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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
IN AUTUMN DAYS.

by w. A. McKeever.1
In the autumn days
When a gloomy haze
Comes over the earth and sky,
And the sandhin crane
Going south again
Gives forth a lonesome cry;
Then l turn my face
To the old home place,
And utter a longing sigh:
o, I want to go back home again,
AS the autumn days draw nigh,
And eat of my mothers gingerbread
And also her pumpkin pie.
This wandering life
With its tolls and strife
May be all right in the spring;
And in the summer. too.
When the skies are blue,
And toll is in every thing;
BIT when short days come
and the harvest's home,
This one refrain 1 sing:
o. want to go back home again,
As the autumn days draw nigh,
And eat some of mothers gingerbread
And also her pumpkin pie.
When life is done
And my race is run,
And I shall cease to rove;
When trails are past
And / find at last
That nothing endures but love;
When the last leaf falls
And g still voice calls
Me away to my home above
Why. / want to go back home again
Once more before i die,
Where 1 ate of my mothers gingerbread
And also her pumpkin pie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison GIobe.l
How many kin stories the people
knowl
Fist fights are not as common these
days as formerly, and that's progress.
An Atchison man is running his nat
ural disposition by trying to be agree
able
When we hear a man say that he has
a conscience. we watch MIN a little
more closely.
We have remarked that a good Re-
publican can produce figures that put
everything on the Democrats.
After women marry they can be said
to be reasonably happy if they don't
spell brute with a big B..
Whenever we read an obituary we
are impressed with the fact that people
must be better than we thought they
were.
Every day in this big wide world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

The Cleveland PlaindeaIer has been
figuring out the census statistics with
the following result; With a million as
the basis of calculation, at the end of
seventy years there will still survive
$4,000 out Of 1000, 900 persons. At the
expiration of eighty years there viii be
iO7. 900 survivors of the original million.
When it comes to ninety years of ex-
istence only S,S41 out of the 1000, 600. or
one in rs, will be living. OF the orig
inal 100000 only fifty-four will live to
see the ninety-nine years, or about one
person out of 1850. The century mark
will be reached by only % out of the
1000 000."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

give vent to such an expression. The
fight between Curtis and Bailey has
been a long and bitter one and win be
continued until one or the other goes
down to defeat. Be this as it may they
should both remember there is nothing
gained by personal abuse and thaz no
one viii believe that either of THESE
gentlemen is a liar or a thief until it
is proven by stronger evidence than the
mere word of a political opponent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
REFLEoT1oNs OF A BACHELOR
[F'rom the New York Press.l

LFTom the New YORK Press4
Speculation is a good thing to teach
people how to economic afterward.
A woman can always believe thing
unless there is some reason for bellev-
ing it.
When a woman happens to under
stand a Joke she has a sneaking suspi-
cion 1t is a pretty poor one.
1t must have been an awful strain on
Cinderella when she tried the slipper ON
not to pretend it was too big for her
Between thirty-five and forty-flve
there is not one woman in fifty that does
not dye her hair. and the reason sia~
doesn't is because she doesn't have TO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Daniel Boone's original signature will
be displayed in the historical section or
Missouri's exhibit at the Worlds raIr
Boone located in Missouri in 1896 and
was commandant of the st. Charles dis
trict, comprising what is now Warren,
st. Charles, Lincoln. Montgomery, How
ard and Boone counties. He was the
chief military and civil officer, and
signed all tax receipts. It is one OF thu
latter, now in possession of the Missouri,
Historical society that will be shown at
the Worlds fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

