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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
M'aRAw's MEN ARE muT1NoUs
McGinnity and Others of the Giants
Threaten to Desert.


New York, Oct. 20.-Several players
of the New York National league club
have declared war on John L. Brush.
They are dissatisfied with the treat
nent accorded them at the close of the
season and the disruption of the club is
expected.
Joe McGinnity says he will quit the
team and play in the California league
Roger Bresnahan is another, it is said
who will not be seen on the New York
team next year. Other players, while
having expressed dissatisfaction with
the treatment this year, now threaten
to Quit.
All season McGrew had a hard time
handling Bresnahan, and Roger always
complained of being imposed upon.
Only by coaxing could he be persuaded
at times to work. McGraws view has
been that the negotiations were to
trade the Giants great batter for Sey-
mour of the Cincinnati club or Joe
Kelly The reds manager says such
plan is under way, and will no doubt
be closed.
Joe McGinnity is the only Giant who
so far, has said anything for publica-
ton.
when the season began" said Nc
Ginnity. 'Iohn T. Brush and other Of
ficialS of the club promised us that if
we would finish the season with the
team in first, second, or third position
he would make US all a present. Be
sides that he promised the entire re-
ceipts of the exhibition games PLAYED
after the league season ended. He has
not kept his word. We got no presents
and for the exhibition games we played
each Of us got the insignificant sum of
$3.50. We appreciate the fact that
Brush and the others interested fnan-
cially in the club are under heavy ex
pense. but at that we figured they
cleared over 5000. 000.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
HAVE BOXING HORSES.
Initiating Gorbett and Jeffries Trans
nlant the Cake Walk in Paris.

Paris. Oct. 20-The cake walk, which
dominated Paris for the past II months,
is supplanted by two beautiful boxing
horses They stand on their hind legs
and fight round after round like Cor
bett and Jeffries.
The people applaud wildly when one
of the horses gets in a home thrust and
knocks out his opponent The steeds
even know the solar plexus stroke.
They are so we'll gloved that they
rarely hurt each other. They are
beautiful pair of Arabs
The other night one of them made the
other bleed from the nose. and it must
be said however regretfully, that the
ladies were loudest in their applause
when they saw the 'claret" flowing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20

longs, covering the distance in 1:13 fiat.
This is the fastest race run at the local
tracks this year with the exception of
the worlds record of I'll 4-5 set by
Dick Welles at Washington at Wash
ington park. Golden Rule won easily
finishing two and half lengths in front
of Grand Opera.
The third track record was made in
the fourth race, when Sidney G. Love
won as he pleased, covering the mile
and a sixteenth in las 2-5, as against
1:46. the old mark Byways was Sec
ond, length in front of DR.. Stephens
Our Bessie, heavily backed favorite,
finished last, beaten off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Remedy.

No one who is acquainted with its good
qualities can be surprised at the great
popularity of Chamberlaip's Cough Rem
edy. It not only cures colds and grip eff
these diseases from resulting in pneumo-
MIA 1t is also a certain cure for croup
Whooping cough is not dangerous when
this remedy is given 1t contains no OPT
UNI or other harmful substance and NAV
be given as confidently to baby as to
an adult. 1t is also pleasant to take. When
all of these facts are taken into consfd-
Grafton it is not surprising that people in
foreign lands, as well as at home, esteem
this remedy very highly and very few
are willing to take any other after having
once used il. For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Racing at Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. 20.-Three track records
were broken at Worth. In the second
race Thane at to 1. easily won from
Ethel Wheat, the odds-on favorite, and
made a new track record of Ia 1-5 for
the mile and 100 yards, clipping two
ffths of a second off the old mark
In the next race, Golden Rule with
113 pounds up. clipped fifth of a sec
ond off the old track record for six fur
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
railad to KNOCK Grim out.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.-Joe Cans, the
lightweight champion, and Joe Grim,
the Italian pugilist of this city, who
stood six rounds before Bob Fitzsin-
mons and received severe punishment
last week. met last night in a six
round fight at the Washington sporting
club. sans had the better of the fight
from beginning to end. sending Grim
to the floor one or more times in nearly
every round. The Italian received a
severe pounding but the colored cham
pion was unable to knock him out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
a cofevville Residence Burned.

