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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
THE B. 8 8. WREcK.

The terrible wreck on the B. & O.
railroad at Dawson, Pa, Wednesday
doubtless brought grief to many homes
that should have been glad at this
merry Christmas time. 1t was one of
those disasters which are calculated
to make people believe in luck or spe-
cial providence. OF all the safety ap-
planes zand systems of signalling
danger there was none to fit this case.
The double track instead of prevent
ing the wreck contributed to it. The
timber which fell on the track might
have fallen on the opposite side and
saved three score lives, but it didn't.
In it's annual report the interstate
commerce commission calls attention
to the large number of collisions on
the railroads during the year ending
June 30 last. and the appalling loss of
life and property that resulted. The
report says that while the showing
cannot be called materially worse OF
materially better than that of the pre-
ceding year, yet the mere continuance
of the record. though it be no worse
than in former years. is a disgrace to
the American people, painful to every
careful observer. That 100, or 11S, or
any large number of passengers are
killed in the United States in the course
Of year in a single class of accidents
indicates a condition which should not
pass without serious attention" There
will certainly be universal acquiescence
IN this view.
The commission suggests that the
best thing to do is to introduce the
block system on all railroads, remark
ing that this is what England has done
and the immunity from collisions on
English railroads is so nearly complete,
and the casualty records so low as to
be powerful argument for its adop-
ton A law like that in force in the
United Kingdom is recommended. But
the block system would not have saved
the B. & o. train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
"Opsn-Air Treatment

A season like the present always has
a bad effect on the health of animals,
whether wild or part of the live stock
of the farm. But this is due partly to
constant exposure to wet and damp,
which domesticated animals have often
not the same means of avoiding as
they would enjoy in natural freedom.
and partly to the crop of parasites
which such seasons engender in the
ground they lie upon, in the grass they
eat and in the water they drink. AS a
rule they are far healthier in the fresh
air than under cover. 1t was noted in
the South African war that the con-
slant life in the open air led by our
soldiers did more than anything else to
promote health. Sleeping every night
on the weld, often in the rain, constant
ly in frosts which whitened every bIan-
ket in the morning, and with absolute
ly no comforts, they actually improved
in health and physique when the food
supply was at all adequate. On the
other hand, like the animals, they suf-
fered incredibly from water-borne dis
eases when the supply was tainted.
But the "open air treatment inciden-
tai to the conditions of the fighting was
a steady source of strength and vital
|ity.-London Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

turret pointers and q per cent of the G.
inch pointers made 100 per cent. 1t is
interesting to note that all of the pa
pointers who fired on the preliminary
practice are either citizens or have de-
clared their intention to become citi-
zens. OF them, 767z per cent were ma
tive born Americans, 151z per cent were
naturalized citizens, and per cent were
aliens with intentions declared.
Pointers are now selected regardless
of rating. the only quality considered in
their selection being ability to shoot.
There is a keen spirit of enthusiasm
and competition among the men to be-
come pointers, and to encourage and
reward them trophies have been offer
ed, for which ships will compete an
nually. Liberal prizes will be awarded
gun crews after each annual record
practice, and extra pay. will be given
to men who qualify as pointers in ac-
cordance with the provisions of an ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
eUAKER REFLEcTIoNs.

FF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Contentment is the best cure for
wrinkles.
There's msny q slip 'twixt the draw
and the jackpot.
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast and the bald head
Some mems idea of popularity is to
have great, big funeral.
The man who agrees with nobody
thinks everybody else is wrong.
When the egotist talks he expects US
to be all ears, while he is all rs.
There are some people who would
like to convert the Golden Rule into
cash.
ITO the pure all things are pure"
and yet we continue to boil the Schuyl-
kill water.
The fellow who wears the Ioudest
clothes doesn't always make the most
noise in the world.
If we were all as free with assistance
as We are with advice, the world would
be different
Many a married man envies the
bachelor his Independence who
wouldn't know what to do with 1t if he
had it.
When q man is as perfect as his
wife thinks he ought to be-" says the
Manayunk Philosopher, hes about
due to get measured for a pair of
wings"
Mrs. Buggins-sT am thankful there
IS no family skeleton in our closet
Mr.. Buggins-' SkeIetoni Why, there
isn't even room for nv one suit of
Clothes"
Rfdicule is but a shower;
Treat it with disdain
Twill be over in an hour;
Let it rainI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

