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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29

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LADIES-TO DO PIECEWORK AT
their homes; we furnish all materials
and pay from 81 to $12 weekly; send
stamped envelope TO Royal Co. 81 Mon
roe Street, Chicago.
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WANTED-A MAN THAT CAN MAKE
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THE AUDITORIUM COMPANY WILL
receive sealed bids for the lease of the
Auditorium up to March 9th. Bids
should be addressed to c. M. Busboe,
President of the Company.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO A GEN
eral collection agency which can be
relied upon. If one has served you
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me. Address, Creditor, care News and
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THE TRAINMASTER'S STORY.
By FRANK q. SPEARMAN.

Copyright. 1903. by F. H. spearman)
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W A N TE D-TWO statesmen FOR
North Carolina to sell on the road
factory lines of china glass and lamps,
We pay liberal commissions and can
place YOU in position to undersell all
competitors. Address. NJ. II. Pendleton
& Co. Richmond, Va.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-29

SMOKE La Josephine" and Young
UT,.i+
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1t wasn't the first time Dave had pull ed
me out of the water. About two weeks
before that l had crawled one night ur
on the front platform Of the baggage at
Peace River to steal ride to Medicine
Bend on No. l. 1t was Dawes train.
had been kicked out of the McCloud
Hospital two days before without a cent
or a friend on earth outside of the old
country. and | hadn't mind TO bother tho
folks at home any more, come Conan or
the devil
The night was bitter bad. black as a
Fuzzy. and sleeting out OF the foothills
like manslaughteT When the train
stopped at Rosebud for water what witt
gripping the icy hand rail and trying to
keep my teeth steady on my kuses J
must have been a hard sight. Just -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
WARE Am EXCEPTION.

The announcement that Mr.. E. F.
Ware will resign his office as commits
sioner of pensions makes it evident
that at least one Kansas man is will
ing to give up a job voluntarily. and
that, too. one of the best that the
president of the United States has to
offer. This is by no means common
occurrence. and for that reason it will
be- the more conspicuous.
Office holding is not always the sine
cure it seems. Many a man seeks a
political Office which does not suit him
afer he gets it. He finds there is more
pleasure in pursuit than in possession.
These remarks do not apply to Com
missioner Ware. for he did not seek
the place he holds. but it was urged
upon him by the president. The fact
that he does not like it, however, en-
Dhasizes the statement that holding
an Office often has its disasreeable
features. 1t is impossible to please
everyone, and those who are displeased
are bound to criticise the office-holder
as long as speech is free in this land
of the brave. The man who can make
good living pursuing his business or
procession will be happier nine times
out CT ten in that avocation than hold
ing public office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
IAYHAWKERJ oTs.

Parsons has three daily papers, where
one would answer.
Owing. to the price. ducks were subsLl-
tuted for turkey at Alma.
ssPetrolia'' is the latest town discovered
in the oil regions of Allen county
Flood soaked corn seems cheaper to the
Riley county farmers than 50 coal.
In addition to the Town Row EFnpor1a
can boast of a Matrimonial Bureau"
An advertised lost purse at Medicine
Lodge contained II cents and some hair
pins.
CoffeyviIle claims that IS cents a pound
Thanksgiving turkey offsets their wooden
awnings.
Father Time and the woodman's axe
have eliminated Beloit's famous old court
house ma pie trees
President Roosevelt evidently overlooked
his exchange table.
Hays City sports have raised 500 for
the pleasure of witnessing about two MIN
utes of a foot race.
The separate school fight at Coffeyyillie
has grown particularly vindictive. COT
feyville is close to Missouri.
raised on the town Site has ever been
charged or convicted of crime
The rails and the capital are alone lack
ing for a suburban line at lola The
grade has been completed for some time.
Owing to the Lou Dillon gait that a
number of Topeka small girls nave been
going lately the curfew idea seems timely.
It has come at last Editor Bent
Murdoch has organized an Editor Hoch
club with Editor Bent Murdoch for pres
| ident.
| A Wichita bartender claims to be a nat
ural artist He draws glasses of beer SO
life like that men walk blocks to drink
Them
Newton rejeices because in the last year
they have had neither fires, foods.
drouths. failures, epidemics or political
rows.
/ The lady night operator at Jennings has
resigned. The box car over which she
presided was rusty and full of nail
holes.'' 20.
| A gold bracelet was found at the Chris
/ tan church at Medicine Lodge and re-
| turned to the owner. How it escaped the
collection box is a mystery.
! Several confiding families in Cherokee
county are walking the floor these nights
They gave their feather, beds to a wan
| dering gang of renoyators to Clean
Complaint is made at Ottawa of the
cannon carried by the marshal. Wher
/ he fires al an unlicensed dog residents foi
blocks around hear bullets singing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
THE BLOOD oAusEs.

