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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
TO TAKE.OFF TRAINS.
ssnta Fe Will Soon Discontinue
Two.

The Santa Fe announces that an Inn
portant change will shortly take place
in their time card. The Colorado and
Missouri River Flyers are both to be
taken off, These trains, Nos. and 10,
run between Kansas City and Colo
RADIO Springs only during the summer
months, when the traffic between these
points is the heaviest
The last train of the Colorado Flyer
for the season of 1908 will leave Kan
sas City on September %. This train
returning will leave Colorado Springs
for the last time this season on Sep
TENDER %. The road also announces
that the observation sleeper which has
been in service on Nos. and be-
tween Kansas City and Colorado
Springs during the summer months, is
to be discontinued until next summer
This car will be taken off of No. on
September 20, and off of No. on the
30th.
AS the result of these changes the SUI
perintendents of the road whose divi-
sions are effected by the change will
shortly meet in Topeka for the purpose
of arranging new time card.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
EDITORIAL ooMMENT.
German Steel for Our Market

New York Times:
The announcement that agents of
Herr KrupD are about to visit this
country to look over the field here and
determine whether this market offers
such opportunities for the sale of Ger
man steel as would make it worth while
to undertake a serious and systematic
competition with the United States
Steel corporation, other mergers and in
dependent companies. has less signifi-
canoe than has been given it in the
popular imagination. It is probably
without sensational features of any
kind. During the past two years the
consumers of steel in it's cruder forms
have had great deal of trouble in OBJ
tanning supplies as promptly and in
such quantities as their business de-
manded. Had they been wholly depend
ent upon the steel corporation and it's
competitors. they would have been in
bad waS.
The tendency Of progress in Industrial
development in the steel industry is to
advance manufacture in first hands as
far as possible ard sell the product in
the relatively high priced forms of bars,
wire, tin plates, sheets. rails, and the
like. This tendency has been carried so
far that during the greater part of the
long period of prosperity the producers
of steel have had little to sell in the
cruder forms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
aHow TO GROW Big FOOD.

A professor in the University of Chi
cago claims to have discovered food
which will increase the girth and stature
of men, so that in a few generations no
wearer of trousers will measure less
than six feet two in his socks. says the
Brooklyn Eagle.
This marvellous food is called lecithin,
a word calculated to tangIe up adver-
tisement writers who may be called
upon to exploit that diet in the near
future. According to DR.. Hatai, the
discoverer, lecithin has already shown
marvellous results when fed to white
rats. It is defined as "an organic, phos-
phorus containing body found in eggs,
brain matter and the white corpuscles
of the blood" If it will really make
men physically bigger it can be used to
advantage for certain purposes. For
instance, it would provide unlimited re-
cruits for the police of our metropolises,
where tall men and men of muscle are
imperatively required. Likewise it
would keep the English Life guard regi-
ments and the French cuirassiers up to
the standard.
But do we want to grow big?
Wouldn't it be a bit monotonous if we
were all six feet two, or Whereabouts?
And, beside. the big man is not physi-
calIy the fittest. He may lift more than
strike a harder blow: but he is not. as
a rule, so we'll able to sustain fatigue.
That fact has been proven by the rigor-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

lF'rom the Philadelphia Record]
No mans reputation is safe until he is
dead.
A man never knows what he can't do
until he tries.
You can't always judge a woman
weight by her signs.
If you don't tip the waiter the waiter
is apt to tip the plate.
Two souls with but a single thought
seldom remain single.
One sort of permanent investment is
buying q cemetery lot.
A lot of misdirected sympathy is
wasted on the under dog.
There isn't any money to burn when
you strike a love match.
A man who gossps is worse than a wo-
man who wants to vote.
1t may be more blessed to give than to
receive. but 1t isn't popular.
The fellow who invests in green goods
is generally done up brown.
When fellow is frozen out of a good
thing 1t naturally makes him hot
Sillicus-"Do you believe that men are
what women make them?' CynicuS-
We'll, the fool men generally are.
Among the bad men of the west when
fight results in a draw the outcome de-
ponds largely upon who draws first.
Adam and Eve fell says the Cynical
Bachelor. land ever since then people
have been getting married in the fall
It's all right to lend a hand. but not
in poker game.
1t naturally follows that the young
man who sows wild oats should raise
the deuce. .s.
Some people are not satisfied to pad
die their, own canoes. but they want to
paddle everybody elses.
Blobbs-.I called the doctors daugh-
ter a little goose, and now she refuses
thought you meant to imply that her
father was Quack'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
No Currency Legislation.

