation
may have cause to remember his sue
cessor.
income which he controls. This is, in
the first place. from patronage when
has been in part cut of from his controi
1v the civil service regulations Ine
fanatics of civil service REFORM how
ever overlook the fact that as this par
tfc11lar source Of income was taken
away another one came up through the
corporations.
1.-The boss has benefits to confer and
fear to inspire. And in the places IN
their ernp1oyment he has an entirely
new means of reward The next step
must be to cut off this control over cor
porations.
said to me: I hate and despise myself
1.-THE third source of the power OF the
boss is crime He gets supplies from
the iailbirds. It is not enough for US
to stop the mischief in the red light
district It is not enough to bring q
few Individual offenders to condign pun
ishment. This is not merely an anu
vice crusa de'-there never was a greater
raisnoner. We must cut of this line OF
supplies to the besieged citadel II We
wish to destroy the power of the boss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
RESENTED AN INSULT.
An American at a British BANQUET
Objects to Slurs.

Seattle. Wash. Jan. 14.-Special cor
respondence Of the observation-disclosures
from Dawson City tells Of an interna-
tional disturbance which arose there at
a Christmas dinner. Major f. C. Wood.
commander OF the Yukon mounted DO
lice. gave a banquet to which were in
vited a number Of the most prominent
government men in Dawson The only
American there was T. A. Miner. resi-
dent manager for the Alaska CONNER
cia1 company. Everything went smooth
" until il came to Sheriff FfIbecks turn
to respond to g. toast TO the Govern
ment Officials" The sheriff spoke dis
paragingly OF the Americans living IN
the country, and his speech reached a.
climax when he said that "it is to be
regretted that all the Americans of the
Yukon country ara OF the 'soapy Smith
kind"
Miner at once jumped to his feet
with the words Am I to be fnsultei -
and threw his glass Of wine in the
@Aor1fIs face He then walked cut OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
FOE TRIAL YACHTs.
vaIkirie III and Distant Shore Will
Be Raced With the Shamrock.

New York. Jan. 14--A dispatch to the
World from Glasgow says:
valxirIe III has been purchased by
James Coates, owner Of the big
schooner .Gleniffer, and win be used In
the Shamrock trials. Duncanm. who
sailed the Afadge in the states. s. to be
sailing master
Distant Shore, now named Cariad. Is
another probable trial yacht The
statement has been made that the Ger
man emperor's Meteor Will also be fitted
out for the trial races in June.
The measurements Of the HerreshotL
new defender as published are doubted
by British yachtsmen. who believe the
yacht viii have a smaller body and a
greater draught.
The shamrock,s construction IS pro-
crossing slowly but steadily. Barrie,
Sir Thomas Iiptcn's New York agent.
is here arranging about the tugs ana
tenders with Watson. Last night no
entertained q. number Of friends at a
dinner at the Central hotel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14

to the delay in delivering materials.
Russia made great strides last year.
and in naval progress competition
among the powers she easily heads tha
list. Germany coming next and Japan
third, while England only secured fourth
place. Russia completed and ccumi.t-
stoned two first-class battleshipe, ona
first-clasg ar1nored cruiser and eight
destroyers Moreover she launched
three first-class battleships. one frst-
class arnnored cruiser. one second-clas4
cruiser, two third-class cruisers ana
three destroyers. The rapidity Of Rus
sian ship building was one Of the fea-
lures Of the year. The armored cruiser
Gromobos. a formidable vessel OF 1900
tons, which was only laid down az th9
Baltic works. St Petersburg. in May
1898, Is now en- route to China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
LITTLE TO BOAST OF.
England Didn't Launch New Battle
ship Last Year.

New York, Jan. 14.-England, al
though the first naval power in the
world has not much to boast about IN
the matter of naval progress IN 1900
says the London correspondent Of the
Tribune. Not a. single battleship was
third-class cruiser, four sloops and
eighty destroyers completing the list
and no real beginning has yet been
made with this years programme ex-
cept in the case of two new second
class cruisers, as the contracts for six
new armored cruisers have only just
been given out, and the first keel plates
of two new battleships viii not be laid
till the end Of March. It is some con-
ISOLATION to Englishmen to know that
Frances naval progress at the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
10 TAKE in BIG FOUR.
Another Railroad Combination Pro-
iectsd BY Vanderbilts.

