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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14

To be good. To do things because
they will spread peace and happi-
ness. To sit in the shade, seeking
simple ways to a simple end. These
are worth trying for. In them may
be found vastly more than in some
of the Shower walks Of life. For
what we have in front of us now is
only what we shall leave behind
then. And it is something to live in
such manner that no monument is
needed to keep one in memory. 1t
is something to live SO we'll, to do
such good that when we come face to
face with the great Ruler, He shall
take us by the hand and welcome us.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14

Love is u~nequally
K with sickness.
Labor is 1ightened by
love, but love cannot
lighter pain or relieve
it. Many a man looks
on at his wife's suffering
willing to do anything
to aid her and able to do
nothing.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14
THE GATHERER.
SELECTED WITH CARE
FROM THE SCOPE
OF A DAYS
READING.

Ii You r Gay or Grave; In joy
or in S0rr0W w; I'm doubt or abid-
ing in faith; La haste or with
Time to Spare, 1t is Hoped
That You will Find Some
thing Here to Repay you
For the PArtlSaI of
This Column.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14

Oh. little boat on TIE tossing wave.
sing loud for love, for l love him so!
Oh, tall pine tree in the hadows grave,
Sing loud for love, fer Ilove him so!
The little waves kiss the cleaning sand,
l laugh in the sun on the joyful land;
Beloved.one clasp of your strong young hand;
The world is fair. for [ love you so!
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14

Summer Boarder-Your advertise
ment stated that you didn't have any
mosquitoes here. Why, man it's full
of 'em.
Hiram Hayric-Wal, we didn't
have any when [ put that there adj
vertisement in Their paper. He put
the add in in April.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14
SMALLPOX on THE CAR
Disease on a Brooklyn Trolley
Turned It Into a Prison.
DOCTOR DETECTED ITS PRESENCE.

All the Passengers Were Made Pris-
Oners by DIR. e. ID. Johnson, Who
Stood With Els Eack to the Door
and Would Allow None to Leave.
Vaccinated at
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14

Albert j. Lonney of the Law School
Performs q Task That Has Dehed
Generations - Pope, Bryant md
L~ongfellow Found 1t Beyond Their
Great Talent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
KANSAS COOP sHow1Na.

It's a poor year when the farms of
Kansas do not show up in good shape.
One crop may fall short, but some other
win make it up. This is safe rule
which will probably be proved by an ex-
ception once in a while-but no one
looked for the remarkable increase in.
the aggregate value of the products of
Kansas farms that was shown by the
annual summary made public by Secre-
tary Coburn yesterday
In view of the shortage in the wheat
crop and that there has been tremen-
dous falling off in the number of swine
in the state, with little increase in cat
tie, it was not to be expected that the
aggregate wealth produced by the farm
ers for the year 1902 would show much
of an increase over last year, and there
would have been little surprise if it had
shown an actual falling off. Last year
Kansas produced the greatest crop of
wheat ever produced by any similar
area of country on the face of the globe.
This year the crop was 40 per cent. less.
but the corn made up the shortage, and
the total value of all farm products was
greater by more than Is per cent, or
$56, 900, 900, than last year with its great
wheat crop.
After all the talk about the wheat
shortage this year it is considerable
larger than anticipated. The elevator
men and grain dealers estimated at har
vest time that it would not be over 40
million bushels. Instead of that it is
over "a million bushels
Secretary Coburn's report shows that
Kansas farmers have been getting rich
the past year, Notwithstanding the
alleged wheat failure" The total value
of all farm products this year is $4O4,-
25S,3s1 There are approximately 100000
families in the state, SO that the farms
have produced almost 81 $50 for every
family in the state. If it were possible
to find the exact number of farmers
families in the state it is probable that
the figures would show that the farms
have produced an average of $1,000 for
every farmers family.
Which is certainly not poor show
ine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22

