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The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

England is fortunate in the fact that
her enemies attack her singly instead of
combining against her as they might do.
United action on the part of the Beers,
the mad mullah and the Irish. with
such aid as might have reasonably been
expected from France and Russia would
have made considerable trouble for the
government
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

tempts to interfere with the sale of
liquor encounters obstacles which fire.
quently prove to be insurmountabIe. A
business which can pay in taxes each
year an amount equal to half its in
vested capital is to good a thing for it's
owners to surrender without hard
struggle
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

Chicago Chronicle: A perusal of the
czar's instructions to Russian editors
respecting the publication of incendiary
matter indicates that the Muscovite
journalist is mighty lucky if he can get
to press with the real estate transfers
and the railroad time tables as his
..scare head" features
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

If Mr. Pattison can carry Pennsylva-
MIA over the Quay machine his success
will be certain to bring him into prom
inence as presidential timber A Demo-
crat who can be elected governor of
Pennsylvania the third time is calcula-
ted to attract more than passing notice.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELoR

IFrom the New York Press.l
Bride your tongue and you saddle your
temper.
In the social swim life preservers are
not so important as reputation preservers-
Generally when women are careless
about the way their legs can be seen there
there is a good reason for it.
When a woman is dead sure it isn't a
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Rich cattleman still Missing.

New York, Oct 30.-No trace was found
today of John Mulvey, the missing cat
tleman of Butte, Mont, who disappeared
on Saturday evening with 5000 in his
clothes. He was to have been married on
Sunday, and his relatives think he was
murdered and robbed
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

Rome. Oct. 30.-A bomb was exploded
outside the episcopal palace at Leghorn
last night. One child was killed and an
other dangerously injured
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Killed by Electric Car.

Ypsllanti. Mich, Oct 30-Josiah Fin
ton, a retired farmer. and his e-year-
old grandson, Ford Finton, were struck
and killed by an electric car at a cross
ing near here today.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
The Hays Go to simsbury.

Hay have gone to Simsbury. Conn.,. to at
tend the ceren onies connected with the
dedication of the chapel erected by the
secretary as a memorial to his son. the
late Adelbert Hay.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

Notice has been given on behalf of the
recently organized harvester trust that
prices are to be advanced 25 per cent,
so that farmers who have hitherto paid
800 for a machine must hereafter pay
S125 At the same time. the managing
force of the trust is to be so reduced
and reorganized that not less than $780,
600 a year will be saved by this process
alone rei-- ''
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Battle of Cienega.

Washington, Oct. 30.-The following ca
blegram has been received at the navy
department from Commissioner Wilson of
the u. s. S. Panther dated Colon, today.
Reliable report here battle Cienaga, Oct.
Is. and liberals repulsed. Santa Marta re-
ported safe. Retribution British warship)
there
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
The Wvoming's Trial

Washington. Oct 30.-A telegram re-
ceived at the navy department today
from Capt Dickens at the Mare Island
navy yard. contains the following report
of yesterdays trial of the monitor
Wyoming. The two hours full speed
trial Of the Wyoming in the open sea
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Shoe Company Fails.

Shoe company assigned today. LiabiI-
tiles $4,000, assets $4,000 The failure
Of two Chicago firms which owed the
local company $4,000 is given as a cause
for the assignment
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

Tom johnson has finally succeeded in
securing a man to. t.go up against him.
The affair was pulled off at the armory
in Cleveland before a crowd of 1000 per-
sons Tuesday night The opponent OF
the mayor hasn't been heard from since.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Accidentally Killed Himself,

Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 30-Jos. r. Miller.
aged 80, formerly postmaster of this
city, today accidentally shot and killed
himself while cleaning a rifle prepara-
tory to going on hunting trip.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Strikers win.

Montreal, Oct. 30.-The lonpsh,,,......-
VITO went out on a strike here 1estl'a satls.i'
DAY Tor an increase of wages havs vsSter- "a
paniea rnea hav,ns .0 mera the Steamship COM
81 cents an hour for day ana * naa. nos sor
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

Col William ]. Bryan has been in an
other railroad wreck The colonel has
been in q number of wrecks. political
and otherwise during his life but he
seems always to light on his feet.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

It is reported that the number of per-
sons who offered to be Mary MacLane's
devil since she went east. has reached
one hundred.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

Washington, Oct. 30.-The navy de-
partment has received a decision by the
comptroller of the treasury to the effecs
that enlisted men on the retired list ol
the navy are entitled to the extra paw
of IS cents for each medal of honor, pin
or service bar earned BY them.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
Circus sails for New York.

Dunkirlz. France, Oct. 30-Barnum 6
Raifey's show sailed from here for New
York on the Atlantic transport liner
MINNEAPOLIS.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30
WON BY CRESCENTS.
Defeated Acmes at Bowling Tourna-
ment Last Night.