jected by Vanderbilts-
New York, Jan. 1.-THE Tribune says:
The interests in control Of the New
York Central have under consideration
a plan for merging the Big Four rail-
road into the New York Central system.
The ownership of the Big Four Is vested
absolutely in the Vanderbilts- This
was announced some time ago, and IS
shown by the public reports made by
the New York Central. For some time
a merger of the properties has been con-
templated but it was not until recently
that the plan took definite shape. 1t has
been known for a long time that it was
at the disposal Of Vanderbilt interests.
and its manifest destiny was to become
an integral part of the New York Cen
trail 1t is said that the New York Gen.
tral Will be helped to a marked degree
by the merger Upon just what basis
the absorption viii take place can not be
stated, but there is report that the
stockholders viii be asked to exchange
stock for a 31z per cent New York Cen
trial bond
Another step IN lire with the railroad
mergers and consultations now going
on was taken Saturday when the control
OF the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Vir-
ginia railroad passed to the Norfolk s.
Western.
The Norfolk & Western is owned by
the New York Central Pennsylvania
combination These two systems jointly
purchased the property as they did the
Chesapeake & Ohio. BY this purchase
Nlle NulAoih q " SSleiu gets a terminal
in Cincinnati and a connection with the
Big Four It is said that the present
terminals Of the property in Cincinnati
win be greatly enlarged and improved
and much traffic from the west will be
diverted to the Norfolk & Western BY
this combination a clear line is secured
for the New York Central and Pennsyl-
vania combination from Chicago and
St. Louis to tidewater at Norfolk. The
two systems forming this line the Nor
folk a Western and the Big Four are
controlled absolutely by the Pennsyl-
vania-NeW York Central combination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
TO VISIT GERMANY.
Baroness Won Kette1er Desires to See
Her Mother-in-Law.

Chicago. Jan IA special to the Rec
ord from Detroit, Mich says. Baroness
Won ketteIer. formerly Miss Ledyard.
widow of the late German minister to
China, will sail for Germany the latter
part Of this month. She viii not be &C
companled by any member of her own
family Her health is now completely re-
stored. and she desires to visit her late
husbands mother. who IS so years old.
Baroness Won Ketteler has received sew
eral personal letters from the Emperor Of
Germany and Count Won BuelOW express
ing sympathy for her in her bereavement.
The emperor said he hoped soon to well
come the baroness to her country She
may reside In Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
WILD OVER COAL FIND.
Reported Rich Deposits Advance the
Realty Values at Eau Claire, Mich

@~---C1
St. Joseph, Mich, Jan.14-The citizens
of the village OF Eau Claire, Is miles
east Of this city, are in a fever Of ex-
element over the discovery of a rich
coal vein on the William Dem farm
three miles west OF the corporation linn
it.
Several prospectors from the coal re-
giOns Of Pennsylvania, who have been
examining the ground in the vicinity
have expressed the opinion that not only
the territory where the Dem vein was
found is rich with coal. but that the en-
tire Eau Claire district contains large
quantities OF coal, and within a short
time mines viii be opened which will
rival the productive coal mines of Penn
sylvania-
IN the last "A hours real estate within
the boundaries of Eau Claire has ad-
vanced from 20 to 40 per cent above the
normal valuation
The prospectors will act jointly with
MI Denns and have already contracted
for construction Of q 200-foot shaft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14

the banquet hall. The others in the
party made every effort to reconcile the
men, and the shediff, realizing his error,
made an elaborate apology, but it took
all the men present at the banquet 20
keep Miner from thrashing Filbeck-
The affair is being kept quiet in Dawson
and Major Wood is doing everything IN
his mower to erect q reconciliation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
BOLD HIGHWAYMEN.
Knock q Chicago Man Down and Rob
Him of $500.

Chicago, jan 14.-Edward Kelly, a
prominent race horse man, is at his
home in a dangerous condition as the
result of a desperate battle with two
hfghwaymen. Kelly was on his way
home, and in an effort to save his mon
ey and val1ables resisted when the foot
pads presented revolvers at his head
and ordered him to hOldup his hands.
In consequence he was knocked down
and brutality beaten and robbed Of mon
eY and Valuables to the amount Of $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
Waahout IN Oregon.

Portland, Ore, Jan. 1.-THE heavy
rains of the past two days have caused
many streams to rise and railroad traf-
fic in the northwest has been somewhat
delayed by washouts All the main
lines have been cleared, however, and
today the trains are running close to
schedule time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14

Kansas City. Jan 1L-AEajor A Bruce
Powell. postmaster at Coneyville, kan.
who was injured in this city Saturday
night. was sent TO his home last night
Major Powell was walking near the Mid
land hotel, when he fell on an icy sidewalk
and broke his left leg near the ankle He
vas taken into the hotel and the injury
dressed BY DR.. Ernest Robinson. Major
Powell is 81 years OF age. He was
officer in the Confederate army and is
stanch Republican and friend Of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General J. L. Bris-
tow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
WISE LIFE INSURANCE.
Left at Least $500 For His
Family.

