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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
WORKED THE RoADmAsrER.
Gang of Eobos Got the Best of a
Railway Official.

According to the Pittsburg Kan, Head
light. Roadmaster Andy Hadeen was VIC
umized in a provoking manner by a gang
OF men whom he had brought down to
work on the new at Piitsburg. Mr. I1a-
deem has been having a good deal of trcu-
bic getting men to work in TIE track de-
partment, and when nc found a small
bunch of seven lahorers in Chanute Thurs
day, who said they would go TO work in
the track gang here. he Immediately snap
ped them W. He came along with them
and gave them free transport TO this
city 50 as to be sure that they reached
here. They arrived on the passenger on
Thursday about noon When Mr. Hadeen
started to put them to work the men balx-
cd and declared that they would not go TO
work until they had their dinner AS they
were all broke. Mr.. Hadeen advanced eacn
of them the price of the meal and sent
them all to dinner. They never showed up
again. Some of them were seen in the
Kansas City Southern yards that RICH.
trying to beat their way out of town for
the south. They had evidently Joined the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19

come to Mr. Mitchell, who sat by his
wife's side, holding his little girl upon
his knee, while about him were clustered
his boys
When it came his turn his voice
trembled, and he appeared greatly
affected.
Il shall never forget this kindness, -
he said, "and 1 know it is not meant for
me personally. Indeed, if 1 thought that
there was anything personal in it would
protest most vigorously against it. 1
take it as a tribute to the noble army of
men and women laboring in the anthra-
cite fields of Pennsylvania.
Il shall carry your message to them,
and I know that they will be as deeply
touched as [ am"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
EARNED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Young Lady Teachers and Pupils
Husk Corn for a Farmer

The Conway Springs Star recounts an
interesting little story of how an in
domitable Kansas schoOlma am got
some books for her school room which
the district board would not. or could
not supply. The name of the little lady
is Miss Maggie Thorp. On the day
after Thanksgiving she borrowed a
couple of teams from two accommo-
dating farmers and then took her whole
school into the corn field of another
farmer who was willing to pay for all
the husking which the children might
do. BY night the lads and lasses
aided by their teacher, had earned IS. Sc
and the books were won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
cHANUTE SEEKS LIGHT.
Council Decides for 100 Street Lamps
and 5000 Incandescents.

Chanute. Kan. Dec 19.-Chanute is to
have electric lights. Pursuant to a call
issued isl I'd by the mayor FOR special meet
visibility of establishing an electric light
plant, the city fathers assembled at the
council chambers last evening and after
celebrating for less than hour CON
Guided that Chanute was too progressive
a city with too bright a future to remain
which VIC have been accustomed for the
past few years.
The plant decided upon provides 100
street lamps and 5000 incandascents and
viii cost approximately $35. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19

gang for the express purpose of getting
free transportation to Pittsburg. Mr.. Ha-
deem is out the price of the dinners as
we'll as being short seven men in his gang
here The trick is an old one, often re-
sorted to by INSCRIPTIONS men to get from
one part of the country to another but
Mr.. Hadeen had no suspicion that they
would work such scheme on him for
Pittsburg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
PASSING OF THE cANrEEN.
Number of Desertions from Fort
Leavenworth Alarming.

Leavenworth, Kas.. Dec. 19-The
number of desertions from the United
States army at Fort Leavenworth has
become alarning-over 40 assertions last
month. Colonel Miner, commanding. re
quested the opinion of noncommissioned
officers as to the cause for the trouble
Many attribute it to the abolition of tne
canteen and lack of amusement for en-
listed -aen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
Football At Denver New Year,s.

Boulder, Col, Dec .19.-Manager Moore
head. of the state preparatory football
team, has received telegram from Chi
cago, saying the Hyde Park-Colorado
prep game had been definitely arranged
to be played in Denver on New Years
dav.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19

this city until the first of the year, when
she will go to Chicago and enter a
teachers institute for training in Epec-
ial lines. She will return to Honolulu
the first of next September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19

story the kid had given at the sta
ton.
AS they walked out the door the SER
geant stood watching them: We'll.
wouldn't that roast your" he asked, in
search of sympathy.-St Paul Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
comnetent lawmakers WanIed.

