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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-11


your boarding house?" Memo; but we
have pretty dumb waitress
Beating the devil around the stump Is
apt to give one vertigo of the morals.
A name on the handle of an umbrella
is not sufficient Identification at a bank
The fellow who has his salary raised
sometimes swamps himself trying to live
up to it.
When a woman has nerve in addition to
her other qualities. she is almost invinci-
BILE
The egotist might be power for good if
he would only judge other people by him
self.
There are actors who don't know as
much about neckties as they do about rail-
road ties.
Every man may have his field of useful
ness, but lot of them are too lazy to
cultivate 1t.
It is a mistake to imagine that all men
stand on an equal footing. lot of them
have had their legs pulled.
THE people who pay as they go are all
right" says the hotel clerk. but it's safer
to make some of them pay as they come
Blobbs-'I hear she has made up her
mind to go on the stage" Slobbs-.'Y es
but. don't think she'll be much of a go"
Henpeckke-"My wife is a terrible suf-
ferer." Wigwag-"Why. 1 thought she
merely had a cold" Henpeckke-"Ye
but she can't speak above a whisper"
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CANAL IN DANGER.
Senator Harris Says $4o,ooo,ooo APP
preparation May Lapse.

Washington, Nov. 11.-Complication
in the Panama canal Negotiations are OF
such frequent occurrence that they do
not occasion surprise any more, when
brought to public attention. Senator
Harris of Kansas, member of the SEN
ate committee on interoceanic canals, is
responsible for the latest suggestion
that may cause trouble if pending negO-
tiatiOns are much longer delayed. He
expressed the opinion today if President
Roosevelt does not exoend any OF me
$40, 900, 900 appropriated at the last SEES
sion of congress for the purpose of ac-
curing the property of the Panama
canal company before March 4 next, the
date of the expiration of the Fifty
seventh congress, the entire approprla-
ton will lapse, a new law Will have to
be enacted and a new appropriation
made If the negotiations are to be car
ried on after that time
Mr.. Harris declared that it was a well
known fact that all appropriations made
by congress, if not used in part or in
full, lapsed with the expiration of that
congress.
In discussing the likelihood that
payment of some portion of the $40 OO0,
900 would be made before the 4th of next
March, the senator called attention to
the fact that before the property could
be acquired a treaty would have to be
ratified by the senate of the United
States and by the legislative body of the
Colombian government. The Colombian
government had had no executive body
for three years, and is now in state Of
revolution. 1t would seem, therefore.
almost an impossibility for the president
to have treaty negotiated and ratified
by the two governments in the short
time now remaining before the expird-
ton of the present congress
While not desiring to be placed in
positive position on the subject, the SEN
ator expressed the belief that to have
any of the $40 900, 900 used for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the validity of the
| title, for instance, such as paying the
expenses of the attorney general to
Paris, would not validate the appropria-
| ton, which, he believes can be drawn on
only in accordance with the terms of
the act making the appropriation-for
the purchase of the property and begin
ming the construction of the canal
Whether or not the administration
will take the same view of the availa-
bility of this appropriation after the ex-
piration of the present congress is a
question which officials decline to an
Swer in a positive way. Attorney Gen
eral Knox considers it a question which
1t would not be proper for him to an
swer. Comptroller TraceweH of the
treasury replied, when asked regarding
the same point: L can give you the
rule. but I can not apply it, for the rea-
son that It is a matter uDon which I
may be called upon to pass The rule
is that annual or continuing appropria-
tions must be expended within the year,
or there must be a proper contract made
for their expenditure. or they lapse with
the congress which made them. This
rule does not apply to an appropria ton
which is not a continuing or annual
one
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FRANCHISE SACRED.
President Says Negro Shall Not Be
Driven from Polls.

