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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-11-15

ed and shoveled off alternately at the
cut and the fill, as the case might be,
and small were the civilities that
passed between crews.
Casey was rather young man for so
responsible a calling, but there was
one line besides train dispatching at
which he was even less experienced,
and he was finding constantly that his
pathway was beset with new perplexl-
ties and wonderments. This morning
he was absent-minded, subject to I'M
wonted starts and other symptoms.
Casey hardly knew what was wrong.
but he suspected strongly, and SO dld
Annie. It was hard to confne his brain
to the work in hand. Instead of train
numbers and switches and sidings and
stations his mind was filled with such
irrelevant matters as the shape OF
certain young woman's nose and the
way the sun shone in her hair. But he
pulled himself together and got the
hang of the days work before things
began to snarl up.
The alternating gravel trains were
attended to early. Conductor Grimes
and his so Italian laborers were sent
back to the cut to finish loading their
train with gravel. O'Connor and his
gang were put to work for awhile at
the fill, unloading the fiat cars that had
been filled the night before by the
steam shovel. All this was easy. The
passenger trains and the through and
way freights were reported o. X, and
Casey allowed his min dto wander just
a little, prospecting on the quality OF
picnic wea Their he and Annie would get
tomorrow for their trip up the river.
Then he was called back to earth by a
message from the operator at the cut
five miles above. Grimes wanted to
run up to the water tank, three miles
further on, to fill the tender Casey
gave the right of way.
About this time O'Connor had fin
ished his unloading at the FILL and his
; long train of empty flats pulled up at
the station for orders. The so ida
1 goes' sat complacently in the sun.
smoking their black pipes and saying
nothing, like SO many craven images.
Casey sent them along the line to the
/ cut for another load. Casey laughed
\ again at the stoliditv of the Italians,
and wondered if they ever felt as he
\ did. They did not seem to care wheth-
Ser school kept or not. but then, they
didn't know the condition of the train
!. dispatcher's mind, although this
B ought to have been of vital interest to
them. Still, the passengers and the
/. through and the way freights were do
! ing nicely, and it was already ten
1, clock
Il a., Just then Anne came by. She ought
B mot to nave done SO in business hours,
4 hut she wanted to ask Casey what
lunch TO put up for to-morrow's pic
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-11-15

eitka 10 tho Oldest settlement of I'm
portanee in Alaska.
Columbian half dollars of 1893 are
quoted at 60 to rs cents.
Australia is exporting picked sheep
skins to the United States.
Japanese are now producing about
100000 pounds of tea annually.
y solid cubic foot of anthracite
weighs in round numbers 100 pounds
A chestnut tree has been known to
live for $50 years, oak 1000. and yew
assoc yearz.
The little German university town
of Jena has no fewer than seven free
reading rooms.
The United States continues at the
head of the list of the worlds ex"
porting nations.
The report that King Edward has
cancer has finally been admitted by
q London newspaper.
Norway, Servia, Greece and Bulgaria
are the only European nations which
have but one house of parliament.
The St. Louis fair is not only go
ing to have lady managers, but is go
ing to have "lady managers at large"
During the first half of this year
261 textile mills were built, of which
143 were cotton, SO knit goods and Is
miscellaneous.
Seven miles an hour is the camel's
lint in fGA
over two hours. Its usual speed is five
miles an hour.
King Edward has given great Of
tense to his own church because he
attended services at a Presbyterian
church the other day.
The chairman of the prevention OF
cruelty to animals society is trying
to persuade the town council OF Ber-
lin to levy tax on cats.
Edmond Potter has just published
the second volume of his catalogue OF
the vases in the Paris Louvre, one of
the finest collections in the world.
The tobacco trade war has already
commenced, the American trust hav-
ing notified it's retailers of large
reduction in the price Of cigarettes.
The naval department will intro
duce on the new German batt1eships
% German centimeter rapid firing
guns, the largest heretofore being "a
centimeter.
The people of St. Louis have adopt
ed at the polls charter amendments
to enable the authorities to put the
city in first-class condition for the
worlds fair.
A tour of the agricultural districts
of England and Wales reveals the fact
that scores of farms are absolutely
abandoned, that hundreds more arc
in a semiderelict condition.
Bishop Schereschewsky, one of the
missionary bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal church, is engaged in
translating the Scriptures from the
original tongues into the Weu-li dia-
lect of the Chinese language.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-11-15
A STRONG W1NDLASS.
1t Saves Lots of Hard Work at
Dutcherfng Time and Its Cost
IL InsiEnificAnt.

