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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

Excursion to Birmingham Satur- day night, May 10th, $1.5o round trip. Train leaves Union Depot 8 D. m. Returns Sunday night. St
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08
A. Total Eclipse.

Any man can produce a total eclipse of the sun, so far as he himself Is con cerned. by holding a dollar close to his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

The Montgomery Greys have issued in- vitatons to an informal dance to be given at Highland Park on Monday night, May Hth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

Mrs. Phares Coleman has gone t.
 Greensboro to visit her mother. Mrs. Pc terson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

The Times Democrat of last Sunda contains a picture of Mrs. J. l. McKinne of Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

Eighty actions Of wild geese are not with out some purpose, but the same cannot be said ef a great many men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-08

ASHES AND ROSES" by F. H. Lancaster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago Daily News.J
What the train dispatcher says goes.
To err may be human but to forgive IS
not
Model husbands are the men who never
marry
1t is folly to offer a wise man a penny
for his thoughts
Many a man thinks he needs wife I'M
til after he gets married.
When a sensible man gets the worst OF
it he makes the best of it.
Any man who really knows women does
not pretend to understand them.
Premonitiop is what people think they
have when they say I told YOU So
An elastic currency is the kind that en-
ables a ran to make both ends meet
Whether life is worth living depends a
good deal on your wiseness or otherwise
ness.
The employee who drops his tools at the
first stroke of the clock will never become
ar employer
An Ohio genius has invented an instru-
nent for piercing the ears without pain
Every third-rate vocalist should use one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Stockton is badly in need of more
dwelling houses for rental purposes.
Burton has a ping pong cafe. Hot
ones" Will be served over the counter.
1t was Galena operator that said
the coal strikes were being run in the
ground.
The pawpaw crop is so heavy in Cher
okee county that old residents fear it
means a cold winter.
A colored man chased from Neodesha
by mob has sued the city for 81 900 on
account of mental anguish"
A Burton citizen lost duck coat He
might find it at the revival, where four
teen converts were baptized during the
week.
A man who assisted the Neodesha mob
in running a negro porter out of town
went around the next day and applied
for his job.
A hungry Decatur county badger ate
A chickens for Farmer Gilkison, and the
pastors dog chased his bronze turkeys
| to death
Fred Badger is making so much
money out of his weekly Neodesha Reg
lister that he will start a daily to get rid
OF the surplus.
The editor of the La Crosse Chieftain
will have sausage and buckwheat cakes
if one of his subscribers brings the pig
along he hints for
While hunting eggs in the haymow
| the editor of the Oberlin Herald found a
Hole Dig enough 10 tumble through ana
| dislocate his shoulder.
Here in Shawnee county, where the
fight on county attorney is bitterly con-
tested, both candidates are wishing for
many happy returns.
A Topeka woman who recently ap-
piled for a divorce has with her hus-
! band kissed and made up. Most women
can make up without kissing.
And now water has spouted up in the
old channel of the Republican at Con-
cordia- But isn't it only natural that
there should be springs in the bed of a
river.
Over 1000 more voters have registered
in Kansas City, Kas-. this fall than two
years ago. Where there's Doodle around
It doesn't take an Arctic explorer to
find the polls.
Says the editor of the Jacksonian:
We stood on the streets Saturday. dead
broke, nursing a morose opinion of life
and a cur dog barking at our heels In
ten minutes we had taken in 81 on sub
scriptIon- We had beefsteak for sup
Der.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
Cuba Must Act.

