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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20

spice mill would last four rounds.
There was great expectancy John
Caldwell, black as a box of Congress-
man Morses's Rising Sun stove polish.
was to be known in the ring as The
Tea faster and Joe Currey, who acts
as librarian and butler for the E2lks,
responded to the cognomen of Coffee
Cooler" and was as brown as the wig
that Hazel Kirk used to wear 20 years
ago.
Dis II be de piece de resistance. said
Buster Clark as he stationed himself
near an iron post to act as bell boy to
keep the fighters from dragging their
anchors and wrecking themselves at the
post.
The Cooler and the faster stepped
to the center of the ring and CAPTAIN
Waters clapped his hands They were
off.
Round The Cooler jabbed at the
faster with a right hand hook that had
a barb on it. The faster ducked and
ran for cover, but was flushed by the
spectators who sent him back to the
center of the ring. The faster rushed
things and for a few moments made the
Cooler look like a house moving horse
at work on the windlass He went
round the ring q few times on a trot.
They came together in the center with
the noise of two self binding harvesters
in a head end collision. Time was
called with honors easy and Captain
Waters all smiles.
Round 2-The faster assumed the copy
righted fighting position of Jim Jefries,
a Ia the crouching monk Of a hand organ
brigade He displayed his musical talent
in wonderful style and fiddled for an
opening. His bowling and technique were
perfect. The Cooler was getting warm.
Smash him. Cooler" said someone in
the crowd Whats that2" said the Cool
er. turning round to hear the advice. The
faster had found his opening and he land
ed The blow sounded like a man with
O rubber hose beating carpet
Round 3-The fighting and the footracing
were terrific On the first lap the Cooler
was ahead. but on the second lap around
the ring the faster passed him and came
under the wire first The blows were be-
ing landed faster than the slaps from
Capt. Curtis patented kicking machine.
The faster thought it was time to stop
and went over and sat down in his cor
ner He was told to keep at work or he
would be locked two bits Of his share in
the purse for not working full time.
Round EThe Cooler had everything mis-
own way and the faster seemed groggy
or eggnoggy- He slipped and spared and
stumbled and the Cooler peppered MIN
right and left. Suddenly the faster
Strengthened up, hung his arms at his side.
stuck out his chin and looked right mean
at the Cooler The Cooler pranced round
! him like a bantam rooster peeking at an
elephant, but he would not close in The
faster looked bad to him. They slapped
each other twice. claimed the So purse
and the spice mill was over.
Capt Waters went home and the big
event was a page in T. a. A. history
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
BAND WAGON HIT EN-.
Eastern Baseball Magnates Com
pIain Of Vests Action.