Cleveland Leader: Beyond question
the highest value of Christmas giving
lies in it's uplifting of human nature
through unselfishness. and by the appeal
which it makes to wide interest in
others. In that respect it is one of the
vital moral forces of the world. 1t is
the strengthening Of fine and beautiful
instincts in mankind which gives the
best of holidays its greatest value. That
fact alone much outweighs all the err
rors and foIlies which are more or less
connected with Christmas giving and
the celebration of the day sacred to
good win and human kindness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

shoes, while the South and Central
American countries also take greater
or less quantities, though not in pro-
portion to the amounts taken by the
West Indian Islands, Mexico, and Can
ada. To Asia the exports from the
United States are small, the British
East Indies and China being the chief
points of destination for the exports to
that continent. Australia is large i'm
porter from the United States, nearly
one-sixth of our exports in that line
being to British Australia Africa is
also a considerable importer, especially
British Africa.
An interesting fact developed in a
comparison of the figures of exports
of boots and shoes from the United
Kingdom and the United States is
that the value per pair of the boots
and shoes from the United States is
apparently about so per cent. greater
than that of those exported from the
United Kingdom. The 1902 figures Of
exports of boots and shoes from the
United Kingdom show 1885, 56 pairs
valued at SO, 229, 1923, or 81 cents per pair;
while from the United States in the
same year the total number of pairs
exported was 3,966,766, and the stated
value Sc, 1S2.09S, an average of $1.56 per
pair. Thus the average value per pair
of boots and shoes exported from the
United States is apparently more than
so per cent. in excess of that of boots
and shoes exported from the United
Kingdom. Yet, despite this higher
price for the United States product, the
growth in exports is much more rapid
than in those from the United King
dom.
These low average prices are ex-
planned by the fact that the statements
of pairs and values include infants
and children's shoes as well as those
for adults, and the values given are
based upon wholesale prices.
The above estimate of more than
seven million dollars value as the ex-
ports of boots and shoes from the
United States in 1903 relates to the cal
endar year. for which complete figures
are not yet available. The fiscal year
figures are, however, complete, and
show the total value~in the year end
ing June 80, 1903, as S. 665, 317, the num-
Der of pairs being 4.1s7, 566. OF these
4,197,566 pairs exported during the fiscal
year. nearly one million pairs went to
the United Kingdom; while 400, 974 pairs
went to British North America. 399. 482
pairs to the British West Indies, AIS, 3S9
pairs to British Australasia, and 1877. 3Oe
pairs to British Africa Thus prac-
tically two-thirds of our exports of
boots and shoes went to the territory
of the United Kingdom, our chief COM
petitor in supplying the boot and shoe
markets of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
Sporting Notes.