New York Mail and Express.
The Cubans continue to take their
time in dealing with the treaty with this
country. No doubt they think they are
giving us a dose of our own medicine.
There is. however, a considerable diff
ference in principle between admins
trative temporizing and legislative de-
liberation. The Cuban government is
able to bring no reproach either of pro-
crastinatiOn or of want of generosity
against the president of the United
States and his cabinet. But we now
have the Cuban government delaying
for months its approval or it's rejection
of the treaty with the United States.
and allowing the senate to adjourn for
an autumnal recess without having the
matter placed before it. President Es-
trada Palmas disposition is known to
be excellent, but it begins to look. as a
greater president than he once said of
his own case. as If he had very little
influence with his administration.
The Cubans have lately given express
sion to a great deal of foolish suspicion
of the United States. If they are to be
credited, we are craftily undermining
their liberties-the liberties we have
given them; we are weaving wiles to
get them completely into our net Their
delay in dealing with the treaty is pro-
badly due to a combination of this sort
Of suspicion and of tropical procrastina-
ton pure and simple.
The American Republic has not the
slightest reason for dealing craftily or
treacherously with the Cuban Republic.
1t is in a position to do exactly as it
pleases 1t has dealt in all administra-
tive relations. with perfect directness
and fairness 1t is dealing so still. 1t
has made a proposition in the form of a
treaty, which the Cuban government
can take or leave. If It does not accept
it, the Cuban people will be direct and
immediate sufferers from its neglect. II
is useless for the Cubans to try to play
off European reciprocity against Ameri-
can reciprocity. They have but one
market, and that is the United States
We have put forward a proposition to
open that to them on fair terms, and il
certainly devolves upon them to accent
! it or reject it The end of their ma
mana business must certainly be very
near. Indefinite delay cannot be tolera-
! cd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
WILL WORK QUIETLY.
Plan to Secure Lower Freight
Rates.

1t is the plan of John E. Frost president
of the Commercial club, to start the move
ment for lower freight rates into this city
quietly by the selection of a committee Of
men thoroughly acquainted and in SYM
pathy with the needs of the city in this
respect, and to have the names of the
members of that committee kept secret
for awhile at least.
In this way it will be less difficult 10
secure the services of men who can do the
most for the cause of fairer treatment
from the railroads without fear of mis-
treatment at the hands of the same. 1t
was announced however this afternoon
that no decision had been reached about
the full membership of the committee
1t is evident that already many Of the
large Topeka shippers are really ignorant
of the injustice which they have received
at the hands of the transportation COM
panies, and the first duties of those who
are interested in the new move will be 10
educate them up to their needs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27

practically all the coal held by the deal
ers cost them less than S. a ton. There
was 2 lot of talk at first about the
grasping sbarons" and operators" who
were squeezing the helpless populace.
and all the rest of it. That pleased
everybody-almost. A good shot at a
baron Is in order nearly every time.
But it transpired, after a while, that the
big operators had not raised their prices
at all during the five months of the
strike. 1t transpired. in fact, that they
mad been able to ship very little anthra-
cite at any price Then followed, nat
urally. the disclosure that the dealers
had in store a much larger supply than
they were willing to admit, and with
this went the inevitable conclusion that
they were working the public for exor-
bitant profits. OF course, the usual
fairy tale of the wicked and remorse-
less Spectator was trotted out. DR..
Jekyll was all right; the trouble was
MIR. Hyde The dealers wished nothing
more than to sell coal to their custom
ers at the usual modest profit of 40 or
80 per cent. but the heartless Speculat-
ors would not let them. And so on.
Like an oasis in the desert appears
the statement of one dealer who in
duiges in sort OF orgy Of candor- He
says to the newspapers: We have
charged any price we could get" This
OPEN hearted pirate has not a word to
say against the cruel barons or the ava
ricious spectators. He knows that
there is nothing in it. He is simply a
frank, outs0oken skinf1int who knows
a good thing when he sees it and is not
too squeamish to work it for all that it
is worth. He charged any price he
could geti" He saw the situation as it
was, and he coined it into money for
his purse. The others did the same
thing exactly. but lied about it, and
wept over their inability to get more.
All this talk about the ravaging coal
barons, the insatiate spectators. and
the wasting expense of keeping OPEN
during the long five months of idleness,
was mere stupid and transparent men
dacity. Investigation coupled with
such confessions as we have mentioned,
has disposed of the silly fairy tales with
which the New York coal dealers have
been RECALLING their defenseless victims.
1t is now known to everybody that the
coal which has been sold at SIS, $40 and
S22 a ton cost the dealers originally less
than S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27