Cincinnati Jan. 20-After being in
session until almost 2 O'Clock this morn
ing members of the National baseball
league held early conferences prepara-
tory to the session today. As it is neces-
sary for President Pulliam and Mr..
Dreyfus. who represents both Ptttsburg
and Philadelphia at the meeting and
other members to be in attendance at
court in Philadelphia tomorrow morning
it was desired from the outset to make
every possible effort for some solution
today of the pending disagreement.
After being in session three hours yes
terday afternoon and six hours during
the night, the league, sitting S commit
tee of the whole so as to avoid contempt
of court, concurred in seven of the sec
tons in the articles of agreement that
were adopted at the joint conference of
the national and American committees
in this city on January TO- It was sup
posed that there would be no objection
to the sections passed upon, but the vote
stood to throughout. The New York
and Brooklyn clubs voted against them
because they were incorporated in an
agreement to which they were strongly
opposed as a whole although they would
otherwise fully concur in each of the
seven propositions which referred to
contracts. reserve rule. advance money,
schedules, rules, national agreement be-
tween major and minor leagues etc.
The lea que sitting as a committee Of
the whole did not consider the nine sec
lions Of the joint agreement in their
order but left the third and fifth 20
the last Almost all of the session last
night was devoted to considera ton Of
the fifth section which describes the
circuits Of the American and National
leagues respectively and here the fight
was on the admission Of an American
club in New York. The third section
to each club, was not taken up at all at
the long meetings yesterday and last
night although it was informally at
at conferences after the adjournment
and again this morning. While New
York and Brooklyn were alone in the
minority report of all the sections here
tofore considered there was considerable
debate as to how Boston would vote on
the third and fifth sections. In dis
cussing the fifth section the representa-
tfves of the New York club are said to
have at first wanted the borough Of
New York exempt from the An lean
league. and afterwards all Manhattan
island. But the members who had
served on the conference committee in
sisted that they had done nothing to
help the American league get into New
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The crowd grew thicker and thicker
II. K. NanHook, manager of ceremon-
les, stirred around among the specta-
tors and the more he stirred the thick
er the crowd became, just like por-
ridge. At nine O'Clock the smoke could
have been canned and saved for future
use 1t was like a London fog. The
click of the billiard balls, the crash of
the ten pin balls, the staccatO thuds
of the chess men, the swish of the cards
in the high five game and the snap Of
the ping pong balls could be heard
through the smoke but nothing could
be seen.
And the captaini OH The captain.
where was hep A relief expedition was
formed to search for him. The expedi-
ton cut its way through the smoke to-
ward the pole not the North pole. but
the vaulting pole in the gymnasium
room They found Captain Waters
leaning against the wall like wax
figure. His eyes were set. He was
almost asphyxiated by the smoke of the
long green tobacco in the cob pipes, out
he was restored by internal applications
Of water and external applications of
cider. He refused to leave his point
of vantage, but stood CALAMITY to his
position waiting for the big mill.
The crowd became anxious and the
Tt was 10 o'clock before the preliminary
bouts We're put on which were to lead
up to the big event. It was rumored
that the last large event would be sone~
thing real choice, and on the side it was
quietly told that it would be a go to the
finish and that a knock out would be ex-
DeCted,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
IT DIDN'T THRILL.
Growing Feature of 4. A. A.
Smoker Was Tame.
Boxing Match Between Tea
faster and Coffee Cooler.
THE CROWD WASLARGE
In All Other Respects the Event
Was a Success.
Hon. J. 6. Waters Viewed the
Festivities.
THE CROWD WASLARGE

The real sporting event of the winter
season was pulled off at Topeka Ath-
letic Association rooms last night with
out any interference whatever from
the police.
John Caldwell, THE Tea faster
and Joe Currey. The Coffee Cooler
wound up the festivities of the evening
with a four round bout which was
fast and furious from the start to fin
ish
The sporting element was invited to
attend what was to be called
smoker A 10 gallon key of cider and
a clothes hamper full of doughnuts
were on duty as long as they could
stand the pace but both gave out be-
fore the smoke cleared away and the
meeting was called off.
The crowd began assembling at 8
o'clock and J. G. Waters Immediately
chose a point of vantage near the ring
side He leaned up against the wall
waiting for the gong to ring which
would call the contestants together.
He waited an hour. The air became
50 thick with tobacco smoke that hams
hung on the ceiling would have been
cured in II minutes. Still the captain
stayed by his post, but the ''pugs,"
Oh. where were they.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20

York and if the American club had no
grounds in that city the joint agreement
would not assist them any and 1t
provided for an American franchise III
that event in some other city.
It was also argued that everything had
been fully considered in the conference
committee before the joint agreement was
signed by the conference committee and
that it would be impossible to make any
changes or ask any additional concession
without referring the whole matter back
to the conference committee and causing
such complications as would probably an
nu all that had been accomplished While
it was evident that there was much feel
ing between some of the eastern members
and western members when they met yes
terday it was still more plainly observed
TODAY as they were grouped about in sep
arate conferences The members of the
league will be in continuous session behind
closed doors today unless an agreement IS
reached earlier than is now expected until
it is time this afternoon for President Pull
liam, Mr.. Dreyfus and others to leave for
the hearing of the injunction cases at
Philadelphia tomorrow morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20

