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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04
A COAL CONCLAVt
Pra..ident Invites Mine Owners
and Mitchell TO White House

Relieves a National Calamity Which
Threatens viii Be Averted in a
Heart to Heart Talk Tomorrow
(Friday)-Roosevelt viii Suggest
the Immediate Mining Of Coal Pend
ing the Adjustment Of the Difficulty
That the Horrors Of Fuel Famine
May Be Prevented-Favorable Re-
plies From Mitchell and Baer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04
Police Chief Received eribe.

Minneapolis, Oct. 2.-The jury has
returned verdict cOnvicting ex-Chlef
of Police Frederick W. Ames of receiv-
ing q bribe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04
Sept. 26, 1902.
FRIDAY,

FRIDAY, Sept. 2S, 1902.
Albert Moulton, a former West Man
chester IN. H. man, killed himself In
Alaska, Aug. 49,.
Movement on foot to make Presi-
dent Roosevelt colonel in a British
regiment.
Judge Birdsall of Iowa nominated to
succeed Henderson In Congress.
President Roosevelt rests quietly.
no indication that bone of the leg Is
affected
Emperor William may order rae
ing schooner from the Herreshoffs.
Annual report Of the Atchison sys-
tenn shows year of remarkable pros
perity.
Death of Lamont G.. Burnham, for
mer coal and shipping merchant OF
Boston.
Atty.-Gen. Davies nominated for jus
tice OF New York supreme court.
Insurgents attempt to board Pan
anna train and are put TO flight by
American guards.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04

1t sometimes happens that the for.
ward people have to take back seat.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04

New York, Oct 2.-When the train
bearing w. s. Devery and his friends
reached the city from Saratoga last
night Devery was greeted with great
enthusiasm. He made a speech in
which he said he would do all he could
to elect Colcr and the rest of the
ticket aud called on his supporters to
do the same. There was an imposi lg
procession from the train to the Devery
headquarters.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04

Some have sluices in the conscien.
ces, and can keep them open or shut,
IS occasion requireth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04

Trenton, Oct. 2.-Ihc ship combine
was incorporated here yesterday by the
filing of papers amending the certificate
of Incorporation of the International
Navigation company, which was filed
In June, 1893, with an authorized cap
ital of S15,OOO,UOO. The amended
certificate changes the name to that
of the international Mercantile Marine
company. with an authorized capital
of $12O,OOO,OOO.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-04

-hF "'''7 U NrV0N trIo IVVVIy STVCIHI
cleared the Saratoga yards. AS the
train pulled out the leader occupied the
front platform. TO demands of
speech. Speech" he said: Il am not
prepared to say anything other than
that | am a Democrat and will support
the ticket nominated today. was
robbed OF my seats. but that seems TO
he one of the incidents of the conven-
tilon. Maybe I'll have better luck next
time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
WILL Be WOMAN'S DAY.
January % Set Apart at the
Midwinter Exposition.