Yale's crews may take winter practice
on rowing machines.
Tommy Feitz is to box Chester Good
win IS rounds at Boston tonight
Benny Yanger and Jack O'keefe are
to become partners in business in Chi
Mini Rowser and Eddie Kennedy are tc
box 10 rounds near Pittsburg tonight.
Perry pullman knocked out Fred Wy
att IN three rounds at Vancouver, b. e.,
last week.
Dick case, the welI-known Seattle box
er, died of consumption at Yakima, Cal,
the other day.
the hospital in time for the Florida
meet
their annual indoor athletic carnival in
the armory Broad and Callowhill streets
on Saturday night, March g.
South Africa has the bicycle fever, y
| than sG.oO0,eoO. OF this amount 100000
worth came from the United States.
Dave Sullivan is in Boston and an
nounces that he is ready to take on any
body at 12S pounds, Young Corbett, Terry
McGovern and Jimmy Britt preferred
Monroe Salisbury and his trainer, Char
with a couple of car loads of horses, in
Guiding Judge Green, Mush, Consuela s.
John a. McKerron, 2:O415. has recov-
cred from the slight lameness which
caused him to be thrown out of training
last summer. and the prospects are good
spring
Griff Jones has gotten entirely rid OF
the grippe and he is rapidly getting BACK
into good form. He is open to box any
lad in the country at us pounds, Hughey
McGovern. Danny Dougherty or Jimmy
Allen preferred
william K Vanderbilt, jr., has engaged
a suite of eight rooms in the Hotel Or
monde for the Florida beach races. lie
will take with him to Florida his thirty
horsepower Mors machine and ninety
HORSEPOWER Mercedes.
Barney Oldfeld promised San Francis
cans to return there next season to race
The champion was pleased with his treat
ment in San Francisco, but not SO IN Los
Angeles He says that under no condl-
lions will he again race in southern Cal
ifornia-
Eddie Bald and Tom Cooper will start
soon on an automobile racing tour of the
Pacific coast under the management OF
w H. Pickens, former manager of Coop
er in the cycle racing field Bald viii
drive 1he 90-horse-power car of Tod Sloan
and Cooper will drive the new Mathewson
car
Moses Strathern, center of the Mime
sofa football team. has been elected to
captain the 1904 team. Strathern has ono
more year in college and his work on the
gridir0n this fall has placed him IN the
center position on the all-WeStern team,
and on the second all-American team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Now Editor Murdoch. will you be
good.
The "boss- busters are busted or dis
gusted, which?
Carbonate pupils caught whispering
have 80 minutes taken from their noon
hour.
The idiot that removes taps from
family buggy wheels resides in Elk
county.
Most of the Solomon school children
earned their Christmas money picking
chickens.
Mr.. Nigh and Miss Knight, of How
ard, were very properly married late in
the afternoon.
The Kansas City newspaper boomer
of Editor Hoch should move into Kan
sas and get acquainted.
The Grenola stork is laid up in the
hospital for repairs. s"Toting too many
twins is the assigned cause.
The churches at DuBoise will get
along with one Santa Claus and why
not let the public unite In one church.
Moline's first automobile passed
through town this week and the chill
dren thought it was Santa Claus COM
ing.
The Hays City News will discard its
Washington hand press for cylinder
providing the subscribers do the proper
thing.
Syracuse is as prlln ana proper d loNlA
as the puritanical code save that her
alleys are filled with tin cans and
trash.
An unsuccessful revivalist at Milton
vale wrathfully declared that the Chris
tian women all had cold feet. Now how
did he know?
An economical Burden citizen avoids
the expense of phone by the claim that
his wife would neglect household duties
to visit over it.
A Seneca citizen is leaving Kansas
for Little Rock to go into the pickle
business. He will probably get into q
pickle all right.
If two Carbonate lads had gone to
Sunday school rather than skating they
would have been down for a Christmas
present and escaped an icy bath
A Chanute man has returned to town
after a long absence and tells how he
once hunted jackrabbits where the prin-
cipal business houses now are located.
Norton families must depend on the
town COW for cream for their coffee on
the first day of the week. The milk
train has cut out their Sunday sche-
dule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

From the AICniSOH
A woman never gets hungry.
Well, Santa Claus is as well attested
as Uncle Tom"
A man doesn't have to be proud to re-
sent being called Bud"
A new charge against Atchison is that
seven-tenths of the husbands are hen
pecked.
When a woman past thirty attempts
to look pensive, she only succeeds IN
looking cranky.
About six weeks after a woman mar
ries. she removes her husband from the
pedestal and puts her own kin up.
A woman hasn't really enjoyed the
Christmas rush if her husband can re-
cover from the bills before the first of
April.
A man thinks a girl likes all her
friends until after he has become well
enough acquainted with her to be hon
ored with her honest opinions.
While Ed Houck has not decided to
enter the race for governor deep down
in his honest old heart he thinks he
could show a jack rabbit how to run.
They are pointing with pride to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
YOU WILL BE ALL
SMILES AGAIN.
Forget Your Stomach and You'll Have
a Santa Claus Face.
HOW TO DO 1T.