when it comes to sustaining the speed
for considerable distances. Moreover,
automobiles can be stopped quicker
turned quicker. and guided more accur-
ately than horses. 1t is proper that the
nature of the vehicle should be consid-
cred in fixing the speed
1t is claimed with much truth that
with a speed limit of Is miles, the auto
mobiles will be able to travel as fast
as they please without anybody being
able to prove that they are violating
the ordinance No doubt horses are
speeded far beyond the limit on the
streets of Topeka, and there is probably
not bicyclist in town who at some
time has not propelled his machine fas-
ter than a mile in six minutes. 1t is
difficult to enforce a speed limit law.
but no more difficult in the case of auto
mobiles than with any other vehicle. A
good deal must be left to the honesty
and judgment of the occupant of the au-
tomobile. If anybody gets hurt, and
a damage suit results. the jury is likely
to take it for granted that the automo
bilist is to blame
AS the automobile becomes more COM
mon and its needs as well as its objec-
tionable features become familiar. it is
probable that a new automobile ordi-
nance will have to be adopted. but for
the present the proposed ordinance COW
ers the case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
MRS. NArroN,s LArEsr..

Mrs Carrie Nation has startled New
York by publicly rebuking the women
members of the Vanderbilt family for
their lavish display and immodest dress.
No doubt nearly every one will think
that Mrs. Nations only purpose was a
desire for notoriety, but it is doubtful
if she even knew the names of the peo-
pie she denounced, and certainly she did
not consider the consequences. She saw
something that ran counter to her idea
of propriety and did not hesitate to ex
press her opinion straight in the faces of
the people who had offended her. 1t is
simply a. part of the disposition of the
Kansas joint smasher to assail things
she believes to be wrong and she never
stops to question the legality or pro-
priety of the proceeding.
There are very few men with the
moral and physical courage of Mrs
Nation and SO long as she does things
in her violent and original way she will
not be looked upon with favor. People
do not like to be shocked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
AUTOMOBILE ORDINANCE.

By the passage of the automobile ordi-
nance as proposed by the streets and
walks committee of the city council, the
first official municipal recognition will
be @iven to that great modern institu-
ton, the "horseless carriage
1t is claimed. and truly. by the own
ers of automobiles. that machines of
this character have come to stay. At
present they may be passing through
the ordinary stage of the bicycles de-
velopment, but in some FORM the horse
less carriage is certain to be rapidly
growing factor in modern civilization
This being the case. it is proper that
certain reasonable restrictions should be
imposed, similar to those imposed upon
other vehicles.
Speed limit IS the most natural thing
for first consideration Ordinances are
already in existence limiting the speed
of horses and bicycles to what is con-
sidered the maximum of safety. The
limit for horses is six miles per hour;
for bicycles ten miles per hour Under
the proposed new ordinance. automo-
biies are limited to eight miles per hour
on Kansas avenue and Is miles aer
hour on all other streets.
This seems to be fair restriction,
though some were in favor of limiting
automobiles to six miles per hour the
same as other vehicles Automobiles
are naturally as much faster than bicyc-
les as bicycles are faster than horses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
WHEAT NEW SHOPS MEAN.

Now that the new Santa Fe shop plant
has been formally dedicated it is, a time
for Topeka and Kansas to give pass
ing thought regarding the Significance
of such an institution. It is one of the
biggest shops operated by any American
railroad-or will be when 1t is finished.
This latttr statement relating to it
may seem strange. following that in
which it is said that the institution shas
been dedicated. But while the bulk of
the work has been done on this enor-
nous enterprise which means so much
to this city and state, there are to be
constant additions for coming months.
1t will probably be almost a year before
the plant will be doing it's full output.
but new building, transferring of old
and the placing of new equipment will
give employment to many hands. Then
when the new shops are finished and
commence running full force, it will be
Of still greater significance and value
to the city of Topeka, in a commercial
waxy.
1t is improbable that the majority of
the residents of Topeka and surrounding
country appreciate to the fullest the
meaning of the new shops. They are to
be so much greater and more modern
proper comparison. The difference may
be judged about this way: in the old
much of the work has been done and is
being done by hand that In the new will
be handled by electrical power. This
does not mean. though, that the num-
Der of employees when the new shops
are completed will be less than while
the old has been in operation. There are
other conditions which will require that
the number be increased probably one
third The entire plant is to be mod
ernized, and placed upon a basis of com
pleteness that will render it as near in
dependent as any, perhaps. in the coun-
try. AS the country in the southwest
ern part of the United States develops,
the American possessions across the
seas become more important, of course
the advancement of the great transcon-
tinental railroads is a necessary conse-
quence, and hence the necessity for
greater facilities for building and keep
ing built the machinery and rolling
stock with which the traffic is to be
moved. Thus it is easily reasoned what
the whole thing means to Topeka We
should hope that the people appreciate
this to it's fullest extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
NEW YORK 1pIocY.