The late Representative wise leaves
quite an amount Of life insurance 1t Is
known that he carried 5000 in the Mod
ern Woodmen. 1000 in the Sons and
Daughters of Justice and s. 500 In the
Massachusetts Mutual. There may be
other insurance. but one Of the members
says that he is positive that the amounts
stated were carried in the companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14

The governor viii have to reappoint the
Pan-American commission Of fourteen
which he named some time ago because
there is "a state law which provides that
a man cannot be Iegislated into office. BY
passing the Pan-American bill these men
would be leg1slated into office and that
would clearly be Illegal. After the bill
Is passed the governor may raappolnt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
uninn of churchea.

Chicago. Jan. 1.-THE movement begun
in the suburb of Austin a few weeks ago
for the union of the Christian and Con-
gregationaI churches was discussed last
evening in a union meeting at the Congre-
gationaI church. Both the pastors. tn
Rev G. A. Campbell and the Rev W l.
ton each being in favor of the unity Of
the two churches without creed or dogma
to divide them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-14
FarI Of CIonmeI'a Health.

New York. Jan. 14-The Earl Of Clonr
mel. who has been critically III with pneu-
moria for the past week. IS reported to be
slowly regainiug his health, although he
is still in a serious condition
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS.

Minnesota has 200 less inmates in prisons and reformatories than it had in 1897.
 An association in Raleigh, N. C., is making an effort to preserve the boy hood home of President Andrew Johnson in that city.
 A hotel erected near the grounds of the Buffalo exposition covers nine acres and can serve 5000 customers at one time in it's dining-room.
 Tampa, a child of Havana in the cigar-making industry, has outgrown its mother as a purveyor for the United States of all Havana cigars.
 Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, says in a newspaper communication that lex perience has shown asphalt or brick to be the ideal pavement for resi- dence streets, and dressed granite blocks for heavy traffic streets"
 New Yor1 has just introduced bath equipment into one of it's public schools, situated in a crowded tcne- ment district. It consits of 14 show CT baths, the spray system having been found to give the greatest clean Illness and economy of time.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
VERDICT MEANT DEATH.

Aldrich, Mo-, May 27.-Four of the best doctors in the vicinity have been in attendance on Mrs. Mollie Moore, of this place, who has been suffering with a very severe case of Nervousness and Kidney Disease. Each of them told her that she would die.
 Hearing of Dodd's Kidney Pills, she began to use them, and instantly no ticed a change for the better. Her i'm. provement has been continuous since then. She says that the disease first manifested itself by the appearance of dark spots floating before her eyes. Her nerves were so bad that many times they would collapse completely, and she would fall down as if shot.
 The fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills saved her after four doctors had given her up, has caused no end of talk in this neighborhood, and all are loud in their praises of this new remedy-Dodd's Kidney Pills-which is curing so many hitherto incurable cases, in this state and elsewhere.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30

From Mrs. Amanda Shumaker, who has charge of the Grammar Department of the Public Schools, of Columbia City, Wash, also Past Grand of Independent Order Of Good Templars, Dr. Hartman received the following letter:
 COLUMBIA CITY, WASH.
 "I can speak only good words of the repeated benefits 1 have had from the use of Peruna.
 "TOo constant application 10 work last winter caused me to have severe head and backache and dragging pains. could nOf stop my work, neither was ' fit to go on. Reading of f1e bene- fciaI results from the use of Peruna 7 purchased q bottle and within q few days after using if, began to feel better. q constantly improved and before the seventh bottle was completely used, all pains were gone, my strength was restored, and l now seem ten years younger.
 If get tired or feel bad, Peruna at once helps me, and I feel you deserve praise for placing such a conscientious medicine before suffering public"
 Mrs. Amanda Shumaker. Mattie B. Curtis, Secretary Legion of Loyal Women, Hotel Salem, Boston, Mass, writes:
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
Bones and Bone Cutters.

Bone for poultry is usually pun chased from local butchers, tlGe price depending upon the locality; some times it is given away. Bones may be kept a long time by subjecting them to sulphur fumes for half an hour in a suitable box having d lid. An old trunk serves we'll. Put the bones in, light a sulphur candle or a tablespoonful of sulphur, and close the lid. A bone cutter is almost in- to success, as bones greatly assist in making hens lay. It is not known which is the best cut ter, as each has claims in it's favor; but that a bone cutter will soon re- pay it's cost is conceded by all poul- trymen who are enterprising-F and Preside.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
Horses Thrive on Dainties.