The Crescents defeated the Acmes in the
tenpin bowling tournament on the Elite
alleys last night. The scores were as 1ol-
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

'sL'AigIon,' - in its first presentation TO
a Topeka audience, will be read by Mrs.
Bertha Kunz Baker, at High School
hall, Monday, November 3.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

made ddsAiglon,~ ga5no', Rosland's great p,av
be read b1'91r bv Mrs Dg & Sara Bernhardt. viii viii
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

80 oeno pest by test Satin-Slxin r,ra..-
ana Saen-skin Powder. 25c. The SLessn Me'sa5
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full DAY
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for exclusive afternoon publtca-
tion in Topeka
The news is received in the state jour
pose. busy through the entire day. A
Complete copy of the night report is also
received.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

ssIt was almost a miracle. Burdock
Blood Bitters cured me of a terrible
brea king out all over the body I am
very grateful Miss Julia F'ilbridge.
west CornwelI, Conn.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-30

FULL LEASED WIRE REPoRT
OF THE AssocIATED PRESS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
SCIENCE NEAREST OUR HEARTS

From the New York Sun.
 The tenth annual convention of the Ma tional Household Economics association has been in session in Milwaukee since Wednesday. There are louder believing sciences than household economies, but is there one that comes nearer to the business and bosom, heart and liver, all tars and fires of the commonwealth? The social economists are doing something, too. Last year a chair of household economics was founded at Milwaukee Downer college. A Wisconsin woman, Mrs. J. A. Kimberly, gave an endowment of N0.o0O. stipulating that the "clu : women" of the state should help pay the expenses. There are Special classes for girls desirous of fitting themselves for household service" So there are such girls, and their existence is a reason for thankfulness and hope. Here is a branch of technical education which has been neglected too much. But when
 The cook with her fiery face
 And the housemaid trim to see And all the rest of the household staff
 Have their economics degree
 won't they be even more impressive, aw- ful and inexorable than they are now?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
Commander of the Army.

General Miles was not graduated at West Point. He came up step by step, rising from a subordinate posi- tfon as volunteer in the civil war. His successor is to be, it is reported, General Young, who entered the army as private on April z5, 1861. He be- came the colonel of his regiment from Pennsylvania-dur the civil war, and he was mustered out as a brevet brigadier general.
 In the year following the fall of the Confederacy he was mustered into the regular army as second-lieutenant but 1t was not until 1897 that he be- came the colonel of his regiment. Tn the war with Spain he became a brig adler general and soon afterwards was sent to the Philippines, where he commanded the cavalry, and conduct, ed daring and successful campaign When he came back from the Philip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
Department Descriptive.

There has been great deal of old soldering in the departments at Wash ington," said a government official the other day. This has been notably true of employees in the postoffice department.
 After January 1 any clerk employed in the postoffice department who desires an extension of annual leave on account of illness will be compelled to fill out blank and make oath as to the disease with which he or she was afflicted, and the same must be substantiated by the physician who attended each case This course was decided upon today by Post master General Payne after an extended conference with the first assistant post master general, MT. Wynne, at which the whole question was gone over thor oughly.
 For number of years, 1t is declared, the sick leave made possible by law has been abused to great extent, and since the introduction of rural free delivery many of the clerks employed in that bureau have abused it fagrantly. Women particularly in that service. it is said, have been imbued with the belief that 1t was perfectly proper for them to in- sist on sixty days leave of absence, the thirty days that are granted for vaca- tion and the full thirty days for illness, whether i'll or well.
 Ut is understood that not a few of the women clerks in the rural free delivery have religiously used the full thirty days intended by law only in case of illness, and in some instances have spent inc time at the seashore the mountains or other summer resorts where persons usually go In summer to have good time. The department claims to have evidence of where in a number of in- stances clerks who remained away from their offices were about the streets in an apparently happy frame of mind. It is because of this that the Postmaster Gen eral has taken the action referred to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30