Most of the blatant idiocy in the tele-
graphic news is under a New York
headline. yet Kansas gets the reputa
ton of being the scene of all the Fool
Tricks.
A recent dispatch from New York re-
lating to the resignation Of the pastor
Of fashionable church on account of
a church row growing out of his oppo-
sition to the fashion of open-work
stockings for women beats any of the
Governor Bailey marrying stories or
other Kansas sensations. The same dis
patch relates that a marriage was re-
Gently broken off when the bride and
groom were at the Justices Office where
the ceremony was to take place because
the man learned that his sweetheart
wore open-work stockings. He said he
did not approve of them, and demanded
that the girl choose between him and
vanity in the form of drop-stitch
hosiery. The young woman said that
her stockings were dearer to her than his
love, and the wedding was declared off.
Droo-stitch hosiery seems, for some
reason, to haunt the imagination of the
New York newspaper writer's and CORE
spondents. Lately there has been a
great deal in the papers about Mary
MacLane's stockings. In the famous
iitany in her STORY of Mary MacLane,' .
the Butte, Montana. girl prayed to be
delivered from all women who wear
drop-stitch hosiery, but now it seems
she is of that prescribed class herself.
and her stockings are described as be-
ing of the laciest and most cobwebby
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fron the Atchison Globe.

LFrom the Atchison GIobe.l
Don't let a book agent decide your
literary taste
Seven out of ten women die of broken
hearts, according to the neighbors.
A Californian isn't jealous of his wife,
but he is jealous of his climate.
You want to keep your eye on a man
who banks his money in his wiee's
name.
A compliment should be handled very
carefully. But when it does strike
right, it goes deep.
Occasionally you meet girl who
somehow looks as though she'll go away
some day and become a missionary.
How tenderiy you think of the little
mannerisms of those you like, and how
you dislike those of the people yOL
have no use for.
An Atchison young man is AN awful
ly nice fellow but the fact remains that
he has no sense, and will never amount
to anything.
When a certain Atchison girl has mar
ried a certain Atchison man they can
count up just 81 kin who will expect to
be invited to dinner.
An Atchison girl carries a top note to
such a height her friends are alarmed
every time she sings that she may burst
her corset strings.
This shining in society may be all
right, but the downtown side of it is
that those who shine brightest are most
disagree at their work next day.
It is becoming a serious fad in Atchi-
son for young mothers to wrap gauZy
stuff over their heads and shirt waists,
hold their naked babies in their arms
and be photographed as the Modern
Madonna 1t is the very latest thing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
JAYHAWKER lots.