New York Herald:
There is a growing impression. that
there will be no currency legislation at
the approaching session of congress.
Members of the Aldrich subcommittee
to which was delegated the preparation
of a bill have lapsed into silence, Sec
rotary Shaw's public addresses scarcely
touch upon the question, and the dis
cussions at the sessions of the bankers
reflect little or no hope that anything
will be accomplished. At the conven-
ton of the Indiana bankers yesterday,
Senator Beveridge declared that mo
legislation is possible at the coming
session which viii radically affect our
entire currency system and cause the
business world to pause in our present
prosperity until it is seen how such
legislation is going to work" The SEN
ator has not been regarded as an au-
thority on monetary subjects, but from
the fact that he has recently talked
with the president it seems to be graz
tuitously assumed that he reflects Mr..
Roosevelt's views. A brief and simple
enactment taking off the restriction as
to the retirement of notes, permitting
all pblic moneys to be deposited in the
banks and defining how the surplus
shall be deposited, is vitality needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

sedgwick will have watermelon
day"
Apples are scarce around Fort Scott
but the hickory nut crop makes up
for it.
On cob pipe purchased by an Atchi-
son man in Chicago were two pictures
of Ed Howe.
A rather odd feature of the Dickinson
county old settlers reunion will be d
baby show.
Mr.. Chick very appropriately superin-
tended the rooster display at the Frank
lin county fair.
Abilene entertains with IL o'clock
breakfasts That's one of the things
prosperity is doing for the state.
In many Topeka drug stores a wink
to the soda fountain clerk is a tip. but
it doesn't go with the restaurant
walters.
A 'heathen Chinee' doing the under
world resorts of Leavenworth was rob
bed of $3.50. That means the pressing
out of a good many shirt bosoms for
All Sam.
An S0-year-old youth was married at
Leavenworth on Friday. OF course he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
The Latest Turbine Steamer.
New York Tribune:

New York Tribune:
Fully two months have passed since
the steamer Queen, the first boat
equipped with turbine engines to cross
the English channel began running
regularly between Dover and Calais.
A much better judgment in regard to
her qualities can be formed now, there
fore, than early in the summer and
she has certainly shown herself a Won
derful craft. The absence of noise and
vibration adds materially to the COM
fort of the passengers, and what is
still more important, she makes a new
record for speed.
In decent weather she travels at the
rate of the best ocean liners, % knots
an hour, and usually makes the run
from pierhead to pierhead in so min
utes. Thus she beats the swiftest of her
predecessors by about quarter of an
hour. 1t is no wonder that similar yes
sells are proposed for other routes across
the channel. Shipbuilders and naval ex-
perts who have considered the feast
bility of introducing turbines on war
ships and transatlantic steamships will
find the performance of the Queen in
StructiVe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. ]. D. Powers left today for Abb
lene, Kan, to be absent a few days.
marriage license was issued this
morning for r. B. Higgins and Cora
Louise Eby.
Mrs. Georgia De Long will return
Thursday after an absence of seven
weeks in the east
John E. Frost left today for the west
ern part of the state to be gone for the
remainder of the week.
Miss Addie A. Newcomer is a guest
of her mother, Mrs. j. K. Newcomer at
her home on West street.
The S. A. club will meet at the home
of Miss Daisy Ralston, 2034 Kansas
avenue. Wednesday evening
A license to marry has been granted
in Kansas City court to David w.
Ward and Josephine McGraw of To-
pe'a.
Carl Buford, a small boy, has been
charged with being incorrigible and
he must answer to the charge before
Judge Hayden in the probate court.
Col. George r. Lugton is back at his
place in the elevator at the federal
building, after a leave of absence dur
ing which he attended the old soldiers
reunion at Lawrence.
George T. Mattingly, who has been
foreman of the weed cutting gang dur
ing the summer, has disbanded his men
for the season. He cut the weeds over
the whole town three times and kept
things in better shape than is ordinarily
done.
Mrs. DIR. d. D. Martin and son. DR.
George Martin, of Newkirk, o. T.. are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Walker at
Parkview farm. Mr.. Ross Walker of
Warren. Pa, and Mr.. r. w. Comstock
to the Pacific coast, are also visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Walker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
MUST MOVE ON.
That Is the Order to Express.
men Today.