Washington, Nov. lit is announced
that Senator Pritchard of North Carolina
is coming to Washington to discuss the
negro situation in the south with Presi-
dent Roosevelt and to submit a public
statement which he is preparing in de-
Tense of the action of the Republicans of
North Carolina in excluding the negroes
from their recent state convention When
Senator Pritchard took the lead in this
work of eliminating the negro from party
activity it was understood that he had
the sanction of the president. The devel-
opments in Alabama indicate that the
president has not changed his position
Postmaster General Payne has made
public the following statement:
The change in the office of collector of
internal revenue for the district of Ala
bama in nowise reflects the integrity CT
ability of Mr.. Bingham. the incumbent of
the office. 1t is one of those things which
occasionally happens in politics. The 20
sition taken by the Republicans of Ala
bama at their recent state convention, as
understood by the Republicans of the
north. is looked upon as a pervers1on OF
the fundamental principles of the Repuo-
sican party and Mr.. Bingham is in a
measure held responsible for that action,
hence the change.
Neither the administration nor the Re-
publican party of the north will stand for
the exclusion of any section of our people
nN reason of their race or color, when. IN
other respects. such persons have complied
with the laws and are eligible under the
law to full and free participation in po-
litical action and are of a high standard
of personal character
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WALL STREET TROUBLE
Market WeakenS Late Today
and Losses Are General.

New York. Nov 1.-THE stream of liqui-
dating sales in Wall street increased at
the decline and the market fell into disOr-
der late today. Amalgamated Copper was
carried down four points to 5515. Net
losses extended in St. Paul to 3ls, Louis
vile 3A. Southern Pacific 3, Lackawanna
934, Northwestern 9, Minneapolis, St. Paul
& Sault Ste. Marie preferred 4, Tennessee
Coal ). 4. s. Realty AS, Westinghouse
Electric T. and Sugar and General Electric
224. Supporting orders then prompted
short covering by the bears and Amalga-
mated Copper, Colorado Fuel, Sugar, st.
Paul, Southern Pacific. Louisville and New
York Central rallied point, Tennessee
Coal and NorthwesterE 4. The market
broke again in the final dealings some
stocks falling back to the lower. St. Paul
touched 176, a loss of 59s from last night
The closing was active and weak.
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WEBER DROPS OUT.
Fourth Ward Councilman Won't
Be Candidate for Mayor.

w. F. Weber. who has been consider
ed one of the leading candidates for the
Republican nomination for mayor, is out
of the race. One of Mr.. Weber's closest
friends said today:
Mr.. Weber will not be a candidate
He could not get the nomination. He
could not even carry his own ward. He
decided to quit the race month ago.
when this trouble came up in his ward
about chat benefit district
MI Weber himself was. asked this
morning if he had withdrawn, but
eVaded giving a definite answer by say
ing that he has never said he was a
candidate He would not deny the re-
port that he had retired from the race.
What was it scared you out?'' he
was asked
Il was not scared out I never was
scared out of anything in my life. ]
have never said l was a candidate for
mayor, and SO of course I haven't with
drawn"
Did you ever tell anyone that you
would withdraw p
No, I never did. 1 will give you a
hat if you can prove that l ever told
anybody that"
AS between Hughes and Bergund-
thai. which will be nominated?'
Il don't know. If either one is nomi-
mated, there will be an independent
nominated against him. The union la
Dor people will put a candidate in the
neld Ihey would not endorse either
one of them. I don't like a hypocrite.
| believe man should come right out
and say what he thinks about things
From the way Mr.. Weber talks it is
evident that If he is out of the race, il is
contrary to his wishes He is retlcent
about admitting that he forced to get
OFF tho track to make way for the Hughes
boom, which is just about the size of the
situation
Mr.. Weber's friends" have evidently
given it to Mr.. Weber straight that he
can't hope to get the nomination. and
that he had better lay down to the ma
chine candidate, Col. Hughes Mr.. Weber
dislikes this because he disikes Hughes,
Mulvane-Jewell-Ma combine. which has
always backed Weber. has now transfer
red its allegiance. They believe that
Weber has three clements of weakness
which would compass his defeat as Il can
didate for mayor. The first element of
weakness is the bitter hostility to Weber
among people of the Fourth ward ac-
count OF the benefit district wranglc; the
second is the opposition to him Of the
labor unions, and the third in the open
friendship of Mr.. Weber for the Parker
administration.
The trouble about the benefit district is
claimed by Weber to have been tho fault
of ex-Councilman Will Cnaney, but Weber
has been getting the abuse. The DIST: let
was laid out for opening Second and Third
streets near Fillmore. 1t was male too
small, and as it happened, came up to
hut did not include Mr., Weber's property,
thus relieving Mir. Weber from heavy tax
alton. The people who were taxed fought
| the case in the courts and succeeded in
knocking out the proposed district.
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LOCAL MENTION.