The Herald has been making one OF
its secret postal card canvasses of New
York-the Manhattan. Bronx and
Brooklyn boroughs of New York The
returns indicate that at present Seth
Low and George b Mcclellan are very
evenly matched. what slight difference
there is being in favor of the Tammany
man. Manhattan and the Bronx will
elect him if he is elected. and Brooklyn
will defeat him if he is defeated. The
voters who haven't made up their mines
yet are numerous enough, according 70
the indications of the postal card can
vass. to swing the big city in either d.
Eection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Members of the w. c. T. u. are max
ing a row because Secretary Hitchcock
rode in a brewers private car. That
seems small matter in comparison
with the fact that nearly half the cost
of the governments existence is paid
by the makers and vendors of beer and
whisky. How can these good ladies'
stand it to live in a country largely
supported by revenue derived from
such so11rces2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Steel trust securities continue to de-
cline. Steel common was originally for
the most part given away. and is not
supposed by the business world to rep
resent anything but prospects. But it
was sold to poor people. who were
tempted by the big interest. The com
pany has paid out nine dividends of one
per cent. each on over $500. 900 of
common stock. While the stockholders
have received SO a share, they have
seen their stock shrink about $40 a
share The latest dividend declared is
put half the size Of the others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

To the municipal ownership crank.
the ideal government is one under
which nobody is allowed to make any
money.-Detroit Free Press.
Not quite so bad as that. He merely
objects to having people make money
without earning it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Democrats might learn a lesson from
New York The way to overcome a
formidable Republican candidate is to
place his name on the Democratic
ticket. The Republicans can then be
expected TO drop him and nominate a
weaker man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
n ortn Carolina Fipa.

Four or five bushels of fresh figs
brought to Charlotte have led to the
hint that North Carolina, where the
figs grow naturally, might profit in
raising them to dry and preserve other
wise. Why not? North Carolina farm
ers have hardly begun to touch their
possibilities in conjunction with indus
tries Ffg-packing plants may lead to
other forms OF Investigation in agri-
culture and manufacturing.- Farm
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Wyoming will try an automatic gal
lows for disposing of her criminals.
This method comes very near to
scheme to promote suicide. 1t wouldn'
do at all for New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

The United States surprised the world
by moving out of Cuba according 10
promise. If Russia had acted In a SIM
liar manner lin Manchuria the world
would have received another surprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

This years crop of cantaloupes has
led the Chicago Tribune to the belief
that there is a Ben Davis variety be-
ing marketed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Colonel Bryan's daughter, it is noted,
stood for free and unlimited matri-
mony without waiting for the consent
of ANYBODY on earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Sir Thomas Upton has gone home
without the cup but he managed to
take his vermiform appendix with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

The price of oil has been advanced
three times recently. Another donation
to Chicago university must be about
d11e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

The newest word out is 'newspa-
periety" The derivation and meaning
are obvious and probably it has come
to STAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

A Wathena pear tree celebrated its
Gortieth birthday by bearing six bush
els of fruit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

The Panama canal seems to have
gone out with the hat of the same
name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Steel ranges at Forbes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

Our first day we spent in taking a
general survey of things, walking along
the streets. looking into the stores and
riding by bus and boat through the
c;sy.
The buses were smaller than those
in London, not SO comforta BILE, nor
nearly so many of them. The seats ran
lengthwise along the center of the top.
instead of across. not nearly so salts
factory as the English pattern. The
fare was three cents of our money The
same rate was charged on the street
cars. which were also double deck:
some of the latter were run by COM
pressed air.
A ride down by the place of the old
Bastile brought US to the river. At the
site of the old French prison, destroyed
in the Revolution, there is a tall column
surmounted by a statue representing
Liberty. About the wide area, setting
in the pavement, are narrow stones in
dicating the boundary of the prisos
walls
Up and down the Seine regular boats,
taking passengers from one part of the
city to another. touched by the river,
at a fare about the same as was
charged on the cars and buses. In
this manner we rode down the Seine
for several miles. passing near many
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05
THURSDAY. FEB. 5, 1908.
UNLAWFUL.