. When butchering day comes, to
most farmers it means plenty of hard
work and much lifting. The illustra-
ton, which explains it fully, viii light
EN- this work greatly. Make it so that
it will be strong enough, and that is
all that is necessary. The bearing of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Gle at four different and distinct points;
or
If a cross x mark in any circle pro-
trudes beyond the circumference of said
circle: or
If the voter has failed to vote for
any one named or unnamed. or who
might have been named on the ballot
within any of the squares or circles; or
If the voter has voted for the names
of more candidates than those whose
names can be written on the ballot
with a No. 2 F'aber in the blank or any
other column: or
If the voter overwhelmingly puts the
ballot in his pocket and carries it home
with him, and it eventually lodges on
the kitchen shelf; or
Ii the ballot has been written upon or
marked with anything but a pink lead
pencil with a square rubber held at an
angle of As degrees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
AMERICAN ENGINES ABROAD.

Lately there has come from the con-
sular reports of the United States,
simultaneously, references to the stand
ing of American locomotives in several
foreign countries In the main what
they have to say is creditable to the
mechanical product of this country.
In Germany until within recent years
there has not been any great advances
in railroad equipment, but the Column
b1an exposition was something of an
eye-opener, and since then the mechan-
1cal experts from there have kept close
tab on every move which the American
engineers have made. Only a compare
lively few railroad engines from this
side of the water have gone over for
trial in Germany, but it is understood
that pending an official report they
have pleased wherever used. Their
enormous size has been a valuable les
son to the traffic companies, which are
on the lookout for a saving of expense.
Then the parts of an American rail-
road locomotive are made interchange
able, so that in case of an accident the
broken piece can be at once replaced
without delay. In Germany sometimes
it requires a number of weeks to make
what here would seem insignificant re-
pairs to an engine.
There have been many things which
have brought about this lead that
Americans have taken. That necessity
is the parent of improvements never
was better shown than in the fact that
bigger problems of transportation have
been brought to the people of this coun-
try for solution than in a small country
like Germany. In area the countries
are built on a small scale, and there is
clearly not the necessity for rush that
prevails on the western continent. So
that whatever has been accomplished
in this way has come from American
ingenuity spurred on by the marvellous
opportunities and needs in shortening
the distance between New York and
San Francisco, and indirectly that be-
tween Kansas City and Liverpool
The one great objection which is
raised to the permanent adoption of the
American railway locomotive as part
of transportation facilities of Europe
is the additional amount of fuel which
it consumes over and above that of
those in use there. In this country,
where the amount of coal is practically
unlimited and petroleum is being
brought out to be used in this way, it is
no wonder that this requisite has not
received much attention.
What Americans need now, according
10 reports, more Iildn any IIlnS else Is
for their wares to be pushed before
their European customers. 1t is sug-
gested, and with much point, that there
be men who can speak f1uently the Ger
man and other foreign languages, and
that in that country as we'll as in 9TH
ers agencies be established for Ameri-
can locomotives as well as other articles
which the ingenuity and progressive
ness of this country produce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
EMPTY TALK.