Tuesday, January q. is to be wo-
mans day at the Midwinter exposition.
Elaborate plans are being made for the
event and it promises to be one of the
most interesting features of the ex-
position.
Woman's day is to be under the aus
pices of the Topeka federation, Mrs. A.
H Thompson, the president, presiding.
The programme is to be given in Rep
resentative hall, and will begin at one
o'clock The program me promises to be
of Unusual Interest as Representatives
women FROM all over the state are to
take part. 1t is as follows:
Music, piano solo-Mrs. Charles Klein
hans, of Topeka.
Address of welcome-Mrs. Margaret
Hill McCarter, of Topeka.
Message from pioneer woman-Mrs.
Sara Il. d. Robinson of Lawrence.
The Woman'S Relief Corps-Mrs.
Jennie Walker, of Goodland. president
of the w. r. c.
Music, 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
U.-Mrs e. P. Hutchinson, of Hutchin-
son, president of the w. c. T. U.
The Ladies of the G.. A R.-Mrs. Wall,
of Lawrence, national president of
Ladies' G. A. r.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution, Mrs. Emma L. Reed, of Wich-
ita; vice president, Emma Sterling
Music. vocal solo-Miss Irene Horner.
of Topeka.
Kansas Women in Literature-Mrs.
Annie l. Diggs, of Topeka, state
librarian.
What Are Motherhood Organizations
Accomplishing? Mrs. Ida H. Hardy,
of Topeka, national president League of
American Mothers.
Fair Play-Miss Helen Kimber, of
Parsons, president Equal Suffrage As
Sociation.
Music-Ladies quartette.
The NeWSDanor Woman and State
Progress-Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, of Kins-
ley, president Kansas Womans Press
association.
The State Federation of Clubs-Mrs
c. c. Goddard, Leavenworth, state
chairman G. F. w. c.
The comm ittee in charge of the pro-
gramme is composed of Mrs. A. H.
Thompson, Miss Lucy D. Kingman and
Mrs. Frank p. MacLennan. Following
the programme there will be recep-
ton for the visitors and local societies
given by Mrs. w. e. Stanley at the ex-
ecutive mansion, from four until six
o'clock. Street cars will be in waiting
at the corner of Eighth and Van Buren,
streets.
The Topeka Federation of Clubs ex-
tends cordial invitation to all women
to visit the reception and rest rooms at
the Midwinter exposition where a COM
them and where they may meet their
friends and enjoy a restful half hour.
The Ceramic Art club will have an ex-
hibition of rare china in their rooms
which will be of special interest. A half
fare rate on all roads from any part of
q, and last for five days for the bene-
fit of any who wish to be present on
Woman's day and Kansas day which is
on January 29.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Hope never costs anything.
A chronic kicker-the ballet dancer.
Some people are too weak to turn
over q new leaf.
Insomnia may be only another name
for an accusing conscience.
Convicts may not be aristocrats, but
they are certainly exclusive.
It's the running expenses that count
up when man owns an automobile.
Lots of fellows have extravagant
ideas about everything except work.
The industrious burglar is generally
doing something, even If it's only time.
When a fellow complains that he
is always getting sold he feels pretty
cheap.
After a woman has been married for
about five years she skips the love pas
sages in a novel
Wigg-"The population in London is
very denseP isn't it?" Wagg-"Dense
is no name for it. They couldn't I'M
derstood my jokes at all"
Blobbs-"That fellow is a sort of an
archist." Slobbs-'"ThinkS there are too
many laws, eh?" Blobbs-"Well, he
thinks too many OF them are enforced
THE difference between a weak man
and a strong man." says the Manayunk
Philosopher, "is that. the weak man
swears off and the strong man quits"
What did you think of my sermon
on foreign missions?" asked the minis
ter. when 1 took up the collection it
almost made me wish I were one of the
benighted heathen," replied the deacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
Some people act the hog all their lives,
and then don't get much.
Taking q girl out is becoming almost
as costly as keeping a horse at a livery
barn.
Philosophy gathered at minstrel
show: If you can't afford turkey, put
mackerel to soak.
Times are a little dull since Christ
mas. What is old Hanna going to do
about it? Lose our votes?
In order to show that he is well read,
an Atchison man called his enemy to-
day "a muddled oaf."
After a man has been married about
a year, there is added to his already
long list of crimes that of waking the
baby.
There are lots of old. Grabbed people
managing business houses, who should
be moved out to make room for spring
goods.
IF he don't pay it, I WILL" said a man
proudly, to a merchant. But" the
merchant replied, you are not good.
1t is not enough if a newspaper does
not mention a mean mans crimes; ne
demands that he be praised as an hon
est man.
When a young boy or girl is lam
bilious" it usually means that their
parents are depriving themselves to
help them along.
An Atchison child wanted a set Of toy
dishes. Don't give me tin Dishes" she
said; II want the china kind; the kind
1 can break"
The aristocracy on Gillespie street
are those who have both hogs and
chickens. Some go still further, and
have COW, too; but some are very poor
and can afford only few dogs.
1t is being remarked that while the
picture of Mrs. Lysander John Apple
ton, wife of the Kin Commissioners
General of the United States, has ap-
peared in all the papers. no one has
seen a picture of her distinguished
husband.
A drinking man had trouble with
his wife, and they separated 1t was
predicted that the man would at once
go to the bow vows, having no restrain
ing influence, but he fooled them: he
sobered up. and has been well behaved
ever since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
ALFALFA TO BE KING.
Prediction of Senator Peterson on the
Coming Crop For Western Kansas.