r. H. Wilson, of Jetmore. was in the
city this afternoon.
N. Scott of Emooria. was here for a
few hours this afternoon.
A. D. Walker. a prominent politician
Of Holton. was in the city over Eight.
J. p. Case. who is leading politician
of Abilene was at the Throop Monday
evening.
H G. Adams. the we'll known stock
man of Maple Hill. was in Topeka Mon
day night
Mrs 4. E. Brown has been taken to
typhoid fever
L L. Dayhoff. recently elected state
superintendent of public instruction.
was in Topeka Monday night.
DR.. ]. P. Lewis and DIR. f. V. Coldren
decided this morning that Frank Voeth,
charged with insanity, was not insane.
The bazar that was to have been given
by the ladies of the City Federation at
| the Capital city hall will be postponed
until a later date All tickets viii be
l-honored when the bazar is held.
Ira J. Ordway and granddaughter
stopped off in Topeka this afternoon or
their way home from Denver, where
they have been for some time. While
here they were the guests of E. D. Coon.
Bell & Stratton. of this city. sole to
A. A. Busch. of st. Louis. last sTGing a
team of chestnut driving horses fof 81
600. At the st. Louis horse show held
last week. the pair was awarded first
prize in its class-brougham horses.
Election Commissioner T. S. Williams
posted a guess in his office three months
before election on Bailey's majority. The
figures fixed by Mr.. Williams were $4,000.
about twice that of Mort Albaugh, but
it appears that Mr.. Williams hit it
about right
Attorney Charles F. Spencer that he left
for New York Sunday morning with
other attorneys and the special master
/ in the dollar gas case, there to take the
4 testimony Of Mr.. Brady, the man who
owns the stock of the gas company in
4 this city.
Major and Mrs Galley will conduct
an auction of 20 children at the Saliva
ton Army hall on lower Kansas avenue
tonight. BABY Galley, a 6year-old
altoist. will sing Little joe The must
cal gospel service which Mr.. and Mrs.
Gelley held at the hall Monday evening
was largely attended
The annual tea meeting of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary society of the
First M. E. church will be given at the
4 home of Governor and Mrs. Stanley on
Friday evening, November IA Supper
will be served at $780, and a short pro-
gramme given during the evening. All
! interested in missionary work are cor
daily invited
A large audience of women will greet
DR.. Cristion at the New Crawford thea
ter tomorrow afternoon when he gives
the first of his two lectures on beauty
culture. He is the author of many
books on the subject. He will tell how
to remedy many defects The pro-
gramme for the lectures contains a long
list Of subjects upon which DIR. CristiorI
| will discourse.
Mrs Louise Vca Laer was today in
stalled as housekeeper at Stormont hos
pital The position is a new one here,
although it is a position maintained by
the larger hospitals of the country. The
duties include the purchasing of all sup
plies except medical and surgical and
the care of the linen of the institution.
| Mrs. Van Laer has been for three years
matron ct Bethany college.
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Po1NTED PARAaRAPHs.

From the Chicago News
Any man who lives up to his epitaph is
a dead one.
Sometimes the woman that's ratified gets
in the best work.
A golden mirror makes a homely girls
face thing of beauty.
In the higher social circles only men
with an income can come in.
When a man has pluck his friends are
apt to drop the ''p'' and call it luck.
1t isn't much credit to a man to be good
if his income exceeds his wants.
Women, like poker players. raise the
blind to see what their neighbors have
got
After woman has been widow six
months her neighbors begin to look for
weeds on the late lamenteds grave
The eyes are the windows of the soul
and sometimes they look like stained
glass windows after the scrap is over.
A woman's idea of dutiful husband is
one who will stay at home and look after
the baby while she spends the afternoon
shopping.
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ssWEARY WILLIE" LEAVES.
The Company Gets Out of Topeka
Today.