There is talk of starting a new pa
per in Emporia for the purpose of abus-
ing Hood. None of the papers here will
do it. When a man edits a paper in
this town a little while he learns that
a handful of malcontents in this town
represent the entire anti-Hood senti-
ment. Nine business men out of ten
are with Hood. paper generally
stands with its advertisers, and this
new paper will do as all other Emporia
papers have done that have started TO
abuse Hood: either bust quit. This
is as certain as the sunrise. The best
proof that Hood is right and his few
enemies are wrong is that the business
community which is fair everywhere in
the world, will not tolerate a paper
which abuses Hood. Several papers
have tried. They have had money be-
hind them. But they have given up.
The stories you hear outside of town
are so unfair that people here only
laugh at them and when a malicious
editor persists in reprinting them the
people snub him out of town.-Emporia
Gazette.
There is talk of a new paper at EN-
poria, the principal mission of which
will be to abuse Calvin Hood. Mr..
Hood is an excellent citizen; nobody
disputes, so far as we have heard, that
he is an honest and useful man. The
people of Emporia should not permit
paper to abuse such a man day after
day, simply to please a lot of men who
are not equally good citizens, and not
equally honest. It is like Maclay a
laborer in the navy department, writ
ing a history in which he refers to Adj
miral Schley, the hero of Santiago. as
a "caitiff" and coward" Maclay
was not al the battle of Santiago; he
is small man who is consumed with
envy. We do not know Calvin Hood,
personally but we are familiar with his
reputa ton as an honest worthy, in
dustrious and useful man. The man
who starts paper at Emporia to abuse
Hood will not be as useful a man as
Hood, or as honest, or as fair, - as
capable, and Emporia people should
not submit to such a display of mar
rowness, unfairness and dishonesty
AtchisOn Globe.
1t is either empty talk, this report
about starting a paper at Emporia for
such a malicious purpose, or the man
who starts the paper will shortly have
an empty purse and be without a
habitation in the town wherein he would
abuse her foremost and most useful
citizen.
We can not believe that any one would
so disgrace the newspaper business as to
enter into any such proposed scheme
The number of good things that Major
Hood has done and is always doing for
Emporia and her good people can not be
enumerated. Nobody knows them all
Major Hood is always doing nice things,
helpful things and generous things and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
AFTER TAX poDaERs.

The county commissioners have be-
fore them the proposition of collecting
nearly $1,000 in unpaid personal taxes
ranging in amounts from 80 cents to
$500.
1t is not a hard matter to collect $500
from a man who can be made to pay
that amount but to collect the hundreds
of dollars in small accounts is another
proposition. The sheriff is supposed to
make the collections and the list of I'M
paid personal taxes is in his hands.
The commissioners have suggested pub
fishing a list of the persons who owe
the county and the amounts opposite
their names on the tax roll. Such list
would be startling There would be the
names of county and city officials. bus
mess men and lawyers, society folk and
spendthrifts. There are a few on the
list who can not pay or at least who
are supposed to be unable to pay but
the majority of those on the list who
owe the county are known to be well
able to pay their taxes. They are tax dodg-
ers and the commissioners should get
after them in earnest If the sheriff
can not collect the money a first-class
bill collector might be employed.
But the measures adopted by the
commissioners will scarcely reach the
rich tax dodger. They may reach the
so cent man but the $500 man is in little
danger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

scores of these actions are never made
public and never win be.
Major Hood would be a great man
and a lovable man in any city where
he may reside and there are scores of
places that would like the honor of his
citizenship He is warm in the hearts
of his own people and the handful of
his alleged enemies merely make a lit
tie noise. They don't represent sem
timent The biggest loss Emporia could
sustain would be the loss of Major
Calvin Hood; but we know they cherish
him and will continue to do SO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
KANSAS rs NOT ALONE.