The Selma Times calls upon the best men of it's county to get ready for service in the Legislature. It says the next Legislators of Dallas should be selected from list that includes such men as Mallory, Satterfleld, Boy kin. Ellis, Young, Moore and Hooper.
 This effort in Dallas should be equaled in similar efforts In the other sixty-five counties of the State, to the end that the next Legislature may be the very best that was ever convened In this State. It should be the best be- cause it will have more general laws to prepare and pass than any other Legislature of the State ever held. It Is but fair to say it will put the new constitution into operation-into full operation at any rate. All the classes of forbidden special legislation are to be provided for by general laws which the next Legislature is to prepare.
 The people therefore have right to expect that the very best, and even the busiest men in the State will con sent to serve in the next Legislature, no matter at what personal inconven- fence and sacrifice.
 Each county should therefore pick out it's best men and command them to serve in the next Legislature. The man who declines on account of pres sure of private duties should be told that such an excuse does not fit the present time. Alabama has a right to conscript her best citizens in this emergency, and no patriotic man will refuse to serve next winter when his services are called for. Pick out then your best men and compel them 10 serve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
Compulsory Primaries.

The Supreme Court of Mississippi has in a recent case decided that the Noel primary law is constitutional, and this is our sister State-our ad- vanced sister State-conventions have been abolished by law, just as nuisances in general are abolished, and all party nominations must be made in primaries. This places Mis- sissippi on the political picket line, Dlina, and far In advance of Georgia, with Alabama among the rear guard. But Alabama is coming along, and she may yet reach the picket line also. The Noel law may be enacted in fact In this State next winter, for political revolutions never go backward.
 All party nominations made in Mis- sissippi otherwise than in primaries are declared void by law, and such nominations cannot be placed on the DdllOI. SuC0 nominations nave no standing at all at the polls. This law was passed by the last Mississippi Legislature, and its constitutionality was questioned in beat nomination in Issaquena county, and a case there fore arose, whigh was carried quickly to the Supreme Court of the State, and the law has been declared consti. tutional.
 So popular is the law that it's au thor an4 promoter has become a can didate for governor, and will perhaps be Governor Ilongino's successor. He Is now a State Senator, and his prom thence in the State Is wholly due to his compulsory primary law. There is in fact no reason at all why the pri- mary system should not be recognized by law, and the convention driven out as a relic that the people have out grown. Mississippi has eclipsed in this respect even South Carolina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
1 et Us Get TOnetber.

If" says the Mobile Register, "the primary is to be held for the sake of the harmony of the party let us all avoid the use of harsh words in de scribing those who do not agree with us as to details. It Is an old Chinese wise saying: So act toward an enemy as if some day he may be friend" The advice of the Register is very good The time has fully come when all Democrats should get together, for hot campaign Is in sight. There is not to be walkover for any man. Even Governor Jelks may have an op. ponent, and there is at least one man who Is aching to crowd General Pettus out of his seat. The Age-Herald does not anticipate the defeat of either Gov ernor Jelks or Senator Pettus. but 1t foresees a warm campaign. It need not be. however. bitter or mud-sling- Ing campaign.
 Let us then prepare the way for 1t. The warmer the campaign the better if there be no dissatisfaction over the conditions under which 1t Is to be con. ducted. The State Convention has a difficult task on its hands, especially concerning the apportionment of rep resentation, and it needs all the sup. port that can be given It The com mittee will heed, as 1t ever has, the voice of the people in favor of a State primary, but when 1t comes to the selection of plan and settlement of details obstacles appear. and the ad- vice of the Register becomes valuable, wise and pertinent. Let us get to- gether with a view to securing the best possible result. The Anniston Hot Blast favors the Georgia plan, so does the Selma Journal, but the Montgom. cry Advertiser favors the plan adopted in South Carolina. Let the two plans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22

will discover that he has not lost a single conviction as to the iniquity and demoralization of lynch law. It Is anarchy pure and simple in public sense, and in an individual sense it is murder, and it will be so treated by Governor Jelks, as the cases in St. Clair, Elmore and Pike plainly show.
 The mercy he has shown two sets of lynchers then confined in the pen itentiary was due no doubt largely to the fact that the prisoners had been misled by a rotten public sentiment. Men had come to think that Judge Lynch was supreme, and that lynch ing bee could be held at any time without incurring personal risks. All see that no lynching bee can now be held in this State that will go unex- plained in the courts. Governor Jelks wrought this change and for it he deserves and will assuredly receive the highest credit from every intelli- gent man in the State.
 Let no one mistake Governor Jelks' pardons They indicate no change in his general position. He stands by law and orde-, and he will pursue any lot of lynchers who may bob up in this State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
A cottane and a Monument.