From the New York World.
 In quoting the newspaper story Of the little girl arrested for picking up coal along the Lackawanna railroad and com mending the Bloomfield judges discharge of the culprit Dr. Parkhurst in his ser mon last Sunday added this illustrations
 If were dying of starvation and had no means of buying piece of bread, and were to go by bakers where bread was within reach, I should help myself to 1t. And the way I should reason would be this: That bread belongs to the baker but it Is more Gods bread than 1t is the bakers and I am one of Gods little boys Qaughter), and therefore understand the proximity of this loaf to be answer to the prayers I offered my Father this morn ing, Give me this day my daily bread " Suppressed laughter)
 With due recognition of the humanity that prompted Dr. Parkhurst in making this supposition, it must be added that his reasoning in this case, If not actually defective, is at least liable to serious mis- conception and differences.
 To most people in the case the doctor SupDOSeS ll6 dCllOn WUulu DS lS6dA dOo oo pardonable, though the reasoning would seem to be fallacious. Certainly 1t would be a strange way for the answer to prayers for daily bread to come Grant ing the moral, not to say religious, validi- ty of the reasoning, it would be equally proper for the bank chashier who needs more money and prays for it to help himself to the money at hand as an an- swer to his prayer. But in that case we fancy even Dr. Parkhurst would say the cashier was mistaken about the answer to his prayer.
 Moral teachers in public places need to be very careful in their suggestions as to an individual suspension of Divine or human laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
Poll Tax Condition in Louisiana.

On Tuesday next Louisiana voters will accept or reject proposition for repeating the poll tax provision of the constitution of their state, adopted in 1898. This provision requires the pay ment of poll tax two years in ad- vance of an election at which the voter offers to vote. The payment of the tax in question is not compulsory, but any man under 60 years of age must, in order to have the right to vote, have paid the poll taxes assessed two years before. Such taxes are not cumulative in Louisiana; in Alabama they are.
 If the pending amendment be rat flied the poll tax will no longer be in Louisiana prerequisite for voting. Voting and poll tax paying will, in other words, be divorced, and public sentiment in Louisiana seems to favor such a divorce. Experience goes to show that it does not elevate or purify the suffrage-tnat some boss pays at the proper time the poll taxes of his followers, while the busy man forgets the condition and is de- barred from the electorate.
 It may be that the poll tax provis- ion of Alabama will be eliminated after awhile, or at least so amended that 1t will not be cumulative, and therefore prohibitory. Under it's terms there will soon be in this state large number hopelessly deprived of suf- frage rights, and it is indeed a ques- tion whether it is wise in the state to accumulate such a class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
Oil Not a Good Fuel.

While Admiral Melville's expert ments in the use of fuel oil show that it is more expensive than coal, the Southern Pacific railroad, which de- sires to use fuel oil, has decided at length to abandon it's use on other grounds. A Tacoma dispatch says:
 After making a test of oil as fuel on Its passenger locomotives for ten months, the Southern Pacific railroad has decid- coal. and It's mines at Carbonate have received orders to begin shipping 25O0O tons month It Is reported that oil was not a success on the passenger To- comotives for two reasons. One, that it deposited a coating on the hues. which had to be removed every day. or it kept the heat from the water, causing a great waste of fuel. The other was the intense heat produced by the oil cracked and split the boiler chests"
 When it is remembered that both the Texas and the California oil fields are located on the line of the South ern Pacific, and that coal deposits have been found near its main line, It will be seen that this decision is to say the least discouraging to produc- CTS in the oil fields. The use of oil took away the cinder nuisance; it is the cheapest fuel that the Southern Pacific can purchase, and yet it's use as fuel is abandoned because it in- wolves serious objections.
 The use of new oil-burning devices may lessen these objections, but at present. it is plain, the use of fuel oil will not be extended rapidly. The supply of oil is abun-ant, and it prom ises to remain so many years to come, but the means for consuming it with economy and without bringing in se- rious troubles do not seem to be at hand, and Old King Coal will not be dethroned very soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
Last Days of ihe campaInn.

In these last days of the Alabama campaign the voter should forget for moment cotton and trade and pri- vate business, and consider the busi- ness of the state-that is to say, the bushes Of all in the state. He should think over the issues involved, and the scope of the election that will take place next Tuesday. First of all, he should bring himself to a frame of mind that will compel his attendance at the polls on that day.
 Not only are state officers, nine congressman and legislature to be chosen, but the primary system is at stake. If any candidate named in a democratic primary suffer defeat, the efficiency of the system will be ques- toned, and even light vote on Tues day may be construed as a condemna- tion of selections by the people in- stead of cliques.
 Then, too, the state especially needs capable members of the legislature because general laws are to be per fected putting each and every sec tion of the constitution into full op- eration. Many important questions will come up in the next legislature, and every county should send good representatives to it.
 The lily white Nombine boasts that it will capture forty members of the legislature, and that it will thus be able to dictate the settlement of nine problems out of every ten that will arise. The lily whites are discount ing the apathy that unmistakably ex- ists-that dangerous over-confidence which permits surprises. They are rallying the discontented, and they are looking for votes in every quar- ter. They have annexed the populists in body, and their chairman says the lily whites will sweep the state. So they will if the democrats stay away from the polls on Tuesday next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
LONG JOURNEY A-HoRsEsAck.
From West Virginia to Ohio Thi, Queer Woman Lawyer VIII Ride.