In connection with the election of
Seth Low as mayor of New York and
the turning down of Tammany, a
curious problem has arisen. How to
regulate the Sunday saloon traffic in
the most satisfactory manner is an OBJ
stacle that confronts the new admins
tration, and seems to be a source of
much worry. So it appears that KAN
sas is not the only place where the
liquor question makes trouble.
Throughout the entire campaign the
clergy and the press of the city, which
was as a unit against Tammany, de-
clared that Gotham should be purified
and of course this included the enforce
ment of the Sunday closing law.
This was before election. But now
comes DR.. Parkhurst, who says that
the opening of the saloons on Sunday
would be dealing in a perfectly square
and honorable way with our German
citizens" Edmund Clarence Stedman
and other members of the New England
society have great respect for the old
New England method of Sunday OBJ
servance, but they have reached the
conclusion that the customs of citizens
of foreign birth deserve some considera-
ton. Justice Jerome now states blunt
ly and emphatically that a mans ap-
petite did not recognize the days of
the week and that, if it was not wicked
to take a drink on Monday. it was not
wicked to do SO on Sunday.
Seth Low occupies practically the
same ground as Jerome, although his
statement of his position has been less
emphatic and picturesque. These two
men are reinforced by large body of
the leading clergymen, who now claim
there are evils worked under the cloak
of the Raines law.
Friday, however, the board of man
ayers of the American Sabbath union
unanimously declared against any less
stringent laws against the opening of
saloons on Sunday than now exist. They
also demand a more rigid enforcement
of the liquor traffic laws. But on the
other hand, thousands of Germans who
supported Low declare that for such
support they must be given open Sun
day saloons.
AS an argument it is now pointed out
that New York is now the third largest
German city of the world, and has
large population of other foreigners,
and that it is often difficult for these
citizens to choose between a vote
against Tammany and vote against
a glass of beer on the sole day of
recreation which many of them have.
Two roads confront Mayor Low.
Which will he choose?
Tammany had much that was bad in
it's organization and permitted many
grievous offenses to go unpublished
where the law should have been in
voked. But they recognized that in
great city, with such an immense for
eign population, that it was almost i'm
possible TO enforce the Raines Sunday
closing law, and made little If any
effort to enforce this law, and appar-
entity the new administration is rapidly
assuming the same view. At least the
sentiments of the papers which sup
ported the reform ticket and the talk
of the reformers themselves would so
indicate New York can be made a
much more decent and desirable city
to live in, and Mr.. Low is expected to
do it, but it may be that after all no
effort to enforce Sunday closing will
be made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Discussing the divorce problem Rev.
DR.. Huntington, of Grace church, New
York, says the real custody of this
question is today in the hands of the
women who lead and govern the social
life of our cities. eff they have the
courage to pronounce, in cases that call
for it, sentence of social excommunica-
ton, and more than that. the con-
stancy to stand by their decree, this
evil which threatens the very founda-
tions of our social order will be, if not
completely removed, at least measure
bly, reduced
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison G1obe.1
If the new raglan coats fit, why they
don't fit.
Bad habits go harder with some men
than with others.
Some people are natural born artists
a drawing conclusions.
If you want to make farmer mad
propose to put road through his farm.
In these days, it takes a terribly rich
man to afford the luxury of a son-in
law.
Some of the street cars look like so
cents worth of paint would improve
them.
1t really is no wonder that people in
love lose their heads; they have been
turned so much.
Search any girl who is on the pro-
gramme for song, and you will find
that she is loaded for an encore
Too many men think that because
others have made fortunes out of pat
ent medicines. they can do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
RULING ON MILEAGE.
Judges of Election Can Be Paid Only
From Polling Places.

The county commissioners made a
ruling Friday allowing the judges of
election carrying the returns from the
voting precincts in the county to the
county clerks office milea ge- from the
voting place to town and return.
The judges are allowed 81 and cents
for each mile Travelled in carrying the
returns to the county clerk Some of
the Judges claimed mileage from their
homes instead of from the polling places
when it happened that their homes
were farther away than the polling
place. The commissioners decided that
thew should receive pay for travelling
from the polling place and not from
their homes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
THE NEW CLERGY.