Just think over the coal strike situation,
and thatil make you hot
The man with a clear conscience doesn't
mind if people see through him.
It's all right for a man to be a crank
If he can be turned to advantage.
Hoax-''You can't do anything without
money" Joax-"Oh, yes, you can get in
to debt.
Some men sleep well because they have
good consciences. and others because they
haven't any.
The difference between the farmer and
filthy lucre is that one tills the soil and
the other soils the till.
In love absence may make the heart
frow fonder, but the fellow who wants d
sure thing WI try presents.
do you think you can support my
daughter on $40 week." sternly asked
the old man. "Ill try, If that's the best
you can do" unhesitatingly answered
young Nerver.
Dis is an uncharitable world" remark
ed the philosophical hobo Yep" re-
sponded his companion. About de only
thing people want to give a Teller now
adays is work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
APPEALS TO
ALL CHURCHES.
Five Year Meeting of the So
cIety of Friends
Asks Christian People Every
where to Lend a Hand.
CALLS A CONFERENCE
To Meet in Washington, ID. c.,
in Year 1906
To Formulate Plan for United
Action
CALLS A CONFERENCE
Looking to the Suppression of
Liquor as a Beverage.


Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 27-The five
year meeting of the Society of Friends
today al their closing session issued the
following call to all the Christian
churches:
To the Various Christian Bodies in the
United States.
Dear Brethren in Christ:-We are con-
fident in the belief that the concensus of
opinion of the protesting Christians of
our land is opposed to the evils of Ii
quor traffic and we find a want of CO.
operation in practical effort to give eff
feet to this opposition because none of
the propositions heretofore have met the
approval of the general judgment OF
Christian people. We recognize that
this is the case in our own body and
we believe it is likewise true of others
AS a result. the church exerts far less
influence than it should to prevent the
evils produced by this great cause OF
poverty and crime and which also is
most serious obstacle to the spread of
the gospel.
We are deeply impressed with the
conviction that an earnest effort should
be made to ascertain in what way
Christians can exert 2 united influence
in this cause and by what means they
may work together. Upon what propo-
sition can we obtain a practical agree
ment? We frankly confess that are we
not competent to solve the problem. but
we believe that by united action and a
pray 6Ilu1 SGSAnB LOT ulNlue SHHSnl-
ment, with Willingness to approach
the subject with an open mind, the uni
ted church may find a way by which we
can serve the cause of Christ and the
good of mankind in seeking the ulti-
mate elimination of this StupendOuS
evil We therefore invite the governing
bodies of the various denominations of
Christians in the United States to ap-
point delegates to represent them in a
conference to be held in the city of
Washington, to begin on the second
Wednesday of March in the year 1906.
The decisions of this conference should
and therefor it is unnecessary to indi-
cate any limit to the proposed represen-
| tations.
We issue this invitation with an humble
realization of the smailhess of our body
as compared with many others, but WE
do it under a deep sense that this duty
has been laid upon us ai,.l that God will
use the proposed instru mentality for the
accomplishment OF great sooi to mankind
! and for the glory of Ills nam
Believing thar this proposits IN will meet
with your approval and practical coop
Grafton we have appointed James Wind Ct
1 Mount Kisko. n W Rufus NJ. Jones
Haverfocd, Pa; Timothy Nicholson, Rich
mond Ind; Benjamin F. Truenlood Bos
ton and Edmund Stanley, Wichita, Kan.
with one additional delegate from each OF
eleven yearly meetings 10 represent us al
the conference
In the faith and love of Jesus Christ, we
are your friends.
EDMUND STANLEY.
Presiding Clerk.
"ELLWOOD o. ELLIS.
Recording Clerk
Signed by direction of the committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
DEMoCRACY,s FUTURE.