And now, it seems apparent why
G ov ,rnor D Die awaited instructions
from Secretary Hitchcock before
making move in the matter OF the
Fire Claims money and bonds. He
was evidently afraid to invest Com
missioner Pratt with the necessary
authority to act in the matter, as he
is now in Washington, but W. o.
Smith, as soon as he arrived over
there, immediately cabled to
"Sandy" to gi7e Mr.. Pratt the
power to act in concert with the
Interior Department in the expedi-
tion of the matter. And instead OF
doing so, as Nephew Dole (recent|y
divorced from his once beloved
young spouse, who seemed to have
proved too much for him, by treat
ing him most cruelty in the way Of
causing him such mental anguish,
that he was nearly disrupted by
nervous prostration) was on his
way to Washington to argue in the
Osaka Mankichi case on appeal ia
the Supreme Court, he threw the
opportunity his way and invested
him with the duty Ct taking along
all data desired pertaining to the
fire claims.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

The Republican Commission have
not thought OF making any provi-
sion for the creation and establish.
ment OF single municipality. Why
did the learned (7) members OF that,
now renowned, Commission fail in
this duty9 Ought not the city OF Ho-
nolulu be blessed with municipal
rule? Instead OF only creating couu-
ties, why not erect this city into
municipality? We feel that we need
it and that we should have it, by all
means. Let Honolulu enjoy the
honor OF the frat municipality by
inaugurating it, aod at which place
all other ambitious towns may see
aud learn OF the ways of doing
things political and otherwise. Pro.
badly, the majority party is afraid
to trust the Hawaiians with the
selection Of their own officials, while
they may enjoy the benefits to be
derived from this much desired
boon, for, in granting it, it sees no
hope ahead for them for some years
yet to come, as they will be surely
dumped in the mud. In granting
Honolulu municipality, they see
breakers ahead for them, and there
fore, they were most careful to ignore
it. BY all means, let us have it,
others may follow suit in due course
OF time after we have had trial.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

sEst- Parties wishing to dispose os ntf
ni. n 'ntvNe''
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

We think that Governor Dole
was misrepresentsd and mis- quoted
by tue Bulletin into saying: THE
law requires me to certify the
claims. | have done so once aud
shall not do so again. Thers are
sixty seven hundred OF them"
When did he ever certify TO the
Il 9 claims award? Ii he has done
so once. it is unbsknown to anyone
else, unless it bo to himself alone,
i. O., in his own mind. To certify
to over 67O0 claims is no small work
in itself and no one is to be blamed, !,
il he has already done SO onee, no.
to wish TO not do the work agan.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

1t was probably at q former meet
ing of the Board OF HealtF, when
the market proposition OF Senator
Achi was being considered, that the
President plaetd the matter in the
hands OF enc Of the members for ia
vestiRa.ion, and that member wea
more other than NJ. P. Rotinscn
To thiuk OF if, it msde US smole a
smile, for the reason that that same
member is an Interested party 10 tie
property where the proposed mar
ket is TO ba located. Not suspect
ing him Of any wrong doing, We
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05
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Claus SpTacsGls & Co.,
B.A.N Ts-MLS 3.
HONOLULU
51a Franoisoo Agents. ia
INA TI0NdL BANK OF SdNFR

DRAW ExoHAHGs OK
SAN FRANOIeOO-Tb Nevada nsauas
Bank of San Francisco.
LONDON--The Union Bank o: Lohion
Ltd.
NEW YORk-Amerios.. Exchange Ne
ticpal Bank.
OBIOAG0-Merohants Nationsl Bank.
PARIe--Credit Lyonna,a.
BBRLIN-Dresdner Bank.
HONG KONG Ard YoK0uAMA-E ous
Kong q Shanghai BankingCus rornticn
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
Bank OF New Zealand.
VIOTORIA AND VANOouVEK-Bani
of British North America.
Transact Gs'ssral BGnkin1 end E1e ltx
Btsssnsss.
Deposits Received. Lcane made on
proved Security. Commercial aud Tfavei
ers Credit Issued. Bills of EEohanta
bought and Hold.
ooi.eoticus Promptly Acc ante Teg
IN
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