been sojourning in Topeka per force of
an attachment of a paltry printing bill
of $t99.33. has left town. They started
shortly after 1 o'clock for PaOla.
1t was Saturday during the matinee
performance al the Crawford that I'm
der Sheriff Williams served, an attach
ment on Frank Bennett. the manager of
the company. The National printing &
Engraving company of Chicago CLAIMED
the manager owed the firm $199.33. The
show was tied up until today when
Weary Willie and all the rest of the
company went before Judge Hazen and
claimed that they individually and col
lectively owned every trunk. parcel,
band box, costume and everything else
connected with the show and that Man
ager Bennett owned nothing. So the
company got out of town.
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October proved to be another month
IN which both the number of failures
and the amount of liabilities exceeded
those in the corresponding period of last
year. According 20 reports to R. G.
Dun & Co. there were 1868 defaults, with
a total Indebtedness of $10,S51, 534. as
compared respectively with S64 and $1o-
6SO,627 in October. 1901. 1t will be no.
ticed that while there was a consider
able increase in the number of failures
there was only a small increase in the
total of indebtedness. The failures last
month brought the total of liabilities
for the first ten months of the year up
20 1885, O24, as compared to $91. 241, 4Ss
in 1901
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represented in congress during the next
two years by William Randolph Hearst,
editor and proprietor of the New York
Journal. The Chicago American and the
San Francisco Examiner The people of
the Eleventh district appear to be par
tial to newspaper men. They gave Mr..
Hearst over $4,000 majority. If those
who think that the millionaire editor has
obtained seat in congress merely be-
cause he could and for the honor it
might bring, they are liable to find that
they are mistaken. Hearst is a worker
and has, or evidently believes he has a
mission. Moreover he has money suf-
ficient to employ the best advice ana
help to be found in the country. Look
out for Hearst.
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TRUSTS FIRST.
Tariff Question SubOrdinated in
Presidents Message.

washington. Nov 1.-THE president
message will unquestionably deal win
both the control of the trusts and the
revision of the tariff; but the tariff Ques-
ton will be subordinated in most
marked manner to that of the trusts.
The line of argument, it is understood J,
will be that until legislation can be OBJ
tanned for the enforcement OF publicity
in trust operations there is only one
course to DurSue-namely, to MAKE use
of such judicial weapons as existing
statutes put into the hands of the gov
eminent to inquire whether any OF the
industrial combinations are breaking the
laws or already have: and, if there is
reason to believe that they are, to prose-
cute and punish them.
Bearing this in mind, it will be plain
that the idea of making revision of the
tariff the basis of a campaign against
the trusts is not on the presidents pro-
gramme now On his familiar theory
that one thing at a time is enough, he
at once, the tariff issue taking for the
present a secondary place, where it can
be treated thoughtfully and with a
scientific rather than vindictive end in
view. That is the reason he would pre-
fer to take the first consideration for
the whole subject outside of congress
and refer it to a commission of experts,
whose general conclusions, reached,
perhaps for not another year or eigh-
teen months, would afford suggestions
for legislation then and a basis for a
permanent national and non-partisan
policy thereafter
There have been pretty broad hints
thrown out in Washington that the dis
turbances in Wall street within the last
week are at least in part. the result of
manipulation with the design of warning
the president that if he persists in his
understood purposes he will have SOM
terrible disasters charged up against his
record. No arguments on this line have
moved him in the least.
of the same opinion today. as he ex-
pressed last week, Of the advisability OF
increasing the government deposits jr
the national banks The available work.
ing balance of the treasury touched $54.-
0cO 600 after his suspension of his recent
liberal orders. and. although it Is the De
lief of most of his advisers on fiscEi
questions that TIE department could get
along in a pinch with $40, 100000 instead
of the s5O.0O0OO0 which has become tho
traditional limit the secretary was not
disposed to tempt providence by pairing
his resources too closely to the quick.
On the other hand. the report put into
circulation during the last twenty-foui
hours that he might be Obliged to cal
upon the banks for the return Of so71e nf
the money already deposited is. by authoT-
ity pronounced unfoulded- There is nc
present expectation that an: of this
money will be needed; and, should sonf
unforeseen emergency arise later, it VII
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fortunately, there is no cause for
anxiety" says Henry Clews' Financial
Review in discussing the business situ-
alton, and adds: The necessity for con-
servatism is now so fully appreciated
and acted upon that the danger of a
crisis is past. Good crops assure an
other season of business activity. and
this has unquestionably saved us from
unpleasant consequences The monetary
situation is steadily improving and this
is cause for reinsurance. Gold exports
have not commenced. and a larger out
go of agricultural products is about due
and should defer an efflux of the prec-
ious metal for period. although our
large borrowings abroad. which at the
moment appear to be increasing. are
likely to force gold shipments when set
telement day arrives. Large sums of
money are still locked up in syndicate
operations, and this. coupled with the
financing of important deals and the
activity Of general business, is likely to
keep funds in limited supply at firm
rates, at least until currency returns
from the interior after crop require
ments are over"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-11