It seems inevitable that the result of
the approaching election will have much
to do with shaping the future of the
Democratic party. A contest between
the factions for supremacy is in prog
ress, although nothing is being said
about it.
If Tom Johnson shall win in Ohio and
Hill lose in New York. it is almost GER
tain that the Bryan wing will continue
to dominate the Democratic councils.
If on the other hand Hill shall succeed
in electing Coler and the Republicans
shall triumph over the Cleveland mayor
in the Buckeye state, it will be almost
impossible to prevent the old crowd
from assuming direction of party affairs.
If both Ohio and New York should
be won or lost at the same time. then
there would necessarily remain a stu
alton not differing greatly from that
prevailing at present and harmonious
action would be as far away as ever.
The complexion of the next house is of
little consequence to the Democrats
when compared with the importance OF
the results in New York and Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
COBURN'S NEW ROOMS.
Secretary of State Board of Agr1cul-
ture Is "at Home.o

Secretary Coburn is getting settled in
the permanent quarters which have been
assigned to the state board of agricul-
ture, the ones directly beneath the gov
ernor's offices in the state house. There
are three large rooms and some smaller
ones. The agricultural museum will be
located in the north room just south of
the elevator. Only those things in the
old museum which pertain to agricul-
ture will be mounted in this room Tho
stuffed animals, bugs, snakes and curl
osities have been turned over to the
academy of science.
In the large center room the various
assistants will have their desks. This
will be the main room of the suite. The
south room is Secretary Coburns pri-
vate office. 1t has been finely carpeted
and newly furnished. Most of the avail
able space around the walls is taken up
with new book cases.
Off from Secretary Coburn's private Of
flee is a small room which will be used
as a packing room for sending out reports.
There is storage vault in connection with
it and a window opening directly upon
drive outside which will be convenient in
receiving and sending out large quantities
of books. The coming edition Of the pien-
NAL report of the board of agriculture will
weigh 40 tons and it Is no small task to
wrap and send out each book separately
in such an edition as that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
First OF Series Will Be Given Next
Monday Evening.

The lecture course which is to be given
in Topeka this winter under the auspices
of the City Fedora ton of Clubs includes
three attractions, which may be heard
fer one dolisr, the price of one season
ticket. Mrs. Bertha kunz Bakers is the
first engagement. for Monday. Novenl-
Der 3. Mrs. Baker is a dramatic reader
of national renown. She will read jus
tin Huntley NeCarthy's play, IF 1
Were King il T5peisa.
The second Ct tte series will be Mrs.
Charles Rhoses with her illustrated lee
ture on Wagner and the Bayreuth fes-
tival in February. Accompanying Mrs
Rhodes is NJ. A5olrh Close, a concert
pianist of ability, Who illustrates the lee
lures with Characteristic passages from
the Wagnerian operas. Miss Ida Ben
fey, whose entertainment viii he the
third of the series and comes in March.
is a story teller. and will probably give
Les Misera bles'' here.
A limited number CT course tickets
have been printed for the three lectures,
and after these are disposed of single
admission tickets will be sold at SO cents
each. The seats are on sale this week at
several Kansas avenue stores, and may
also be secured from Mrs. H. o. Carney,
Mrs. C. o. Knowles or Miss Lucy King
mo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
MORGAN ON RACK.
Secretary of Gas Company Is Once
More Testifving

It was II o'clock this morning before
the attorneys could get together to re-
sumo the taking of testimony in the dol
lar gas case, and at noon the case was
adjourned till 2 o'clock. H. s. Morgan.
former secretary of the gas company, is
still under cross-examination, and indi-
cations are that the city will not be
through with this witness for several
days.
Eugene Hagan, one of the attorneys
for the gas company was present at the
hearing for the first time this morning.
Charles Blood Smith was also in at
tendance, as usual
j. D. Mcfarland, counsel for the city,
devoted all the time this morning to And
ing out from what sources Secretary Nor
gan derived the figures and information
contained in the daily register and journal
Of the company. He took up each page 81
the company's books which has been offer
ed in evidence and questioned closely az to
what part of the record thereon had bsen
furnished to Mr.. Morgan by other en-
ployeS Of the company.
The attorneys for the city are very reti-
cent regarding their plans. They will not
say how many gas experts have been en-
gagged by the city to assist in the case,
but it is believed that several strong wit
nesses are to be placed on the stand wien
the company is through with its testi-
nCny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
LOCAL MENTION.