1t took the Governor over a week
to await instructions, and this is
how he did it, hs entrusted tho
matter to his nephew (poor man,
who may yet feel the strain OF an
other mental anguish from this
onero us task, which be, IS Attorney
General, hardly ever helred 10
mske,) to carry on to Federal betd-
quarters. We are not certain
whether any pay went with this
investiture OF making his nephew
the bearer OF cert ain necessary data
required; il there il, We shall soon
learn OF it by and through the
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

nevertheless think that he should
not have been the one to investigate
the creation of market upon pro.
perty in which he is one Of those
Interested.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

B7ing the bearer of FIRE claims
data, how much is E P Dole to be
paid for the service? Will he be
likely to be paid for doing such a
service, or is it gratuitousl Well,
we don't know,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

All data having been asked for by
cable, every Information possible
should be sent; and il it was neces-
gary and important for anyone to
have taken it, we are OF the opinion
that one OF the Fire Claims Com
missioners should haye been sent,
or the clerk alons could have
gone, either OF whom knows more
about those claims than the former
Attorney General ever did know,
or even any Of thoss who represent
ed the Government before the Fire
Claims Commission. We feel that
this would have besn the more
proper course than the one now
adopted, though the course adopted
may be the cheapest in the long
run.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05


In the matter of the certifca,ion
OF the fire claims awards, as re-
qui!ed under the loan bill passed by
Congress, we are OF the opinion that
there is no need OF certifying TO
every claim. a list OF all the claims
can be made out from the judgment
records and one certfcation would
answs for the whole, after attesa
tiop, to its correctness by thu clark
Of the Fire Claims Commission. That
woul be simplifying the work and
expediting the matter.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05

Legislature. OF course, it is known
that the United States will pay K.
p D3lcs travelling expenses, but
we are not aure whether he will have
a chance to open champagne bottles
for o,hers over there; and perbaps,
on the strength OF it, the Governor
OF this Territory is trying to get off
easy as "cbeap guy"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-02-05
TOPICS OR 7RE DAY.

Dole admits at headquarters, in
Washington, that he don't know
what to do, as per the following
cablegram forwarded to Secretary
Shaw:
Honolulu, February A, 1903
Secretary Of the Treasury, Wseh-
ington: How and where will million
dollars be paid, Fire Claims ? What
data require d from here?
IOLE, Governor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19

land drills. 1 do not believe In them. My
theory is that swimming is natural TO the
human race-not an artificial and acquired
accomplishment. 1t is true every one has TO
learn il, but they have to learn walking
and running. For intellectual mastery OF the
movements and muscular practice in them
on dry land 1 would substitute the feel of
the water and experience in il.
mo, / don't find the regular bathing dress
too heavy. L know men think the skirt i'm
pedes movement, gets in the way and is
opinion of it than that. Girls learn TO swim
as quickly as boys, which tends TO show that
the costume doesn't count for much either
way. Three lessons of thirty minutes each
ought to be enough for a grown woman TO
learn the stroke in. for one doesn't have TO
be an expert swimmer In order to keep her.
self above water or to find pleasure in the
performance.
''Then, aside from the life-saving aspect,
swimming is splendid form OF exercise for
a woman. One may never be placed in a po-
sition to save another from death; one may
never be placed in dangerous position ones
self, but there Is always the fun of the thing
and the satisfaction of the strong chest
and shoulders that Ii develops. AS a system
of physical culture, there is nothing TO excel
swimming. IL makes the thin woman full
and symmetrical, it takes off saperfiuous
flesh from the woman who Is overburdened,
and 1t affords stimulus. brace and strength
to every one
Although Miss West is so young in years,
she is ola In natatorial experience. She has
swum the Narrows no less than ten times.
the first time being in September 1900, when
"a crowd Of folks dared me to do it." She
swan in company with Lieut. William Will
son, of the Volunteer Life Saving Club, OF
Fort Hamilton. Since then she has swum
the distance from Forth Hamilton to Staten
island nine times-a distance of five miles.
Three times she has swum for the Life Saw
ing Corps. Already Miss West has won two
medals. One is a silver medal offered by the
Volunteer Life Saving Corps Of Fort Ham,
ilton in swimming competition last sum-
"A
goal-indeed, she was the only one of the
contestants to complete the course of five
miles. The other medal is the woman's
conda Athletic Club at it's meet last sum-
mer. The distance was 40 yards, and Miss
West won over seven other contestants.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19
HOW SHE LEARNED TO SWIM.