Lyman and Kerns spared three
rounds with much flourishing of arms,
perspiration, pulling and running. Alb
meyer and NogeI gave an exhibition on
the parallel bars and a three round box
ing match for points The crowd was
uneasy. Captain Waters looked on dis
gusted Then red haired young man
with regular Martin Julian air an
nounced that the real big mill OF the
evening between the aforesaid Tea
faster" and Coffee Cooler "a spice
min. would take place, and that if the
crowd would refrain from smoking il
would not be necessary for the contest
suits with the fresh air hose run out
doors for ar.
Pipes were bowed, the doors were
some real ozone into the room for the
benefit Of the bellows apparatus of the
fighters.
quite interested. His face shone with a
smile which penetrated through the
cloud Of tobacco smoke.
The master Of ceremonies announced
that the hat would be passed for a col
lection and that the mill would be at
the rate Of IS round. The derby hat
went the rounds and the coin jingled in.
When it came to Waters he dropped in
q dollar which was SO heavy that it
came near going through the hat and
carrying the collection Of nickels, dimes.
pennies and chicken feed with it. The
hat held So and it was announced that
as IS went into Slz four times that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

Frank Grimes new house in Orchard
Place is nearing completion.
The government thermometer ranged
between 21 and IS Monday.
Judge Hazen refused to grant the pc
tition for new trial in the Billiard BIZ
BILE case.
w. NJ Welcome was knocked down
by a bicyclist this morning but was not
seriously hurt
Charles Allen, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. J. Allen of 1410 Logan street,
is i'll with typhoid fever.
The Auditorium never looked so well
as it does now with its hangings of
green and many colored booths.
Abe Brubaker secured judgment in
the district court Monday afternoon
against Nicholas Chiles for $223. OF.
There will be meeting of the Topeka
Gun club tonight at the store of Jesse
Elliott It viii be the annual meeting
of the club.
rip Van Winkle'' as given by the
Thurston Comedy company at the
Crawford last night could not well have
been any worse.
John Mundin, the young man who has
been charged by the police at various
times with stealing, was sent to the Re-
form school Monday.
Quite a number of Topeka Masons
are attending the reunion of Scottish
Rite bodies in Lawrence commencing
LOQdy anu COAllnQiLS Until y.
F. w. Knapp of the United States
marshars office has been helping the
journal clerks in the house get started
with their work. Knapp was journal
clerk two years ago.
Several new lavatories are being put
in at the federal building. The ma
terial and workmanship put in their
construction will make them about the
finest things of their kind in town. The
entire inside finishing of the rooms is
to be marble.
A banquet at which about 100 mem
bers of the local Knights Of Pythias or
CARNATIONS viii sit down will be held
at the oxford hoted this evening The
BANQUET is in the nature of an annual
affair, and is principally in honor Of
the newly installed officers of the
lodges.
Secretary Anderson of the Commercial
Club is dickering with the Hiawath>
Manufacturing company which exhibit
ed ineubators at the state poultry show,
and has prospects of inducing the pro
prietors to move their factory to Topeka
Major Anderson is looking up locations
about Topeka in which the new industry
may be housed
Ia all probability the study rooms
and observatory tower of the new
building at Washburn college will not
be ready for use for a month or more
yet. The building has not been heated,
although the heating plant is ready for
4 operation with the exception Of laying
the steam conduit between the build
ings. Until the observatory is heated
the workmen can not complete the in
side painting and finishing.
The following is from the Atchison
/ Globe: There was q pitiful scene eli
the union depot today when the pas
sengers We're getting on the Missouri
Pacific train going north. A blind man
/ led his wife. an imbecile. across the
platform 70 the train. while woman
from a Woman's Aid society in Topeka
/ followed carrying their 2-year- old child
1 The mans name is Stewart. and he and
his family. all helpless, were being ia
ken from their home in Topeka to rela-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
Onlv . Little Excitement.