Miss Bessie Grooms of Wamego, has
entered Stormont hospital to take train
ing to become a professional nurse.
Eric Wahlgren of Fort Riley, who
was injured some time ago by his horse
falling On him, is visiting his mother at
421 Elmwood avenue.
The ladies of the First Christian
church will give a social and debate at
the home of DR.. Graves, Sol Clay street,
Tuesday evening. The subject for the
debate will be Shall old bachelors be
taxed?"
Judge Hazen decided this moraing
that Anderson &. Co had no right to
sue the Rock Island railroad in Justice
Disney's court The same ruling has
been made before.
There will be a meeting of those in
terested in the project of a minstrel
show between now and the holidays, at
evening.
The statement in the story of Mrs.
Patrick Mullady's charges against May
or Parker and the To-eka Joints that
she was left a widow without resources
was evidently a mistake as the family
is quite well provided for.
Judge Hazen this morning decided
that Mrs. Jennie Henderson was not en-
titled to divorce from George Hender-
son.
Judge Hazen this morning refused to
grant a new trial IN the case F. Lewis
who secured a judgment against the
received by a crane falling.
Mrs. Leslie Bard and her little son
from Florence. are visiting in Topeka
Mr.. Bard formerly lived in this city. He
is now interested in a large cattle ranch
| near Florence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27

The New York Evening Post has re-
ceived from A professors of economics
and kindred subjects in colleges east of
Chicago replies to four questions pro-
pounded by it. Twenty-Five out of 80
of the professors say that in their opin-
ion the powers of congress to control or
restrain trusts have not been exhausted
by the Sherman law. Twenty-three out
of AZ favor amendments to the constitu-
ton to give congress additional power.
Forty-one out of 40 favor the reduction
or repeal of duties on articles whose
production in this country is controlled
by monopolies. Twenty-four out of SO
favor the appointment of a tariff COM
mission to prepare changes for the con-
sideration of congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27
CLEARS THE BOARD.
Figures Show Nearly All Pur-
chases Made in Kansas.

Some time ago the Topeka CONNER
cial club passed a resolution censuring
the state board of charities and correc-
tons for purchasing supplies outside of
the state Major T. ]. Anderson, secre-
tary of the club, requested State Aud
itOr Cole to formulate a statement to
show the comparative purchases made
by the board of Kansas merchants and
those outside the state. About the same
time H. J. Allen. president of the
board. made the same request, and
Auditor Cole has done So
THE figures were taken from the
vouchers which have been paid" said
Mr. Cole today, and they show that
only 7.3 per cent of the total purchases
by the board have been from outside
dealers. During this administration over
100000 has been spent with Kansas
merchants, while only $4,000 has been
sent outside. OF this amount 1 presume
$4,000 was spent for hard maple floor
ing which Kansas lumber men did not
carry. 1t has been used for ref1ooring
state buildings where the old pine floors
have worn out"
The figures of the purchases for each
institution both within and outside the
state during the past four years is as
follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-27

Resolved, by the Occult Science club of
Topeka, Kansas. it being the only Spirit
ualist organization in the said city of To-
peka and numbering several hundred
members, that we have heard with re-
greet of the outrage that was perpetrated
on one of our N ediums. Mrs Inez Wag-
ner. at her rooms on Tuesday of last week
while holding a trumpet seance. and we
denoGnce the same as cowardly. malicious
and dastardly and knowing Mrs Wag-
ner as we do, believe the statements of
the man White that he saw Mrs Wagner
with the trumpet to her mouth as malic-
iously false and untrue and was only a
part of a scheme by her rivals and en-