Jew York Tribune

new tOTh IIlDune-
Il was just sitting on the dock with a
crowd or boys and girls, and somebody
pushed me off into the water and I hogan
to SWIM and I've swum ever since" is the
way Miss Florence Anna West, the sixteen
yedr-0ld girl who is going to teach SWIM
ming at the Board of Educations bathing
school at Fort Hamilton. explains the
manner In which she learned to swim.
Miss West Is a pretty girl, who stands 4
feet ~ inches in her stocking feet and
weighs li2l2 pounds. Although she rides a
blcycle, plays golf and tennis, she SAYS none
OF these things compare with swimming
swimming and diving-these. TO Miss Flor
rie's mind, beat all other sports.
Strangely enough, however in a world
where the professional woman athlete is
forging 10 the front, Miss Fiorrie intends
To make her swimming accomplishments
strictly secondary In other words she
means to be teacher of mathematics.
I'm swimming confidence counts for every
thing" says Miss West. eff you have conf
dence, you can keep up any old way Now
my sister, VINO Is two years older than l.
can swim all right as long as she thinks she
is not over her depth. but the minute she
finds out or you tell her, that the water Is
deep. il is all over with her. She drops dead
in her tracks. She gets paralyzed She can't
lift hand or foot. She'd drown IL we didn' I
look after her.
It's my opinion that anybody can learn
10 swim one hears women say. oh, I'm
too old 10 learn 10 swim. When ole ;.ets TO
thirty past it's no use tryinl 10 learn I
do not believe ft one bit. Nv exp.rience goes
10 show that the middle-aged person learns
swimming as easily as child Only he or
she must really want to learn. Sometimes
you see a woman kicking her feet around in
the water and pretending that she is taking
a swimming lesson. She isn't. She's only
showing of her bathing suit
Some teachers place great emphasis on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19

under roof. In this are included the pens,
office and horse barns. The pens are thor
oughly equipped for the rapid handling of
stock. whether in transit or to be disposed
Of at this point. Railroad switches from
yards.
At the horse barns facilities are had for
the stabling of more than 15OO held of
horses. The stables are provided with all
modern conveniences, including padded
stalls, private compartments and complete
veterinary hospital There is also large
arena for exhibition purposes.
The huge barn used by the Indianapolis
Cattle Sale Company for its business is also
thoroughly equipped for the handling of
it's extensive business.
The following conduct the business at the
Indianapolis Union Stockyards:
Belt Railroad and Stockyards Company.
IS. E. Rauh. president; H. c. Graybill.
traffic manager; H. d. Lane. auditor.
Commission Merchandise. A. Ray & Co.,
Wilson & Osborn, Baber & Co., Graves,
Nave e. Co., c. w. Reynolds & Co., Jeffery,
Voris & Co., Clark, Wysong & Co., Powell,
Deere & Co., Jeffrey. Offutt & Co.. Harrell,
Tibbs & Gish. Mansfield G. Co., Fletcher.
Beeler & Co., Winchell, Hawkins & Co..
Valodin. -Pasr, Moffett & Co., Neaville, FL
lott & Johnson, Stockton, Gillespie. Clay &
Co.. Mattern, McGrew, Sawyer & Co., Mid
ellsworth, Benson, Coburn G. Co.
Purchasing Agents.-D. A Kahn, A. B.
Tolin, Kramer & Woldt, Herbert Sawyer,
B. H. Barnett & Co., L. H. McMurray & CO.
! Auction Sales-Horses and Mules.-Blair-
Baker Horse Company, Warman-Black-
Chamberlain Company.
Registered Cattle.-Indianapolis Cattle
Sale Company, David Wallace. Manager.