Coffeyville, Kan.,' Oct. 20.-The resi-
dence of I. L. Jones, a real estate man,
was burned Sunday. and the family
barely escaped from the house with
their lives. Mr.. Jones lost all his
household goods and $500 in bills, given
him the day before for the purpose of
buying real estate. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Notes from BALDWIN.

Baldwin. Oct 20.-The state Y w c.
A. convention which is just closing it's
session in Baldwin, has been a success
There are about IT'S delegates here and
the programme a very strong one.
Bishop McCabe will lecture in the col
lege chapel tonight.
The evening recital given by Miss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Wellington Drug Store Closed.

Wellington, Oct 20. NJ. Stanley,
owner of drug store and one of the
Oldest citizens. was closed up Monday
on two chattel mortgages aggregating
$4,000. One of these is for $500 and in
terest which the Farmers State bank
holds; this they will assume. The rest
is the original loan made direct to Stan
ley 1t is not yet known how they will
dispose of the stock or what part in the
matter Stanley will play.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Makes Good Tax Collection.

winfield, Kan. Oct. 2o.-The county
treasurer has just completed his annual
tax settlement for 1902 and it shows the
best collections in the history of the
county. The delinquent list was only IA
school census enumerator, who recently
made a statistical report found that the
valuation of school buildings in Cowley
county exceeds that of any county in the
stale
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20

Helen Hobbs of Lindsborg, was very
much appreciated Miss Hobbs as an
impersonator, displays much talent
Mr.. C. NJ. Goodin has been elected
manager of the college baseball team
Mr.. Allen of the basketball, and Mr..
Roy Wilson of the tennis.
A large marty of students attended the
Mime. Susanna Adams concert at Ottawa
Monday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Horsethief catchers to Meet.

Winfield, Kan, Oct. 20.-The Anti
Horsethief association will hold ce1e-
bration here Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of this week, with delegations
from Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian
Territory in attendance. President
WaM. of Parsons, and Secretary Nc
Carly. of Valeda, arrived today. Two
thousand delegates are expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
A New Ursuline Building in Paola.

Paola. Kan, Oct 2O-The Ursuline sis
tiers have started the work of excavating
for an additional building to be erected
on their grounds here. The new struc-
ture will be of brick and will be -four. sto-
ries high. It will cost about $4,000 A. B.
Anderson of Kansas City is the architect.
THE Ursuline sisters came here in 1894.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Chicago Teams Compared.

Chicago. Oct. 20.-"Danny" Green, who
led the white sox all season with the
stick, was the star batsman Of all the
regulars in the post season series for the
tie. Slattery who got into four games,
heads the list with an average of 454,
and Harry White, who figured in eight
of the contests, had an average of 400,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
N!Ic!:k!.HRA1r. !; ; 4; !: :,
iQene.y@kAEaScS SLkc,asRR TRAIN

Three Express Trains East every day in the year.
Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars on an
Trains. Trans Continental Tourist Cars leave
Chicago Tri-We ekiw on Tuesdays and Saturdays
at 2:5o p. m. on Wednesdays at 1895 .. M.
Chicagot to Boston without change. Modern DIM
ing Cars serving meals on individual club plan.
ranging in price from SOC to 81 90; slso services
q la carte. Direct line to Fort Wayne Findlay.
Cleveland. Eric. Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse.
Btnghanton, Scranton. New York City. Boston
and all points East. Rates always the lowest.
Colorod porters in uniform in attendance on all
Coach Passengers. II you contemplate = trip
East, call on any convenient Ticket Agent, or
address JOHN 2 CALLAHAN. GenT Agent,
11S Adams St.. Chicago, NJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Has a Fractured Skull.

Abilene, Oct. 20.-Jacob Golden,
young farmer south of town, was thrown
from his buggy while driving west of
town, sustaining fractured skull and
being badly bruised. He has not re-
gained consciousness. What frightened
the horses is unknown. Probably it was
& bicycle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Pioneer Resident Quits Mayfield.