The expressmen who have been max
ing West Sixth street between Kansas
avenu and Jackson street their rem
devious. were compelled to leave that
street this morning by the police and
have spent the day driving up and
down Kansas avenue
When Joab Mulvane came down to
his office in the Bank of Topeka build
ing this morning he found a number
of expressmen lined up along West
Sixth street. He Immediately made
complaint to the police and Officer
Frank Summers told the expressmen
they would have to go. His order being
backed up by a city ordinance recently
passed the expressnen moved.
Forming in line they have been pa
rading the length of Kansas avenue
ever since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
Payne Puts 1t Up to the President.

New York Press:
President Roosevelts order for an in
veStigation into the case of Huldah
Todd, the Delaware postmistress re-
moved by Postmaster General Payne.
on the demand of the Addicks gang.
may bring to light nothing about that
shameful business that the public does
not already know. The same is true
about the formal investigation into the
Tulloch charges now being made by
Bonaparte and Conrad, under the spe-
cial appointment and personal direction
of the president in the Washington
postoffice. The people know what out
ages upon the spirit and letter of the
civil service law were committed there,
any they know, too, that the statute of
limitations shields any spokesman who
may have stepped over the line of
criminality in the prostitution of the
public service in that office The presi-
dents call for official reports, therefore,
should be of great significance to Mr.
PaVQQ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Gus tests of all the great military cam
paigns of recent years. The race APP
pears to be doing very well wherever
ment approximate the normal We do
not want to be any larger, please
Therefore we do not desire to see por-
traits of our seven foot sons hung up in
drug store windows and labeled "leci-
thin did this We really believe that
humanity, if left alone and provided
with a sufficiency of fresh air and good
food with work and recreation in suit
able proportion, will continue to grow
big enough for all practical purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

rFrom the New York Press.l
1t is almost as hard to convince a
woman you are right as that she is
wrong.
Very few men who take their whisky
straight keep that way themselves.
A girl is a mighty sight handsomer
when she is somebody elses than she is
when she is your own.
Women will never respect mems abil-
ity till they learn all the things that
can be done with pins.
A woman puts as high an estimate on
picture hat as a man does on a norni-
nation for public Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
SHOCKED By a DUKE.