In one of the late sessions of the
State Board of Agriculture, Sena-
tor E. B. Peterson, of Norton, read a 40
minute paper on alfalfa and its signif-
icance to Kansas. He said in a few
years alfalfa would assume the great
est Importance of any product in the
state; that as forage plant for general
use it had no equal; that the semiarid
regions of the western part of the state
are particularly adapted to it.
This fact is established by the thous-
andS of acres now under successful Gull
tivation in that section. Alfalfa is a
perennial plant and when once estab-
lished will last for years if properly
treated. 1t was of the most profitab BILE
of all of our farm products. He gave a
statement of the character of grounds
adapted to its cultivation; how to pro-
vide the soil for seeding; the amount of
seed to be sown to the acre: how to
harvest and cure the hay. He said the
making of alfalfa hay requires consid-
cradle skill and good judgment; that
the art is to be acquired from expert
ence and observations rather than fol-
lowing directions. He advocated SOW
ing early in the spring and taking
chances of having the plant killed by
the frost rather than by the hot dry
weather in June.
Mr.. Peterson was of the opinion that
the profits from alfalfa hay had been
over estimated and over-stated. He
said that the best results in Norton
county did not exceed $40 an acre, and
even $40 was among the few exceptions.
That alfalfa lands in Morgan county,
Colorado, are among the best in the
west Their average yield was not over
four tons to the acre.
Alfalfa is a good pasture for horses
and hogs. It is an ideaF hog pasture.
1t is not safe to pasture alfalfa with
stock cattle, the dangers from blost
being very great. AS compared with
alfalfa, red clover is the safe grass to
pasture. Alfalfa is pushing Norton
county to the front as one of the most
profitable agricultural counties in the
state. Tt is something new and striking
in the history of the state, when Nor
ton county this year was shipping hun
dreds of tons of prime alfalfa hay to
eastern Kansas and western Missouri.
Senator Peterson said that Kansas in
order to retain her present proud posi-
ton among the great states, must pro-
duce some of the tame grasses reliably
and well, and that our hope is in alfal-
ia. Alfalfa is a boon to Kansas whose
future value in Importance no man can
"a
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Finally Paid the Bill.

This morning a stranger entered the
office of the Pierson Milling company
and without preliminaries pulled roll
of bills out of his pocket. Mr.. Ed Pier
son supposed he was going to buy "A
bill of flour and got book and pencil
ready, when to his astonishment the
stranger handed him two IS bills, say
ing: About fifteen years ago 1 got s.
too much in change from a clerk of
yours here in this office, and 1 want to
pay back that IS now and give you IS
additional for interest" Mr.. Pierson
endeavored to find out who the man
was. but without avail, he passing out
with the remark that he had intended
to make the payment often before but
had never gotten around to it--Law-
renee Journal.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
CFrom the Chicago News.1

ltrom the chicago NeWS.I
Only a fool goose would tackle the
golden egg business.
Women are Jealous of echoes because
they get the last word.
Truth prevails in the end, but a lie
always leads in the stretch.
The calendar maker has a good deal
to do with numbering our days.
bachelor says the only certain thing
about women is their uncertainty.
The gossip never makes long story
short enough to leave out the scandal
The man on the sidewalk sees more of
the procession than the drum major
does.
The dentist has a pull that is calcu-
lated to I'LL the politicians heart with
envy.
We are told that wealth doesn't bring
contentment-and many people are
sure that poverty doesn't
In order to be a first-class theorist a
man must have perfect confidence in
his Imagination.
Many man goes around looking for
trouble and the minute he meets it he
has hurry call in another direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
RICHEST NATION ON EARTH

The standing of the United States
with her neighbors. and especially with
those of Europe, is illustrated by some
statements made by the London Daily
Mail Year Book for 1902, a copy of
which has lust reached the treasury
bureau of statistics. Under the head
of wealth it places the United States
at the head of the list of great nations
the figures of wealth being: United
States. SIG, $50, 000, 900; United Kingdom,
s11. 100000: France. 1850. o0o. 900:
Germany. es,052 0O0. 600, and Russia,
S6,425, GOO. 000 While the United States
heads this list of countries in its wealth,
st shows the smallest national indebted
ness the figures being.
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Minor Washington Notes.