"The efforts which Camp Hardee, U. c. ", and Pelham Chapter, U. D. C., are making to erect a cottage for disabled veterans at the Confederate Home at Mountain Creek and a Confederate monu- ment in Capitol Park in this city should be crowned with success" said a public spirited citizen yesterday.
 ''I am a Southerner but was too young to serve in the war. l will gladly aid, however, so far as I am able, in the good cause of providing a cottage at the home and in erecting a monument here. With the ex-Confederates and the thousands of sons of veterans who live in Jefferson County, it should be an easy matter to raise the necessary funds.
 Birmingham is the only city In the South of any size that is without a Con- federate monument. It is without a monument of any sort This ought not to be. Our people are prosperous and we should give some of our thought and substance to things outside of material advancement A city without sentiment, public spirit and a love for the true and the beautiful will never take front rank. no matter how large or r1ch II may be- 1 come.
 "Richmtnd Is a model southern city. It is an uncommorly thrifty city from a commercial point of view and it Is also city of imposing monuments and ststely memorial churches. Houdon's 8 statue of Washington, Harts statue of Henry Clay. Crawfo-d's equos strian statue Of Washington. surrounded ny statues of Jefferson and other illustrious Virginians, the group costing $S500C0; Morcie's eques- trion statue of Robert E. Lee, a tower ing monument dedicated to the Confcd- crate soldiers and sailors, a statue of Stonewall Jackson. a statue of A. P. Hill. a II orume mt to the Howitzers these and other handsome monuments adorn Rich mond, The Jefferson. Davis arch will be erected within the reXt year. And besides its heroic statues. Richmond has a large Confederate museum. and will soor have a battle abbey. Birmingham cannot ex- pect to come up to historic old Richmond in respect to artistic memorials, but 1t can do something in this line. Let us make a ftart by erecting Confederate monument"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
Not Grand Stand Plays.

Governor Jelks has been exposed of late to unjust criticisms because of pardons granted to two lots of lynch CTS, the one from Elmore and the other from Washington county. The former were pardoned because they had been mislead by the leader of the mob, who Is now in the penitentiary, and the latter were pardoned after serving ten years in the penitentiary. The latter hung white man on ac- count of the then prevailing political excitement. The lynched man was a Populist.
 Those who assert or who think these pardons indicate any change in Governor Jelks as to the maintenance of law and order in this State will wake up some day to find themselves much mistaken. They will then see he has his backbone still with him in. tact and in vigorous condition. They
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
THE r1URT1UR OF THE WORLD.

between the people and their purposes. A canal at some point will be built maybe fifteen years hence," to quote Morgan, but time, short or long, will bring 1t to perpetuate the name of the Alabama Morgan.
 But for some five and twenty years Morgan has labored month by month, year after year for the Nicaragua route; and being gifted by a brilliant and mar velously receptive mind, he has como to know all that can be known concern ing that route and Panama alike.
 T am an old man." he said almost fiercely in his closing speech, but would save my country from a league with the convicts and scoundrels of the Panama swindle"
 It was noble to hear him say that nobler still to see him bent with years fighting upon the battle line between the people and the lust of the money power Now and then his voice of protest for the right rang out as clearly as 1t did for the right when first heard 1t in an Alabama grove six and twenty years before. His momentary impassioned tones recalled those other days when his voice against wrong was the clearest and greatest and sweetest in all Ala bama-the Alabama then staggering un- der the curse of bayonet, negro and white plunderer, even a worse curse this power of gold which has enabled "the young man from Wisconsin" to undo the life-work of a great man!
 You are young man." Morgan said to Spooner in that last trial of strength in the Senate. and Spooner, conscious that the ready votes were behind him, sneered a smile, his only way of produc- ing that which the kiss of angels brings to the lips of infants while they sleep.
 Morgan looked greater and nobler than ever before In my long observation of this most remarkable man of my time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
Twin Health Blessings.

Pure water and sewers, and both a-coming in this town! What town more blessed, for what blessings arc rarer or more important? And both of these blessings will fall to us at one time, perhaps simultaneously.
 It is difficult to say which is the greater blessing. Sand or mechanical filtration will give us pure water. No one doubts the original purity of the water supplied to Birmingham. It comes from the depths of great hills, from deep sources, but in it's passage on the surface 1t encounters popula- tion and is accidentally defiled. All impurities thus cast into it are to be taken out-not by alum or other chemical devices, but by mechanical filtration of the latest and most ap- proved design That the work will be well done we need not doubt, for filtra- tion of any sort is expensive and the water company will take good care to make no mistake in a matter that costs much money. The plan adopted will be effective, and pure water will be supplied in this town, whether it be taken from the Cahaba or Five Mile Creek. In either case filtration will do the work of purification.
 Not less valuable perhaps is the county sewer system-a system that will drain and render wholesome the entire valley from East Lake to Bes- semer There is no more valuable and important work in hand than this, for | drainage underlies all health proposi- tions, all sanitation. There can be neither without it, and the county sewer insures both not in the city alone but throughout the entire val ley. This means that the entire com munity is to be wholesome and healthy-that disease is to be kept
 