The Duke of Roxburghe, who Is to
wed Miss May Goelet. has shocked the
elite of American society by kissing
his fiancee in the presence OF two or
three hundred people. The social lions,
it is reported regarded the act of the
duke in silent disapproval. They did
not turn their faces the other way, and
they no doubt carefully noted the effect
on Miss Goelet. and it is not recorded
that the young lady offered any re-
monstrance or was at all frustrated by
the encounter. But Newport is shocked
nevertheless. The grave and dignif1ed
matrons retired to their million dollar
cottages and the young women gath
cred in little groups and discussed the
startling occurrence and perchance
sighed because there are no more men
like the Duke of Roxburghe.
1t may be that the innovation would
have passed without creating any COM
ment were it not for the fact that it
gives a hint of surprising condition
existing prior to the usual interna-
tionaI marriage Is 1t not possible that
the salute given in this public manner
is an indication that there is a genuine
feeling of affection between the duke
and his American fiancee? If that is
what Newport took it to mean, it is no
wonder the cottagers were shocked.
But however much Newport is
disturbed now it will eventually recover
its equilibrium, and since the breach of
etiquette was committed by real live
duke it is within the range of posi-
bility that the rules will be changed to
conform to the dukes ideas of pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Calculations of the value of this years
crops have resulted in the publication
of some large figures. The total is
about $1,000 100000 and some of the
leadings items are as follows: Corn.
S1,144. go, 900; wheat, $685., s72. 900; oats
S267, 9O1,O cotton, S52s, 600 900; hay.
1851, 900, 900; potatoes, S132, DOC, 600; dairy
products, $500, 00O, 900 Adding products
under the hundred million mark. such
as rye, buckwheat. barley. tobacco.
wool, etc, and the grand total is some
thing immense. The census of 1900 show
ed 5,759,657 farms in the United States.
of which 3.713,371 were operated by their
owners. The value of land and i'm
provements was over SIS, 900. GOO, 900; of
buildings. over 81. SEQ 0oO. 900, and Of live
stock over $4,000. O00. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
ELECTRIC LINE RUMOR.
ST. Louis Capitalists to Furnish the
Money Perhaps.

The following dispatch appeared in
this mornings Kansas City Times I'M
der a Topeka date line:
ssThe latest rumor in electric railway
circles here is that a syndicate of st.
Louis capitalists has agreed to furnish
the money to build a Kansas City con-
nection with the Vinewood park rail-
wav here. 1t is said that final arrange
u1ents for building the line will be
made before the end of this month
Il e Myers, manager of the Topeka
railway, denied the truth OF this rumor
He saws there is no such plan on foot
that he knows of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

was in his second childhood and not re-
sponsible.
Two carloads of walnut logs were re-
Gently shipped from Kansas. That
doesn't sound like an item from tree
less plains country, does it?
A Cowley county Indian farmer raised
a twelve pound beet. The noble red
man appears to be getting good for
something besides absorbing bad whisky.
Section hands who found $50 dozen
eggs in cases along the track near How
ard were Jubilant until after they crack
ed one or two. They had been there
some weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
The Old Guard.

New York Times:
The issue of the Labor day fiasco,
which was to have been the vindica ton
and rehabilitation of Parks by popular
reclamation, seems to have been quite
different from what was expected. All
the unions but his own have deserted
his standard and signed the employers
arbitration agreement The house
smiths and bridgemen's union still
holds fortitude if the cause were just.
The example of the old guard at
Waterloo, die rather than surrender
would be all very we'll if it accom-
plished any good purpose. The next
step will be the dissolution of this re-
calcitrant and uncompromising organ
ization, through international dissen-
sions for the Labor day incident fur
nished ample material.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

New York city is calling for an ae-
counting by street railway corporations
for their unpaid taxes. The city book
keepers find an Indebtedness on account
Of tax arrears by the railway corpora
tions amounting to $4,000, 600. and of
this sum over $12.O0O.OOO is the amount
positively established as due on the
lines specified by the experts The re-
mainder of the -$19. 00O. 600 represents the
experts careful estimate based upon
satisfactory data
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
HOW MONEY WILL GO
The Ten Thousand Dollar Flood
Fund Classified.

The $4,000 cash relief fund is being
distributed today to North Topeka
flood sufferers. The committee has sent
out postal cards notifying those appli-
cants whose cases have been bly,
acted upon. They are required to pre-
sent their postals to F. P. Elmore,
cashier of the Shawnee State bank,
who pays them their money.
Six hundred and fifty-three appli-
cants have been granted relief in sums
varying from $50 to IS EACH The dis
trihr,tior, nv Glasses is as follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

The secretary of the navy has issued
an order declaring THE Star Spangled
Banner" to be the national anthem,
and directing all officers and men to
stand at attention, if possible. whenever
It is played. This is all right for the
navy but on land and in our insular
possessions the people probably will
stick to "There'n be a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Steel trust securities continue to de-
cline in price on the stock exchange. If
any misfortune should overtake the
trust. what would become of the many
beneficiaries of Mr.. Carnegie's bounty
that have received their endowment in
steel bonds?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