1t was a newspaper man from Boston
who found himself in the Office of 4
Montana weekly newspaper as a depu-
tation of citizens. headed by Jim Larri-
son, entered and informed the editor
that the public demanded he should be
on his way out of town inside of two
hours.
4 see. gentlemen. I see.' replied the
scribe, as he rubbed his hands together
II really wish I had bottle to offer
you. How long can you remain with
me2"
What about your going?'' asked one
MY going2 All, yes. Gentlemen. vii.
you please return to the public ana
give them my condiments and tell
every mothers son of 'em to go top
You won't go2"
Not a rod. Let me ask If you are
subscribers to the Herald? If not.
shall take the greatest pleasure in"
But the deputation filed out. and when
the door closed behind them the Bos-
tonian Gueried of the editor:
But what are you going to do about
stOh. I'll have to go out on the street
and shoot Jim Harrison. who thinks he's
the public, and that will settle things
for another month. No hurry, though.
Any time after superb DO. Sit down
and light UP and tell me how you fel-
1ers in the east manage to get alone
without an excitement. I should think
you'd dry up and blow away
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A awarded

you keep in mind it is necessary for
them to be strong.
In the long run the man who is de-
cent IS AIT to be the man who is the
best soldier. The work among the rail-
road men always appealed to me be
cause Of the willingness of these men to
take risks TO accept responsibilities.
Those who follow that pursuit have
both the power to obey and the power
to act on individual initiative, the power
to take responsibility. You get among
a body of men like that and you can
make them accept morality if you make
them understand it is not only compati-
bic with but is demanded by essential
manliness.
THE work Of the Y. NJ c. A. has
grown SO among the college students
because it has tried not to dwarf any
of the impulses of the young vigorous
man, but to guide him Alright. 1t has
sought not to make his development
One-sided, not to prevent him being 4
man, but to see that he is in the full
est sense a man and a good man.Among
all these that are here 7 know that
the rest among you will Join with me
IN saying that We greet with particular
pleasure the men who served in the
great war Those men won the day Of
trial because they and their fellows had
in them in the first place the power
of devotion of an ideal, and in the next
place the strength to realize that power
in effective fashion.
Il do not care how good soldiers or
sailors they have been if their ambitions
had been personal. If Grant and Sherman
and Thomas and Farragut had not all felt
that they Were fighting for one end; that
they We're holding up the arms of the
mighty Lincoln as he toiled and wrought
and suffered for the people, then no prov
ess would have prevailed. This nation
would have gone down into bloody an
archy would have crumbled into dust a
SO many republics have crumbled before.
But they had to have more than that
They had to have fervent devotion to
country, to right and power to fight.
do not care how patriotic the man was.
if he could neither march or shoot he
was not any good.
.'ln addition to the lofty ideal. to the
power to devotion the man had to have
the fiber of heart, of body to make his de-
votion take effective shape for the nations
welfare. And so it is now in civil life, we
will make this twentieth century better
and not worse than any century that has
gone before it, because we will, like this
society. approach the problems that face
us with a firm resolution that we will
strive to make the young men decent.
God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving,
justice-doing and viii make them fearless
and strong, able to hold their own in the
hurly-burly of the worlds work. able to
strive nightly that the forces of right
may in the end triumph
Admiral Dewey, Secretary Root, Col j.
J. AcCook of New York. John r. Mott Of
New York and others spoke
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
LEADS WHOLE WORLD.
st. Louis First as General Shoe Dis
tribnting MARKET.

St Louis, Jan. 20.-As a general shoe dis
tributing market St. Louis led the world
in 1902. the manufacturers having shipped
out 11eI026 cases, IAN increase Of 96,075
cases over the shipments of the preceding
year. 1t has long been maintained by shoe
men that this was the greatest distribut-
ing center of the world and now every
body comedies it,
There has been a wonderful impetus
given to local shoe manufacturing, as can
he judged by the fact that receipts Of
shoes from outside sources fell eff 100000
ments We're a heavy increase and the trade
was supplied with a larger proportion of
St. Louis made shoes The manufacturing
concerns of Massachusetts make special
ties Of certain shoe varieties, while St.
Louis is a general shoe market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
Shot Accidentally.