Mayfield, Oct. 20.-Dr L. F. Harmon
has sold his office and residence pro-
perty to DR.. Norton of Neosho and will
leave tomorrow for Chicago where he
will attend medical college for a year.
Dr. Harmon is one of the oldest doctors
in Mayfield, having been there since the
early days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Racing at st. Louis.

st. Louis, Oct. 20.-Dan McKenna won
the fourth race. the feature at the fair
grounds McKenna jumped into the
lead, closely followed by Little Scout, the
favorite. McKenna raced the Bennett
horse into submission and came on,
winning easily in the fastest time for the
distance at the fair grounds this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
A Love Letter.

Would not interest you if you're looking
for guaranteed salve for sores, burns or
piles. Otto Dodd of Ponder, Mo, writes
Il suffered with an ugly sore for q year,
but a box of Bucklens Arnica Salve cured
me. It's the best salve on earth. 25c at
Arnold Drug Co, 821 North Kansas ave-
City Ticket Office, Union Pacific
Railroad. 525 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20

removed a piece of oak wood about
three quarters of an inch long and
nearly one-half an inch in diameter,
that had been buried there over %
years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
Tree Yielded 40 Pounds of Honey

Paola, Kan, Oct. 20.-F. NJ. Beagle,
farmer living five miles south of here.
cut down a. tree on his place, in which
he found 40 pounds of honey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching. blind, bleeding or protruding
piles. Your druggist will refund money if
PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure you in 6
to IL days. SOC.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Tips In st. PetersburE.

Speaking Of high prices, Henry Nor
mans book Oh Russia throws some in
teresting light on what 1t incidentally
costs to visit ST. Petersburg. To begin
with, he tells us every house and hotel
there contains a swarm of servants,
and each one expects a tip. The man
who takes your coat and hat at a pri-
vate house thinks 10 cents little enough,
and If you give dollar or two to the
attendant who performs the same mod
est service at an official residence he is
only satisfied. The tips of wealthy
Russian to waiter at good restau-
rant are something enormous. A de-
cent room n first class hotel costs
about 81 day, and closed carriage to
take you to dinner, ten minutes drive
away, costs SIS. A few sheets of note
paper in your hotel costs you a shilling
and the cheapest kind of bath 81. st.
Petersburg is far and away the most
expensive city in the world.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Loves Final Age.

"The last age of love in a mans life
Is the dotage," says Dorothy Dix In
Ainslee's. This is peculiar to wealthy
old men, and its most pronounced
symptom is mania for presenting
diamonds and opening bottles for
chorus girls, who call him papa. AT
other times in mans life he has some
slight misgivings about love being al
ways conducted on a reciprocal basis,
but when he reaches this age he throws
fears to the winds. He knows he is
loved for himself alone. The man at
twenty-five doubts his power to win a
woman's heart. The man of seventy
five is cocksure that he is q charmer
nothing feminine can resist. He knows
the ratio of his fascinations has in
creased with his advancing years, and
he QUAR- with his family, who are
cruel enough to suggest that the debu-
tante he leads to the altar may have a
weather eye on his will.
THE last age of love is the most dan
gerous of them all and Is generally ia
tai. In fact, love Is like the measles
1t is safest and goes easiest with man
when he has 1t early in life"
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
The Extinct auaxrs.

The Quasga, the half cousin to the
wild ass, has vanished from Africa
and only exists as imperfect specimens
In the European museums.
The Quagga exists as a name still in
South Africa, for the name has been
wrongly applied to BurchelPs zebra,
but the true Quagga, which took its
name from its cry ''Quacha." has been
extinct since 1872, when the last of
his or, rather, of her race, for this
Quagga was a female, died In the Lon
don Geological sOciety's menagerie.
Its extinction in South Africa was
due solely to the zeal with which the
Dutch farmers hunted It for it's hide,
and It is saddening reflection that
thousands of Kaff1rs used to be fed on
1t by their Boer masters.
The idiotic wastefulness of thus ex-
terminating a species becomes the
more marked in view of the fact that
the Quagga, which was midway be-
tween zebra and a wild ass, could
be broken to harness and was the
braveSt as well as the hardest of ami
mails. Some Boer farmers used to
keep tame quaggas on their farms to
Craze with horses in order to protect
them from beasts of prey.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Solving 1t.