From the Indianapolis news.
 With brace of revolvers at her side. a bowie knife in the booting and a new riding suit. Mrs. Leila Frazer, wife of Colonel James c. Frazer of Morgantown. ". Va, mounted her sorrel charger this morning and rode out of town, westward bound. Columbus, O., is where she ex- poets to draw rein in the course of week. If T have no bad luck" as she expressed 1t. Mrs Frazer will not make her journey on a side saddle as the women of ten and twenty years ago would travel. but, being up to date, she sits astride. takes the reins in the left hand and poises herself in manner that would do justice to the memory of General Phil Sheridan.
 Mrs Frazer halls from England and converses with the usual accent She and her husband practice law under the firm name of Frazer & Frazer, their diplomas having been given to them at the same time by the faculty of the West Virginia university. A few years ago they were engaged in the grain and feed business at 4aAdi tiiiopuiB Bf W. fd-s Dul they WedrleQ of the prosaic life of weighing out oats and corn and dispensing chicken feed and decided to take up Blackstone.
 As the story goes they bored over the contents of the great legal 1uminary's commentaries during their leisure hours at the feed store. In the course of time the doors of their little Berkeley county institution were closed. They bade fare well to old ties and friends in that neck of the woods and proceeded to the Athens of West Virginia.
 Even at that time Mrs. Frazer refused to travel on the steam cars, and, pro- viding herself with bag of eatables and two bushels of oats for her horse, she started astride, man fashion, for Morgan town. She came in on time, but the cultured scions of this classical town were shocked beyond description when they saw her dismound at the old Wal lace tavern, where she tide her steed and went in to change her garb.
 Colonel Frazer had taken the Baltimore and Ohio and had proceeded her by sev- Morgantown and entered the first year of law in the department of the university. It took two years for the former grain dealers to graduate, but they succeeded at last, and were given the authority to practice within the confines of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
eadsden.

"Gadsden had a population of 42S2 in 1900. and it's population today is fully 5000" said a railroad official. Alabama City, a suburb of Gadsden. has popula- ton of SO00 and Attalla, which is near by. claims over 2oOO souls. The greater Gads- den. therefore has a population of be- tween ten and eleven thousand.
 ''The decision of the sehulers to build a furnace and steel mill at Gadsden will give a great impetus to that thriving city. Values are already jumping and a pretty good boom is expected.
 ''If the schulers deyelope their plans on the large lines which they have am nounced, Gadsden will have a population of fifteen or twenty thousand by the time the next census is taken.
 Tt Is said that the schulers had about decided to locate their new plant near Bessemer, and that they switched off to Gadsden only few days before they made their plans public"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
A FLOYD FRUIT FARM.
the Richmond Dlspatch

From the Richmond Dispatch.
 Commissioner of Agriculture Koiner has received from the Radford fair some fine specimens of apples grown on the fruit farm of MT. w. Scott in Floyd county They have been sent to Wash ington to have models made from them. In speaking of MT. Scotts orchard, Com missioner Koiner said;
 Tt is the largest in Virginia, contain ing SO,OO0 apples, 27,0o0 peach and 5000 pair trees. The orchard is situated on the summit of the Blue Ridge overlooking Patrick, Franklin. Henry and other Pied mont counties Martinsville, 40 miles dis tant, can be seen with the naked eye.
 "The apple trees in this orchard when they begin to bear will yield S0,0OO barrels of apples, and 1t will require 150 box cars to transport the shipment from the or chard to distant points"
 Commissioner Koiner has great faith in the development of the fruit growing industry in Virginia, and considers 1t one of the most profitable branches of agri- culture in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30

pines he was made a major general, and president of the army war col lege.
 When General Miles is placed on the retired list for age General Young will be the ranking major general, and no doubt he will be placed at the head of the army. so far as a military officer can be said to have that dis tinction. He will not become, how ever, a lieutenant general unless con gres grants him that distinction.
 West Points record in the civil war was an enviable one. but at present the tide seems to have turned. and the officers from the ranks or from civil lift are securing the best plums.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF 4
 MAD DOG.

By Oliver Goldsmith. Good people all, of every sort,
 Give ear unto my song; And if you find 1t wondrous short,
 It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man
 Of whom the world might say That still a goodly race he ran
 Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had
 To comfort friends and foes: The naked every day he clad
 When he put on his clothes. And in that town dog was found,
 As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hounos And CUTS of low degree. This dog and man at first were frienos, But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends,
 Went mad, and bit the man. Around from all the neighboring streets The wondering neighbors ran, And swore the dog had lost it's wits To bite so good a man. The wound it seemed both sore and sad To every Christian eye; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die But soon wonder came to light
 That showed the rogues they lied The man recovered of the bite. The dog it was that died.