If there is one thing more than all
others that will give man forlorn
and friend1ess appearance and make
him morbid and cranky" and disagree
able, that thing is dyspepsia. 1t makes
one forget his friends and become
morose and irritable He is so wrapped
up in his own misery that he is incon-
sidarate of everyone else. Relieved OF
this terrible and depressing ailment, he
again becomes q good fellow and
man among men.
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets are be-
yond question the most effective and
popular remedy ever offered to the
sufferers of this terrible disease. The
thousands and thousands of cures they
have brought about and the enormous
increase of their sales fully attest the
truth of this statement
They are. above all a natural rem
edy. They possess exactly the same
properties that the gastric juices and
other digestive fluids of the stomach
possess and they actually do the diges-
tive work CT the stomach and anahle
that organ to rest and recuperate and
become sound and well. They act in a
mild, natural manner and cause no dis
turbance in the digestive organs They
prevent any fermentation of the food
which causes sour stomach. In fact,
under their influence the subject for
gets that ne has 3 stomach and his
resulting cheerfulnesS presents great
contrast to his former detection.
Millions of boxes of Stuart's DvsDeD
STA Tablets are sold annually and they
are but in the dawn of their popularity.
Every mail brings letters of thanks
giving from grateful ones who have
been cured of this terrible disease. The
following is one of hundreds received
each week:
Rev. ]. R. Hoag, of Wymore. Neb.,
writes: For six years 1 have been
troubled with dyspepsia. Last fall I
became very much alarmed at some
symptoms of heart trouble and came to
believe there was sympathetic rela-
ton between the two diseases. or rath-
er, that the stomach trouble was the
cause of the heart disturbances I hit
upon Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for a
remedy and invested a dollar and a
half for three boxes. which lasted me
three months. and I can eat any kind
Of food 7 want and have a good, Wig
orous appetite. Although 1 am "A
years old, 1 now feel perfectly we'll, and
without being requested by anyone I
make this statement as a compliment
to the virtues of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrOm the Chicago News1
What women sigh for is long life with
out old age.
It IS natural for a cannibaI to love his
fellow man.
blanket mortgage will not keep a
house warm in zero weather.
If your guests fare i'll with you they
are apt to say farewell to you
Lots of things he doesn't want comes
to the man who is impatient.
When man is popular only with wild
ows he isn't anybodys first choice.
It's a fortunate thing for the average
man that all his prayers are not ans
wered.
Fortunately for stupid people, the
weather changes often enough to supply
them with something to talk about.
If free advice were half as valuable as
the giver would have you believe he would
be too busy counting money to hand it
OIIf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

best husband in town. Now watch
every man glow with the belief that he
has at last been found out, and is about
TO be appreciated.
Times are getting so hard, owing to
the fact that Ed Houck is not governor.
that men buy five cent cigars these
days, and not only save the bands, but
save the remnants of the match for
kindling wood.
reception given lately by Mrs Hor-
tense, and, on taking leave of the host
ess, he shook hands with her very high,
and said: Mrs. Hortense, your party
was sweet" He learned that in Wash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
An onaga Child Burned.

Onaga, Kan, Dec. 25.-The 7-year-old
dauehter of Thomas Wills was sent by
her mother to replenish the kitchen fire.
It being low, the child poured on sup
posed coal oil, but it was gasoline. Her
left side is dangerously burned and there
is little hope of recovery. When lucid
she means: "Oh, mamma, can't go to
the Christmas tree
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

The Democrats are not bothering
themselves about a candidate for vice
president. They know that Adlai E.
Stevenson can always be relied upon in
an emergency
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas has
licked another justice OF the state su-
preme court. There is a good job wait
ing for the governor in Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

A ST. Louis Worlds Fair Information
bureau has been established at 903 Main
street, Kansas City. in charge of Mr..
L. S. Mcclellan, where information will
be cheerfully furnished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter appears to
be receiving less notice out of prison
than he did while locked up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

Omaha Bee: The best way to insure
q happy Christmas is to do something
20 make others happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