Patrick, thrifty tradesman in the
neighborhood of the Dublin docks. was,
the story goes, man who never spent
penny more than he needed to spend,
but he was nevertheless as good man
at the making of an Irish bull as any
who lived between Bantry and Bally-
castle.
Having one day occasion to send a
letter to place some distance, Patrick
called a messenger and asked him his
price for going such distanc.
1T ill be shillin'," said the man.
"Twice too muchi" said Patrick. LET
it be siXpence."
"Nivver," answered the messenger.
''The way is that lonely that I'd nivver
go it under a shillin'." -
Lonely, is it?" said Patrick, scratch
ing his head Faith, an ye're right.
Now, man, I'll tell We what We'll do;
make it sixpence, an I'll go wild We to
kape ye companyr'
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Stmge Ice Cream,

That make believes of the stage
aye not so easily detected now as In the
days when Mr.. Joseph Jefferson was
beginning to earn his reputation as an
actor is shown by this story of dramat-
ic business" In the earlier days of the
Walnut Street theater in Philadelphia.
There was scene in the course of
which servant was to enter with
lights.
I'm those days" said Mr.. Jefferson,
"sea island cotton was stage ice cream,
Just as molasses and water was stage
wine, sherry or port, according to the
proportion of molasses. The actors
were seated at the table where they
had been enjoying such viands as
these. and their dialogue was making
the very best sort of an impression on
n crowded house.
"Then In came that maidservant
with the wabbliest sort of candelabra.
The scene was so engrossing that she
was scarcely noticed, but when she set
down her burden on the table and one
candle tOppled out and put the ice
cream in a BLACKWELL, the entire au-
dience burst into laugh, and the cur
tain had to be rung down."
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
CanlcIH In AfrfCa

At the present day camels are used
for all sorts of domestic purposes in
Africa. They may even be seen draw
ing plows in the interior of the regency
of Tunis. You may remark a woman
and a camel harnessed to the same
plow. and you hesitate to decide
which is the greater outrage. They
are also used for drawing water from
the strange. cumbersome, old fashioned
wells of north Africa. Their chief use,
however, is for caravans You may be-
hold them bringing in huge cases of
dates from the oases, or you may see
them with great tentlike structures of
red silk upon their backs. These tents
are for the conveyance of Arab women
of the upper classes, who seek to main
tain the privacy of the harem when
on a journey. Two women and some
children are often accommodated on
one camel. They have cushions ON
which they can lie down and even
sleep. 1t is stuffy, and it is dark, but
they deem themselves well off in escap-
ing from the searching rays of the
burning sun.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
A Freak Tree.

Probably one OF the most remarkabl,
curiosities In the world is the twin tire,
growing In the province of Loire, south
ern France. This marvellous freak OF
nature consists of two healthy trees
some twenty feet high, with brilliant
foliage. the top one actually growing
upon the lower.
A cavity was formed In the upper
trunk OF the bottom tree. which was
filed with decaying bark and the ac
cumulated dust and debris of years
This became a sort of bed, from which
sprang the roots and in time produced
the upper tree. Contrary to all the
laws of horticulture, the life of the tree
has not been injured in the least by Its
parasite companion on top.
The top tree is a lime, and the peas
ants In the neighborhood make occa-
sional pilgrimages to this tree, as they
make sort of tea from the buds of the
lime, which, they say, on account of its
peculiaI growth and situation, has
mysterious and beneficial powers IL i'm
bibed
The lime is firmly rooted in the lower
tree, having withstood the rayages of
the wind for years, and seems to be
nourished as well as If it were growing
In the natural soil of the earth.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
system With a Method.

81 have nearly run my legs off going
about department store making few
purchases for my wife," said the man
with the bundles. Il believe that 1
was directed to six different parts of
the establishment for each article l
bought. l was sent upstairs, down
stairs, across the shop, along the aisle
and from one point to another, just as
though nobody knew where anything
was"
You evidently don't understand the
SYSTEM" suggested his friend.
Indeed l don't If 1t Is a system. It
is beyond my understanding" he an
swered.
well. it is a system that is not with
out method" replied the other. You
did not realize it, but 1t was a great
exhibition of stock for your benefit. 1t
would have been a great deal of trou-
bic to have seated you ON one of the re-
volving stools and brought all of the
goods in the store and paraded them
In front of you; so you were. started off
and directed from place to place so as
to make tour of the eStablishm mt
and get general view of the goods in
each department Do you see the ad-
vertising scheme?''
Il believe that you are right, my
boy, for that is the only rational ex-
PLANTATION of the proceeding" = New
York Herald.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
The Ancient Hour.