Postofhces discontinued: Kansas
Pansy, Pleasant Hill, Franklin county.
mail to Pomona; Lorena, Butler coun-
ty mail to Augusta; Oasis, Smith coun-
ty, mail to Ports; Patmos Coffey
county, mail to Burlington.
Archibald F. Watson, of Salina, Kas..
has been appointed $4,000 clerk in the.
postoff1ce department
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of the follow
ing persons to organize the First Ma
tional bank of Waverly Kas with a
capital of $4,000: Charles N Converse,
Peter Shiras, William Wallace. w. r.
Killer, F. M. Shiras, John p. Harris, and
otherA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
FORGED ROOsEvELT'sNAME
The Plot to Release a Convict Ex-
posed by the President.

Helena, Mont, Jan. ia plot to Sc
cure the release from the penitentiary
of L. c. Livingstone. a forger. sent
from Silver Bow county, in April, 1900.
for five years, has failed. The names
of several New York men were forge 1
to the petition. which represented that
Livingstone came from the distinguished
New York family of that name and had
served as a rough rider in Cuba.
Among the names signed to the petition
were Theodore Roosevelt, August Be-
mont Hugh J. Grant, Thomas A. Edi-
son, Jerome w. Aston and E. d. Nor
gan.
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Japanese Join Strike.

San Francisco. Jan. 13.-Twenty-six
japanese mechanics who have been
working at the Union Iron works filling
the places of some of the American iron
workers who are on strike for a shorter
work day, have been called out and
have quit work. The japanese were
ordered out by the officers of the jap
anese Association Of America, an organ
ization with which all the residents OF
that nationality are affiliated. This &C
ton was brought about through the
efforts of the Iron Trades council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


IF'rom the New York Press
The early bird catches a cold stocking
up the furnace in the cellar.
The drink that browns your sorrow
waters your bed of thistles.
When man is at the end of his
arguments he swears; a woman cries.
More people look ahead to success ten
thousand times over than look back at
it.
The woman that smokes and likes it
is as rare as the man who doesn't drink
and likes not to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
Hanlon Signs Flood.

New York, Jan. 13.-Manager Ned
Hanlon, of the Brooklyn Baseball club,
arrived in New York last night He
has signed a new second baseman for
his team next season. The new man is
Flood, the crack second baseman of the
National club of the California league
infielders in the California league. He
is 800 hitter. and besides can field his
position admiral bly,. Flood will replace
Tom Daily at second base, who has
signed contract to play with the
Chicago American league team next
season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

What these commercial times would
like to see,' says the Indianapolis
News, would be a young woman who
would be willing to begin the battle of
life with the man she loved by going
into the kitchen and becoming real
helpmeet." To which the Minneapolis
Times adds: "Or a young man who
would hustle so hard that his wife
would not have to spend many hours
in the kitchen and would thus become
a still better helpmeet to him"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

After all, the Australian ballot law
was passed to prevent fraudulent cleo
lions and no one perhaps. not even one
of the dissenting justices in the mayor
atty case, presumes to believe that
there was any fraud, intentional or 9TH
erwise in those double ballots that were
voted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Expressions emanating from the los
ing side in the mayoralty contest indi-
cate a belief on it's part that Mr.. Par
ker win pay more attention to water
and less to whisky than has been the
previous rule in the office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

The railroads of the country have
planned to spend hundreds of millions
of dollars this year on improvements
and extensions While this is going on
there can be no serious check to bust
ness prosperity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