 ham, if Bessemer will excuse the term.
 Given pure water and excellent drainage, what more in public way is needed among the big hills of lief ferson to insure high degree of pub lie health? Possibly year may elapse before the filtration plants and the county sewer are completed, but both are now assured, and we can well afford to wait a year for such blessings. There are few towns in any country, old or new, that will be | better fortified against disease when these two public improvements are completed, and we can well be patient | when We see them approaching day 1 by day hand in hand. The inaugura- i tion of the two may occur on one day, and that day should become holiday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
DEMOCRATS ARE SHY.
They Have No Candidate for Congress
 Against MT. Smith.

Carbondale, H., June 21.-For the second time in the present campaign the Democrats of the Twenty-fifth Hi nois district are without a candidate for Congress against Congressman George Smith. the Republican nomi. nee. The county primaries instructed the delegates for David w. Karraker who was an avowed candidate for three days before the congressional convention held in this city, who re- fused the use of his name.
 The convention named Reed Green of Cairo as the nominee, and he has just declined the nomination. The committee vyl meet the first of July and so far t one name is mentioned for the place, that of Walter Williams, a junior law student of the University of Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE
 SEABOARD AND OTHER TOPICS
IRMINGHAM continues to grow.

1@ BIRMINGHAM continues to grow. IO The Seaboard Air Line proper loN ty deal has been closed and - nearly s30OOOO in cash has been paid to holders of Birmingham real es- tate by the Seaboard for its terminal facilities here. The Seaboard people have practically finished their survey from Coal City to Birmingham and will be pre- pared to give out the contracts for the building of their line within the next few weeks. They are for the present however, prevented from building any thing within the city limits of Blrming- ham by virtue of the injunction suits which are still pending. These injunc- ton suits are a continuation of the con- test between the Seaboard and the old Belt Line. Since they were started. the Frisco System has bought the Belt Line, and to my surprise, the Frisco people seem to be inclined to continue the con- test of the former Belt Line owners.
 Vice-President Winchel of the Frisco is one of the best business men in this country. He Is an athletic young fel- low and Is possessed of a master mind, but I an rather inclined to the opinion that he is desirous of making too close a trade with the Seaboard people, Yet he is In no sense of the word set in his ways, and I believe that after further conference, MT. Wlnchell and Vice-Presi- dent Barr of the Seaboard will get to- gether on a basis which will be advant- ageous to both railroad systems and like wise to Birmingham.
 The matter now Is simply a question of whether or not the Belt Line owns the right to certain streets in Birmingham, or whether they simply own that part of the street which they occupy It may be that the courts will have to settle this matter finally. But whatever may be the verdict of the court, it Is only a matter of time before the two railroads involved will get together and work together.
 In this connection I want to say a word about Vice President J. M. Barr of the Seaboard. He has spent much time in Birmingham recently and he has come in contact with a large number of officials of the city and county, with the citizens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22

and with the railroad people. He im- pressed each and every man with whom he came in contact with his honesty of purpose, his straightforward dealings and his great executive ability. He Is q man who talks little but talks straight to the point He knows his business and he knows how to express himself. I have heard that he is one of the highest-salar- jed railroad officials of this country. In- deed I have been told that his salary Is not far short of that of the President or the United States. However, that is a matter which the public knows nothing about. The public with whom he has come in contact in Birmingham. how ever. knows him to be a man of excep- tional business ability.
 Speaking of the Seaboard and the Frisco and the Belt Line, l heard yester- sday that MT. Harry M. Atkinson, who was the principal owner of the Belt Line ard who sold 1t to the Frisco people, made a clear profit of something like $200, 900 out of the deal IL Is said that he paid $45O,O0O for the Belt Line and four blocks of Birmingham real estate and sold the same for s65000O.
 MT. Atkinson has also made great deal Of money out of financing the Bir- mingham Railway. Light and Power Company. He Is a Tan of only about 3S years of age, yet in the last ten years. am told, that in his Southern financial deals he has made in the neighborhood of S2, ,OOJ, 900 for himself. This may or may not be true, but 1t is certain that Mir. Atkinson is new rated by the commercial agencies in excess of s1,OOo,00o
 MT. Atkinson was he-e several days during the conferences between the seaboard and the Frisco people.
 That was a good speech which ex- President Grover cleveland made at the Tiden Club dinner last week. He out lined the policy of the Democratic party. which thousands upon thousands of good Democrats in this country agree to be good It was in generalities, but 1t can be brought down to specific terms, and properly edited can be made of much use to the Democratic party.
 It was a much better speech than Da-