The early Egyptians divided the day
and night each into twelve hours, a GUS
tom adopted by the Jews or the Greeks
probably from the Babylonians. The
day is said to have first been divided
into hours from B. G. .293, when sun
dial was erected in the temple of Quiri.
nus at Rome. Previous to the invention
of water clocks, B. G. 15S, the time was
called at Rome by public criers. In
early England one expedient of meas
uring time was by wax candles, three
inches burning an hour. The first per-
feet mechanical clock was not made
until about A. D. 1850. Day began at
sunrise among most of the northern ma
tions, at sunset among the Athenians
and Jews, at midnight among the Ro-
mans, as with u.s.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
First European Railway.

The first carriages that ran on rails
In Europe We're those of horse rail
way between Linz and Budweis, in
Austria. This was In working order
in 1927. Locomotive railways were
much longer coming. The first line, in
modern sense, was opened from Paris
to st. Germain in 1885, but railway
development was greatly hindered by
a terrible accident on the Paris-Ver.
sailles line in 1S42. The next was the
Brussels-Malines line in Belgium. Bel.
gium was also the first country to be-
gin, in 1880, systematic plans for ma
tional network of railways. Prussia
followed in 1885 and Austria Hungary
in 1888 The first great trunk line In
Europe was from Paris to Rouen
opened in May, 1S43.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Real Sea Serpents.

In New Caledonia sea serpents are
frequently seen and sometimes cap
tured- They are curious creatures, the
head being very small and scarcely
distinguishable from the body and the
tail being formed like an oar. In length
they are generally between three and
four feet
In the jaw there are tiny glands con-
tanning poison; but, as the mouth is
very small, it is difficult for them to
bite, and the natives handle them fear
lessly.
M. Kermogant, European traveller,
witnessed an experiment at Noumea
which shows that under certain condi-
tions the sea serpent can do deadly
work. A rat was caught in a trap,
and Its tongue was grasped by pair
of pinchers and placed in the mouth of
a sea serpent. The serpent immedi-
ately bit it, and the rat died in four
minutes.
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Re..t r1x !. IL Lamb 1n oh,n..

A correspondent of the North China
Herald writes this dissertation upon
roast pig: How little western writers
understand the Chinese! Who has
not read and rejoiced over Lambs
Dissertation Upon Roast PigT 1t is
not everybody who has the chance
of seeing Lambs fascinating story
worked out in real life. In the begin
ming of the present Chinese year I
passed through a busy market village
where the people kept many pigs. In
the middle of the night a fire broke
out in the market village and de-
stroyed the whole place. No lives had
been lost, but most of the pigs had
been roasted, especially those too fat
to run quickly. Roast pigs! Burning
houses! Lambs story in real life!
Quite naturally 1 remarked that some
folk must have had splendid meal Of
roast pork in those days. To my sur
prise the natives asked with disgust:
"a splendid meal! Who would eat
that sinking, smoky stuffT The
palate of the Chinaman absolutely re-
jects smoky roast pork! All that mag
nificent epicurean description culmi-
mating in the one word 'crackling'-a
delusion, a yarn, a lie! 1 gloated over
that yarn when a boy and grew ex-
cited as the story went from one page
to another. Now to find the whole
thing go up in smoker
Amador ledger., 1903-02-13
Bnre Feet and Earth

There is nothing like having both
feet on the ground, says Medical Talk.
If man should go barefoot, the con-
tact of his bare feet with the earth
and his head projecting into the at
mosphere would make a perfect cleo
trical conductor, through which the
electricity Of the air would pass
through his body to the earth. While
no apparent harm is done. yet, being
insulated from the electricity of the
earth by wearing shoes, the electricity
fails of its beneficial result There can
be no doubt that it would be better for
everybody, especially nervous people,
II their feet were on the ground instead
of in shoes.