1t is noted that while we are under
selling the European iron manufactur-
ers in the markets of the world, the
agent of Mr.. Stilwel, the promoter of
the Orient railway. slips over to Bel
gium and contracts for 800 miles of steel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Col. Hughes is reported to have lost
$4,000 in the mayoralty game. perhaps
in the future he will be confenteo
simply to ANTE" until he gets some
thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

1t looks now as though the national
house will have an opportunity of vot-
ing again on the subject of an isthmian
canal The vote of last week in favor
of the Nicaragua route may have been
good politics but it was poor business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Both at the polls and in the court
Mr.. Parker won by a narrow margin
but it was sufficient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

The ship subsidy bill is a little slow
in reaching the center of the stage TINS
session, but the men behind it can al
ford to wait if the chances of success
be thereby enhanced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

A business transaction involving less
than seven figures is regarded as hard
ly worth mentioning these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

The recent defeat of Perry Belmont
seems to indicate that the New York
voters are determined to give Tam
many a thorough drubbing while it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

In consideration of the competition
which is appearing in the ice business
it is reasonable to expect a cool sum-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
Judge West will have the Second dis
trict pretty well lined up behind his
ho0r7

The Populists and Democrats are not
talking about state offices very much
at present. They are waiting to see
whether they will all become Democrats
or not. That is the all absorbing ques-
ton at present, and until it is settled
there will be no great scram BILE for
nomina lions. Taylor Riddle, who is one
of the Populist leaders in favor of GO
ing bodily into the Democratic party,
frankly states that he does not have
any idea what the Populists will do.
The rank and file has habit of doing
as it pleases regardless of the leaders,
The advice of Mrs. Diggs in the matter
will probably have as much weight as
that of any of the other leaders,
Senator Burton has secured for Ar
thur Kayser, Fort Scott attorney. a
clerkship on the Dawes Indian commits
sion at a salary of 81, 500 year and ex-
penses.
The Nortonville News announces that
A. j. White, for whom a boom for lieu.
tenant governor was started a few days
ago, is not a candidate.
Charley Ridgeway gives it out cold
that he is not candidate for superin-
tendent of insurance. He has lost moth
ing by having boom, however. When
the insurance company of which he is
secretary heard of his boom it straight
way raised his salary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13
Rosy Cheeks

Do you want them7 DO You simply want
TO glow with health? Do you want to eat
Wei, sleep well and work we'll? Try
lAcntyS celery Nerve Compound. Sold
by George w. Stansfield, 632 Kansas ave
nue.; Marshall Bros 115 Kansas avenue
Adhesive, invisible, harmless; Satin
Skin Powder is only one that doesn't
clog the pores. 25c, at New Model
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Under the head of Fight for the Iron
Trade it calls attention to the fact that
the United States is now the worlds
largest producer of pig iron and steel,
and says. TT will be noted that the
United Kingdom has lost ground, pro-
ducing 396,T49 tons less in 1900 than in
1899, the total for Great Britain being
nearly 100000 tons less than in Amer
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service under presidential orders, the
first of which will be issued soon. The
inclusions will be made separately by
departments instead of in bulk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Under the head OF Commercial compe-
tition it says that "the first year of the
twentieth century opened badly for two
of the four leading Industrial nations
The trade of the United States was good
and showed no decline from the BOOM
ing period of 1899 and 1900, but rather
in most instances a continuance of the
boom of which the United States has
had so disproportionately large-a share,
and France, which had responded less
expansively to the boom, remained I'm
affected by the decline and progress
elsewhere In England and Germany.
however, the decline was felt acutely"
Under the head Of the worlds wheat
crop it shows the United States far
ahead Of any other country. in the pro-
duction Of wheat, the estimate of the
worlds crop for 1901 being:
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Charley Rid,
Extensions of Civil Service.

Washington, Jan. 13.@The laborers
employed in the government depart
nents will be brought into the civil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Tuesday night E. D. Drake will in
stitute lodge No. 5SS, I. o. Q. F., at Cor
win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-13

Senator John A. Kennedy's boom for
congress is gaining considerable ac-
celeration since his announcement a
short time ago. A number of the
Fourth district papers are saying nice
things about him.