ST. Louis. Mo, Jan. 20-Jay Lahmer
manager of the DR.. Scott Soap company
is dead a the city hos-ital He was
shot accidentally. it is believed while
alighting from an Easton ear at High
and Franklin street. but by whom il
is not known. The police are looking
for Cuddy Mack. saloon keeper and
a gang of four negroes who participated
in n pistol duel at the place named wheh
Lahmer was wounded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20
Group.

The peculiar cough which indicates Group
Is usually web known to the mothers Of
croupy children. No time should be lost IN
the treatment of 1t, and Ter this purpose
no medicine has received more universal
approval than Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy- Do not waste valuable time in expert
naenting with untried remedies. no natter
how highly they may be recommended.
but give this medicine as directed and all
symptoms Of Group will quickly disap
pear. For sale by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-20

tives in Nebraska City. Mrs. Stewart,
in addition to being an imbecile. has
the consumption
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-26

ground water level" The foundations
of the old eight story Mutual Life
building in Nassau street went down
only eighteen feet below the curb, rest
ing on heavy footings of concrete,
which, In turn, rested on the loamy
sand that Is known In New York by
the name of quicksand. To provide the
subcellars for the new building, how
ever, and to find an adequate support
for the monster structure itself bedrock
had to be reached
With this end IN view and also for
the support of the adjoining walls dur
ing the construction of the new build
ing the pneumatic caisson system was
called into service. A calsson is a gil
gantic alright chamber In which air
pressure Is maintained sufficient to OFF,
set the natural pressure OF the water or
silt Excavation Is carried ON by la
borers in the caisson, which sinks grad
ually as the excavation advances. In
the present case cylinders were sunk
by a l25 ton hydraulic Jack, and all
around the edge of the prospective
building system of cofferdams was
sunk In such IA way as to form an
enormous retaining wall capable Of
bearing any load. II is declared that
nothing save the collapse Of the giant
ribs of Mother Earth herself can ever
shake the foundations of this remark
able specimen Of the genus skyscraper.
GILBERT o. WOODSON.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-26
HOW zANewILL GOT HIS START.

1t was to an accident that Mr. Fang
viii owes his literary fame and tho
public the pleasure his books have Civ
EN- IT, Young 2angwill, who was then
a very junior teacher IN the Jews Free
school. Spltalhelds, was walking along
the beach OF a south coast watering
place when n page of a we'll known
weekly paper was blown by the breeze
across his path. Picking 1t up and
glanclng carelessly at II, his attention
was arrested by notice offering
prize for q short story. The young
teacher had never written a line for
the press and was extremely skeptIcal
of his ability to write n story of any
kind, but there was no harm In Will
ing away few hours in making an at
tempt. And thus 1t was that before he
retired that night he had written and
dispatched his story, which few
weeks later he saw again in all the
glory OF print. What has since come
from that stroll on the beach and the
lucky waywardness OF that breeze tho
world knows well.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-26
WHY WOOD sHAvlNos CURL UP,

A shaving of wood curls up owing to
contraction on one side and expansion
on the other This expansion Is accel-
Grated by what is known as the back
iron" or cap iron" which is used in
most planes. The object Of this "cap
IRON Is to break the shavngs into
short lengths and to prevent the cut
ting iron" from tearing or splitting the
fibers of the wood which lie always
more or less IN a santing direction.
The nearer the edge OF the back iron"
Is placed to the edge Of the cutting
iron the shorter the shavings are bro
ken off. These are smooth on one side,
and the serrations on the other corre-
spond with the distance between the
edges Of the two irons. An wood, too.
is formed IN circular rings such ne can
be seen in the section OF any uoo trunk.
II follows, therefore That When the
rings OF the wood Gre cut aoruys. a3
they are to certain extent IN The act
Of planning, they are relieved from tla
sion and curl up in the endeayor to ey.
pand themselves.