| their leadership said Rev. George A.
Gates in addressing the students at
Washburn college this week DR.. Gates
| substantiated his remark by saying:
People in the churches are mature.
| and have definite opinions on all sub
jects If minister advocates anything
new, the first people to oppose him are
the prominent members of the church.
The result is that ministers are timid,
and do not dare to take advanced po-
sitions."
1t is no doubt true that ministers as
a class are not as prominent in leader
ship as some other professions. 1t is
probably true that ministers are not, as
a class, as closely in touch with the
realities of modern society as they
might well be.
But the implication in DR.. Gates
speech, that ministers are either stand
ing still or retrograding in the desire
and capacity for leadership does not
seem to be sustained by current his
tory.
There is much evidence to sustain
contrary opinion to the one expounded
by DR.. Gates. There are occurrences of
almost daily frequency which seem to
d
session of the ministers of America.
The minister who is content with
preaching two sermons on Sunday, con-
Quoting a prayer meeting and making
pastoral calls is getting to be the ex-
ception rather than the rule. Ministers
are gradually getting a new idea of the
duty of their calling, an idea which is
more in sympathy with the spirit of the
time, and an idea which may some day
be the dominant element in the solution
of momentous social and civic prob
lens. Ministers, instead of being tied
hand and foot by creeds and dogmatic
theories, are getting in tune with life,
and are finding out that people have
red blood and hungry stomachs which
have to be taken into consideration in
dealing with the soul-saving problem.
The ministers of Milwaukee are wag-
ing fierce campaign against the alleged
corruption of the police administration
in that city In Des Moines the same
thing is going on. In Wyoming, the
state of Mr. Gates present residence,
a tremendous struggle took place in the
legislature. led by Mr.. Gates himself
and other ministers, for the suppression
of gambling in the state. Gambling was
suppressed, or at least public gambling
was
But it makes no difference what the
passing result may be of such struggles
The effect on society is the same. The
minister is making a new place for him
self. He is making his influence felt
He counts for something in politics,
and in this country the nations politics
is the nations life.
Kansas presents so many examples
of ministers who are leaders in thought
and action that it is difficult to go into
any town and find it without such men.
Even in Leavenworth, Wichita and
Atchison the ministers sometimes dare
to raise their voices against the rule of
the liberals" Ministers count for some
thing besides mere preaching machines
in Kansas, as DR.. Gates will likely dis
cover if he should haply come here to
live,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Mr.. Schwab will not cut so much ice
as formerly. 1t has developed that his
salary is only $225OOO a year. instead
of million as was reported. Probably
the erroneous story was started by Mrs.
Schwab in an effort to paralyze the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Kansas people doubtless will be glad
to learn through reading Congressman
Longs communication to the president.
that they are opposed to any tariff
changes but are strongly in favor of
reeiDrocify
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

1t is customary to poke fun at south
ern towns for being slow, yet Charles
ton, South Carolina, a city of $4,000 is
about to hold an exposition under the
title of the Interstate and West In
dian" The residents have gone for
ward and erected the necessary struc-
lures, and intend to open the exposi-
ton on December 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Florida Times Union: Prepare for
BATTLE will be the signal from the ad-
mirars flagship in the next war. Where
upon half a dozen professional wit
nesses for the next court of inquiry
will Immediately report for duty and
stand about to watch every movement
of the commander and take note of ev-
cry word he dares utter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
To the Public.

Allow me to say a few words in praise
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy: I had
I would get pneumonia, but after taking
the second dose of this medicine felt
and the pains in my chest disappeared en-
tirely am most respectfully yours for
health Ralph S. Meyers, 81 Thirty-seventh
st, wheeling. w. Va For sale by all
druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

President Roosevelt has turned down
the national committeeman of three
states within the last seven days-the
members from Delaware, Texas and
Kentucky.-New York World.
Probably the World is not keeping
tab on United States senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Among the likely successors of Col
Bryan as the Democratic candidate for
the presidency are Mayor Tom Johnson,
Mayor Carter Harrison and Senator
to-be German. There will be other en-
tries from time to time.