Succulent food should be providedsin sufficient quantities to give the horse a ration at least once week. Car rots are favorite food for horses, as they tone the digestion and im- prove the appearance of coat. Horses will soon learn to eat potatoes, sugar beets, cabbage and rutabagas. If roots cannot be obtained, ensilage will be found good substitute, especially if made from clover, or soy bears, to balance the winter rations. If roots or ensilage cannot be obtained, tbfa q good bran mash should be subxH, ,ated once a week.-RuraI World.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
KEEPING UP THE FARM.
Unless the Soil Is Enriched Systemat icaIIy, Failure of Crops Is Al-
 most Always the Result.

Keeping up the farm, the most inn portant part of farming, seems to be what most farmers overlook. They seem to think that farm ought to raise crop after crop without ever wearing out. Such is not the case. The farm must be kept up if we ex. pect to make success of farming. The common practice in this country is to take everything off the ground; never putting anything back to pre-. serve it's fertility.
 great many think that if they let B field grow up to weeds for a year and then burn the weeds off that such treatment is sufficient to keep the ground in good condition. Some SOW clover and then pasture it off into the ground. This leaves the soil in no better condition than if they had not sowed clover. On. land thus treated some farmers will SOW wheat or corn. They don't get crop. Then comes the old cry, mo use to SOW wheat, for we broke up clover sod and got nothing" The trouble is they did not blow under any clover at all, when they should have plowed under the clover when it was in full bloom. If the land was thus managed good crops would be raised and the soil enriched.
 Another mistake that some farmers make is in not cutting up all the COTS raised on the farm for fodder and feeding it with all the straw on the place. A small feed yard should be made for this purpose and the straw stacked in the feed yard at threshing time. During the winter feed the fod- der around the strawstack, and once every month throw a barrel of lime around the feeding place. This will furnish manure enough to cover sev- eral acres of ground, which should be hauled out before threshing time, and the yard made ready for the new crop Manure should always be plowed un. der for best results. If the farm were managed in this way it's fertility would be preserved and good crops of all kinds of grain could be raised.-C. E. Kearney, in Rural World.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30

sician. She cannot bring herself to tell everything, and the physician is at a consssat disadvantage. This is why, for the past twenty-five years, thousands of women have been con- fding their troubles to Mrs Pinlzham, and whose advice has brought happi- ness and health to countless women in the United States.
 Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, H., whose portrait we publish, advises all suffering women to seek Mrs. Pink hams advice and use Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound, as they cured her of inflammation of the ovaries and womb she, therefore, speaks from knowledge, and her experience ought to give others confidence. Mrs. Pink hams address is Lynn, Mass, and her advice is absolutely free.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
USES OF THE sILo.
It Helps to Make the Farm Riches Allows You to Work It Harder
 and Saves Feed Hills.

Yes, build silo. You are in farming as business. Why not act according ly? It will fit into the whole operation of your farming, and if you make dairying a speciality it will, without a hint of a doubt, fit into your COW keeping.
 It does not matter what fellows who never had silos say. Nor does the experience of the man who had bad silo and consequently bad silage count against the good silo and the good silage. Those fellows don't know Better take evidence from a competent witness. Go ask some one who does know and who can reinforce his knowledge with increased live stock, better kept and more profit able-the man who has proven the pud- ding by having eaten of it. There has been no plant discovered from which we American farmers can produce as much good food for our cows as from our corn, and up to this time no way has been found by which so much of the feeding value and the palatability can be saved as in a good silo. There is no other feed that have found more relished by my cows than silage. A great deal of the starch that goes in with the corn comes out sugar in the silage, and when it has gone into the mouth of good COW it comes out milk in the bucket.
 In corn we produce food value more sheaply than in any other growth and in the silo we preserve it more cheaply than by any other method.
 The silo is not omnipotent; it does not hold the balance of power between success and failure for the careless, lazy farmer. But it is like good wife, it can assist nightly. It is like reli- zion, one must have it to know what a good thing it is and only the good kind is worth having. Not only are the corns and the cloyers and the beans put into the silo. but the sweet green ness and the odors of summer as well, and the winter dairy tastes the corn fields from the silo. Yes, built a silo. It helps the dairy, and the young stock. It helps you make your farm richer and allows you to work it harder. It saves you feed bill and fertilizer bills. It eases up prosperity a little.-W. F. McSparran, in Ohio Farmer.
Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30

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Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30


 Peruna as it cured her of constitutional headache and stomach troubles. I at once ordered a bottle and before it was used, felt greatly improved.
 :" have taken four bottles and for two months have been entirely free from these maladies. Several of my friends are using Peruna with bene- ficial results, especially in cases of troubles with the kidneys and other pelvic organs, together with weak nesses peculiar to women."
 Peruna is specific for the catarrhal Arrangements of women.
 If you do not derive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratis.
 Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,O o.