Hazelnuts sell for 81 bushe1 at Atch-
ison.
1t was a brazen deed for an Ottawa
thief to steal brass even from the ice
man.
In a hog case at Atchison involving
less than $40, the third court trial is be-
ing held.
The coal famine isn't worrying Coffey
county. Farmers there have ears of
corn with ten cobs.
A long linen buster has been lost at
Burlington. If returned by Easter no
question will be asked.
Mr.. Kohrns of Oklahoma is buying
Independence real estate. OF course he
is taking it by the foot.
Belle Springs has new creamery
building, the distctive feature of
which is a 70-foot chimney.
Grasshoppers are not rushing south
from Rush county as are the ducks.
much to the farmers sorrow.
Wild red foxes are very plentiful in
Atchison county. They make a good
alibi for colored chicken thieves.
The man that brought 61z pound
radish to Columbus this week mentioned
that his strawberry beds were white.
A Mcpherson merchant has a 100
pound pumpkin. What a Jolly Thanks
giving Jack O'Lantern that viii make.
Snake eaters consider Abilene a poor
town for their business. They are al
lowed to show SO long as they don't de-
YOUR.
Mr.. Gander is. at the head of Baker
athletics. But his work is so smooth
that he has not yet been termed a
goose.
Near Lindsborg dwells sailor who
has twice visited Jerusalem, sailed threa
years on the Black Sea and was in the
Crimea war.
One of the prominent lady members
of the Neodesha Don't Worry club
has left town. The rules and regula-
tions were too strict.
For ways that are dark Chanute is
to be commended. But it is well to re-
member that damage suits often cost
more than street lights
A Parsons citizen who subscribed SIS
towards a church and then refused to
pay has changed his mind after two
years of court litigation.
A Muscotah man killed seven black
squirrels recently. If his wife doesn' t
soon appear in a set of Sable furs she
has lost a grand opportunity.
A couple came back to the Dickinson
county court to secure divorce the day
following the marriage. They evidently
believed in a short love and a merry
one
Two Cottonwood Falls nimrods aver
aged 80 ducks a day on a weeks hunt.
But think of the woe ahead for their
wives who will be compelled to clean
the birds.
Three duck hunters were upset in the
Cottonwood river and their guns went
to the bottom While they chung shiv-
ering to the boat hundreds of mallards
and teal flew over quacking derisively
at them
A veteran of the civil war, nearly &c
years of age. hale and hearty. is still
carrying a rural route out of Sharon
Springs This illustrates that few men
die from overexertion and that work Is
almost as harmless as a French duel
An enterprising Lindsborg woman in
vited a household of guests for the day
while the disguised husband took din
ner down town. When he sneaked home
for supper she scornfully pointed to the
cupboard and went on admiring her five
new quilts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
BRIDE REFUSED TO "OBEY.
Trouble Followed and Now There Is a
Suit for Limited Divorce.

New York, Nov. 22.-Cruelty ranging
all the way from a kick in the face and
the tearing of his nightshirt off his back
in the course of a bedroom squabble.
down to an unwillingness to avail her
self to any adequate extent of the really
excellent bathing facilities in their home
is among the charges brought by Ho-
ratio Victor Newcomb. former president
of the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
against his wife in the suit which he is
bringing for a limited divorce. He adds
that she has abandoned him. but he al
leges that before taking this final step,
he had to have bed specially made,
six feet wide, owing to the frequency
with which his wife kicked him out of
anything of smaller dimensions
Newcomb hints that such a storm may
have been brewing over his head from
the first hour of his married life, for
fact that Mrs. Newcomb refused at the
outset to obey him.
tAt the time of the marriage of the
plaintiff and defendant" says the com
plant, lat the residence of her father,
]. L. Danforth, the ceremony, being at
the holy altar of God, and under the
Episcopal service, was made a n1Ockery
and a travesty upon the sacredness of
the marriage VOWS by the defendant, by
her absolute refusal to follow the min
lister in the service in using the word
obey The defendant did refuse to
signify her obedience to her husband,
contrary to the custom of said marriage
ceremony"
In addition to the suit for divorce Mr..
Newcomb is plaintiff in another suit
against his wife for the recovery of
100000, the amount of a trust fund
which he set aside for the benefit of
Mrs Newcomb on the distinct under
standing that should there ever be a
recurrence of a mental trouble with
which he once was afflicted she and his
children should take care of him. and
net commit him. to a public institution
or to the care of strangers. Mr.. New
comb says he was committed to an in
stitution for the care of the insane at
the instance of his wife and in violation
of this agreement in 1898.
Mrs. Newconb in her answer says her
husband became SO violent she had to
yield to the advice of friends and family
physicians and put him under the care
of others. She also says that by an
agreement entered into by Mr.. New
comb in 1901 he is debarred from any
recovery of the trust fund.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
RODE IN A FIERY CHARIOT.
Occupants of an Automobile Did Not
Know Gasoline Tank Was Ablaze.