While the international commission is
discussing the Alaskan boundary in
London, the United States ship Burn
sides is busy laying 600 miles of cable
between Seattle and Sitka. The cable
viii go up along the Lynn canal with
out asking any questions. The expedf-
tion is accompanied by General A. W.
Greedy, chief signal officer, formerly
director of the weather bureau at Wash
ingtOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Pittsburg Dispatch: A California
newspaper asserts that Oxnard is I'M
known in politics. AS Mr.. Oxnard is the
gentleman who tells the United States
senate what 1t must not do about reci-
procity treaties we conclude that must
be business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

At the Throop hotel this evening a din
ner will be given in honor of Secretary
Fred Mason of the National Grocers' as
ISOLATION, who is here to address a meet
ing of the local association in the council
with Mr. Mason will be F. M. Nevland
william Green, NJ. j. Fitzgerald. w. p.
Eckert, J. M. Frank. Z. Mont gomery,
Fred Morns, H. r. Whittlesey, w. F.
Weber, T. NJ. Hanley. d. D. Knox, H. Of
fen and E. A. McCollum. members of the
board of directors of the Topeka associa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Can anybody recall an instance where
a duke or other nobleman of Europe
has fallen in love WITH and married an
American girl who was not rich? Yet
we often hear these international mar
riages called love matches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
waddeII Admits It.

Louisville, KY, Sept. 21.-Rube Wad-
deli. the pitcher. admitted today that he
would play next year with the Pniladei-
nbia Americans. He has signed a con-
tract with Manager Mack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
Beatrice Man Commits Suicide.

New York. Sept. 21.-James D. Kill
patrick. of Beatrice, Neb., committed
suicide here today by shooting. He had
been in New York since July and was
a member of the firm of Fitzpatrick
Brothers &c Co. of Beatrice, and a di
rector of the New York Exporting and
importing company He was % years
of age Kilpatricks room mate said
that Fitzpatrick had been brooding over
i'll health He believed that was the
cause of the suicide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

New York appears to be about to I'M
dergo a new experience. An election is
approaching and the indications are
that it will be pulled off without the
assistance of Mr.. Richard Croker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
SANTA FE WRECK.
Passenger Train Ran Into Rear
Of Freight Near Rocky Ford.

Rocky Ford. Colo, Sept 21.-Santa
Fe passenger train No. 602 ran into the
rear end of an extra freight train one
mile west of Rocky Ford, teIescopins
five cars of the freight train. A tank
of oil exploded setting fire to the wreck.
Engineer John Maddigan, who jumped
from his engine was badly hurt. Mrs.
E. L. Drake of Alva, Okla. was Sc
verely bruised and some other passen-
gers badly shaken up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Referring to the popular prejudice
against dime novels. the Tacoma
Ledger suggests thaeoften the only diff
ference between thes& and the other
kind is a matter Of from 90 cents to
81 40
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

A number of German cities have es-
tablished municipal drug stores. This
might be a good way for Topeka to
eliminate the drug store Joint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

The st. Joe News refers to D. j.
Kelly as a, kid gloved Doodle dis
penser." Mr.. Kelly has a reputation
for doing his work without gloves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

Washington Post: The Kansas uni
versity is to have a chair of journal
ism. That Wichita correspondent is en-
titled to it if it is upholstered in yellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

w. L. Tracy, of North Topeka, died
this morning in the Santa Fe hospital
at Ottawa of cancer. at the age of So
years. Funeral arrangements have not
been made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21
Fort blown Up.

Mozambique, East Africa, Sept I'll
An explosion of gun powder and gren-
AIDES has occurred in Fort San Sabas-
tiano Many persons were killed or in
jured The fort was badly wrecked.
Further explosions are feared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-21

In the matter of joint debate will
the opposition candidate for u. S. sen
ator, Mr.. Hanna may decide to 'le
well enough alone"