EMPIRE

Broadway and SD ST.. N. Y. City.
Telephone in Every Room
Rooms 800 per Day and Upwards
fine library of The Empire has
,bo,oa It+ara+,,re long been the ia
sH0iee vorite hotel for
1or the exclusiVe tourists visiting the
use CT our guests metropolis
Restaurant noted for the excellence Of
its cuisine, its efficient service and mod
crate prices
From Cram Gen. eraate- n,,r,rher
tTal station take e =
"Broadway to Fort the Hotel Empire
Lee Ferry and than anx other
in seven mfn,itegs hotel in the city.
From all Ferries. Steamboats, and Ocean
Steamers walk short block to Elevated
Railway and take 18th Ave to 18th" street
from which hotel is one-m minute walk =
10 minutes to Principal Theaters and Shopa-
w. JOHNSON QUINN. Prop.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24

II seems that at last Jackson is to
have a morning paper and we will
say here, that Jackson is the only
state capital in the United States that
doesn't boast of a-morning journal.
OF the coming paper the Greenwood
Commonwealth says; There is a
substantial rumor afioat to the effect
that J. D. McKie of the Biloxi Re-
view, and HI. E. Blakeslee. formerly
of the Tupelo Review, are to launch
morning daily in Jackson about the
first of the new year Jackson needs
good morning paper and the right
sort of publication would doubtless
receive substantial support from the
people of the state. -
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24

Col. f. G. Barry OF West Point, in
a letter to the Confederate Veterans
published at Nashville, Tenn, make.
the following reference to some brave
Mississippians who did service in the
army OF the confederacy: Il find the
following names in Vol. XII, Series
1. page Sl3, War of the Rebellion
Official Records, on. the "Roll OF
Honor for bravery at the battle OF
Hanover junction in 1884 which was
read to every regiment in Lees army
at the first dress parade after its re-
ceipt: tPrivate j. G. Halbert. Com
papy f; A. L. McJunkins, Company
II; James NJ. Gillespie, Company / /:
G.. W. williams. Company K J. of the
Eleventh Mississippi Regiment. whose
gallant colonel, r. o. Reynolds, lost
an arm Ia the very last battle, Peters
burg, Vn. ;"
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24

The following appreciated notice il
from the Ellisville New South: 1.-THE
New South favors the formation OF a
new circuit and chancery court dis
trlct for this section by the next leg
islature. The legal business of the
piney woods has grown to such enor-
nous proportions that the judges are
greatly overworked. and are unable tc
do Justice to the legal business now
pending in the courts. We want te
see these districts formed, and We
want to see Caps. W. FL. Hardy APP
pointed Judge of one of them, az a re
ward for his labor of love, for THU
section of our state.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24

It will be remembered that three
weeks ago The Progress gave an ac-
count of the arrest by Edgar S. Wsl-
son, deputy U. s. marshal. of Charles
Parks. postmaster at Mechani,sburg.
Yazoo county. on . charge of shortage
in his accounts, and the outcome OF
the matter is given in the following
from the Yazoo Herald: "Mr. Charles
Parks entered plea of guilty of be-
ing short in his accounts as postmaster
at Mechanicsburg in federal court at
Jackson last week. After receiving
the plea Judge Niles sentenced Mr..
Parks to six months Imprisonment in
the penitentiary at Atlanta and TO
nav q fine Of 800 and all costs. Perd
ing an appeal 70 the president for
pardon, the Imprisonment of Mr..
Parks was held up until the next term
of the federal court in Jackson.
Should the president refuse toremit the
| sentence, Mr.. Parks confinement will
begin. In the msantime he will cir.
eulate petitions requesting the presi'
dent to remit the sentence. Mr.. Parks
has a great many friends who deeply
sympathize with him in his trouble,
and who will be glad to sign bis pc
tition for pardon. These friends dc
not believe that he wilfully em5ezzlet
the postoff1ee funds. but that h''
shortage was due to bis careles
methods. He has lived in the county
for a number of years and has born
a good reputation. The Herald be
lieves that the ends Of Justice viii
have been met should the imprison
mens be RENTED by President Roose
velt''
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24

The Greenwood Enterprise says
that "a corporation with capital
of 81, 500, 900 has been organized to
pump wafer from Stafford Springs to
New Orleans. The pipe that carries
the water will be 100 mics long.
vossburg is $50 feet higher than New
Orleans and when the pipe is LAID
they can shoot Stafford water over the
highest house in New Orleans. The
contract has bsen let and it Ia prom
ised that it will be completed by Ma,
|, 1904"