East Orange Nov. 22.-With the en-
tire rear of their big automobile ablaze
from a leak in the gasoline tank, Mr..
and Mrs. Angus Sinclair of No. n Beech
street, this city, rode two miles. through
Springfield yesterday afternoon without
being aware that there was fire under
them. 1t was only when Postmaster
George Mcdonald, who saw the vehicle
approaching like a meteor and ran out
into the road waving his arms that it
dawned upon Mr.. and Mrs. Sinclair that
something was wrong. They alighted
from the vehicle with considerable
haste.
It was then discovered that the gaso-
line tank was ablaze. and it was only
after vast quantity of water had been
dumped on the automobile that the
flames subsidized leaving the expensive
machine a sad wreck. Mr.. and Mrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22

4Qldl . . . pa O.VV
The saving of s2,121 is made because
only three judges are required for the
election board instead of five judges and
clerks because there is no expense for
ballots, and because the number of
polling places in the city can be reduced
from 81 to u. This is allowing the
judges 81 per day for their services. AS
there is no counting of votes, this is
liberal Under the present system, the
judges and clerks work all day and all
night and usually get about 81 apiece.
The law passed by the last legislature
authorizes any county or city to adopt
the machine voting system in any ward
or precinct thereof. The law says in re-
gard to cities:
1T shall be lawful for the mayor and
council of any city, or the township
board of any township within this state
to determine upon the purchase and use
of automatic ballot or voting machines
at all general or primary elections to be
held within said city or township. or
any one or more wards thereof
The proper method of procedure
would no doubt be for the city council
by resolution, to determine to buy ana
use voting machines. This would then
open the field for the examination OF
machines. There are no doubt plenty of
manufacturers who would be willing to
submit their machines to a test in the
spring election. It is estimated that
two machines to each ward in the city
will do the work in that ward This
would cut down the number of precincts
about one-half.
The only obstacle which stands in the
ways is the first cost of the machines.
Election Commissioner Williams says III
regard to this:
The latest and best machines cost
$500. If the city should decide to buy
twelve of them. the price would prob
ably be considerably less than that.
believe that for six or eight thousand
dollars the city could make the change,
and it would save enough in a few years
to pay for the machines. besides elimi-
mating almost all possibility of contest
ed elections, defective ballots and bad
feeling generally. I want the council to
get interested in this plan. 1t is certain
to be adopted before long, and why not
now?''
Mayor Parker said: There's no doubt
that the machine system of voting is
what we are coming to. I would like
to see it adopted in Topeka The only
question is that of expense. 1t would
be difficult for the city to pay out such
a large sum as is necessary to institute
the system
City Attorney Spencer said: ct am
not familiar with voting machines but
as understand them. they are all right,
and are what we are certainly coming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

TFrom the New York Press.]
The straight and narrow path is slip
perry as well.
A woman who doesn't want to have
babies either is not married or ought
not to he.
TIE problem of parents is how to keep
girls innocent without letting them sui
fer through ignorance.
When a girl puts on long dresses she
puts off simple innocence that is the
most beautiful of earthly nantes.
A woman gets more fun out of plan
ming things that never come off than u
man does in enjoying these that do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22

A local option election on the liquor
question was held in Tioga, Rapides
Parish, La. last month. The town has
many registered voters but only one of
them had complied with all the require
ments of the state suffrage laws, paying
the poll taxes two years in advance. He
cast his vote in favor of granting a Ii
cense, and made TioEa wet to the con-
sternation of a majority of the town.
who are prohibitionists. The election
has since been decided to be legal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22

to sooner or later. If the city could af-
ford it. it would be a good change to
make,
Several councilmen who were inter-
viewed expressed themselves in a very
similar manner, the only argument
against the voting machine being that it
will cost a large sum at the outset.