John Mitchell president of the United
Mine Workers of America has again
been afforded an opportunity to show
his level headedness and he came up
to the scratch just as he has done on
many similar occasions. A movement
to put him in the place occupied by
Samuel Gompers was started but he
nipped it in the bud by declaring prompt
ly that under no circumstances would
he accept an election to the presidency
of the American Federation of Labor.
A declination of the Mitchell kind is not
10 be trifled with.
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Practical Civil Service Reform.

Chicago Chronicle:
Older governments than that of the
United States have always set high
value on experience in their foreign rep
resentattOn. The success Of Great Brit
ain away from home has been due not
exclusively to her ships and guns but
largely to the continuity of her diplo
matte agents.
While it is against the fundamental
idea of democracy to give individual life
tenure in politics. it is for the welfare
of the country that honor ability and
experience shall be highly esteemed.
especially in the representation Of the
government of the United States in for
eign countries where the duties are of a
continuous nature and have no pro9er
connection with the changing aspects of
domestic policies.
The character of American representa-
ton abroad has been greatly improved
of late years. 1t reached its lowest level
after the civil war. Its advance has been
promoted by the solidarity of the ma
ton, which has enabled the national ex-
ecutive to select our foreign representa-
tives from the entire country instead OF
from any special section.
President Roosevelt is entitled to
credit for applying the civil service re
form principle broadly within the state
department The changes that he has
made in that department have been in
spired by a right motive and will I'M
doubtedly rebound to the advantage OF
the countrx.
Instead of supplanting capable and
trustworthy American representatives in
foreign countries with untried partisans
he has transferred state department Off
Gals from posts Of less to posts OF
greater Importance and has in several
instances promoted secretaries to min
isterships
This is following a precedent of uni
versal and immemOrial approval. BY
advancing undersecretaries to secre-
taryships he has given a substantial and
worthy inducement to legation staff
members to merit promotion and fixits
of tenure.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.l
Widows are a rich diet, highly seasoned.
fat man never seems to take up as
much room as a fat woman.
The more women understand a man the
less he understands them
Men blow their own horns because no
body else will blow for them.
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WILL FILE DEMAND.
President Ripley Says Men Will Soon
Ask More Pay.

Los Angeles. Cal, Nov. 11.-Discuss-
ing the demand for increased wages
among the railway brotherhoods in the
employ of western lines, President Rip
ley of the Santa Fe railroad said:
$50 far as the Santa F'e is concerned
we have had it minated the subject
soon will be submitted Up to this time
no formal request has been made. What
the new schedules are as proposed l
don't know, and knowing the general
conservatism of railroad brotherhoods.
am convinced both sides in any con-
troversy that may arise will settle their
affairs amicably I will not say there
will be no trouble for the statement
might be misccnstrued, but am con-
WINGED that what differences come up
will be adjusted by the reasonable stand
of all parties to the controversy.
DIR. Lowry, homeopathist; hours II a.
m. to IL a. m. and to p. m.