The reports of the engineers and
others that one of the causes Of the
flood last spring was the narrowing of
the channel of. the Kansas river will not
appeal to the person Of ordinary intel
ligenee who was in Topeka or at any
other point along the river during the
rise.
The fact that the ravages of the water
were quite as extensive and complete
where the channel was uno5structed as
here in Topeka would indicate that some
one is mistaken. The torrent that
swept over the territory at Silver Lake
and Rossville was just as destructive
as that in Topeka and the same thing
is true of the territory east of Lawrence
where the channel was unobstructed.
Whatever else may be said the fact
remains that the overflow and devastation
of the country were due to natural
causes. Had the channel of the river
been twice as wide as it was at the
time Of the flood it would still have been
insufficient to carry the great body Of
water that rushed down from the west.
Removing every bridge along the water
way would have done little toward miti-
eating the effect of the torrent that
swept over the bottom lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS.
[F'rom the Washington Post.l

theoretically, it is the duty of an ex-
ecutive official, aided by the courts. to
enforce all the laws within his sphere of
official activity. Theoretically, it is not
his business to inquire whether any law
is good or bad, liked or detested, but to
see that all the laws are faithfully exc
euted. The Personal Liberty League of
New York is an organization which rec
ognizes the impossibility of carrying out
that theory. and the inutility of at
tempting the impossible; and, perhaps,
it recognizes something else, the pro-
priety of which is less apparent. That
league, having applied for articles of
incorporation, finds its application turned
down by Justice Fitzgerald, of the New
York state supreme court, in the follow
ing very explicit terms:
In so far as the applicants propose to
organize for the purpose of advocating
the repeal of any existing statutes
which they believe to be iIliberaI and
opposed to the progressive spirit of the
age and with view to procure the en-
actment OF what they term wise and lib
eraP laws, their objects are entirely pro-
per, but, to the extent that they adVo-
cate the liberal Interpretation and en-
forcement of what they term 'onerous'
existing laws, they are attempting to
organize for objects which the court
cannot approve Administrative officers
are sworn to enforce the statutes and
laws to their best ability. and no cor
poration can be created for the aVowed
purpose Of embarrassing them, even in
the slightest degree, in the performance
of their duties"
Doubtless Justice F'itzgerald's deliver
anee is sound in law. It would be i'm
polite to charter d corporation for the
agoWed purpose of embarrassing Off
eials" in their efforts to enforce the
laws. If a law CRATES too harshly on
public sentiment there is no need of any
organized effort to nullify it. Such laws
ought to be repealed. for, if they stand.
they are simply sources of trouble and
expense. The statute books of many
states are numbered with laws which
experience has condemned and the en-
forcenaent of which is never dreamed of.
Other laws lie dormant most of the time,
but are occasionally revived, as often
for unworthy as for worthy reasons.
The great trouble in New York city
is that it is under laws made by men
who either do not understand, or, know
ing do not care for the peculiar condi-
lions of the metropolis. The agricultur-
al legislator is not capable of making
laws for the three millions of persons
who reside at the east end of the KIM
pire state Every attempt to apply the
excise and Sunday laws to that com
munity has been much worse than a
failure. Such efforts have insured prac-
tical immunity to felons. while they
have not secured the object sought by
the authorities. With the police force
occupied in vain effort to suppress
petty offenses, murder and burglary
have flourished This was the case UNI
der the Strong administration, and II
has been, to a large extent. repeated
under Mayor Low.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
wAsHBURN FOOTBALL

Washburn's football team this year
exemplifies this fact: that it is possible
for a championship eleven to be de-
veloped in strict Compliance with all
the rules governing amateur college
athletics. Every man on the team is
not only football player, but a stu
| dent, and nearly all of them have for
two years and upwards been taking
full courses Of study. It is a triumph
for clean athletics. It is victory to be
proud of.
When Washburn had it's great 1900
team, which by the way was twice de-
feated, once by Haskell and once by
Denver, there was a faint on all it's
victories because everybody was con-
WINGED that two or three of the stars
who did most of the work were getting
something besides honor fo% their work
This year, however, there was not even
as much effort made as usual to induce
good INA teriaF' to come to school.
Coach Kennedy took what he could get,
and certainly made the best of it. 1t
was, however, a good lot of light ma
terial. Nearly every position was filled
/ with an experienced player. There is
no reason why Washburn should not
continue its triumphant record next
year.
1t is said that two or three members
of the team, angered at the defeat of
their candidate for captain, threaten to
leave the team. and do all in their
power to discomfort the next years.
prospects. What a surprising position
to be assumed by sensible young men.
Who can object to the time-tried policy
of leaving well enough alone? If Wash
| burn has found a successful conbina-
ton of captain, coach and manager in
Dadisman, Kennedy and Leach. it
ought to keep the combination, by all
means. The interests of the school
should not be sacrificed to the personal
ambitions of one or two or half dozen
players.
Even if these dissatisfied players were
fully convinced that their man should
have been elected, it is in much better
taste for them now to bow to the will
of the majority of the team, and what
seems also to be the overwhelming ma
jority of the college and the whole com
munity. To persist in bitter animosity
viii do them no good, and neither will
t it injure the Washburn football pro-
spects. 1t simply makes it appear that
the knockers are trying to grind a
personal axe, and the public has little
sympathy for personal axes, as a gen
eral thing.
What Topeka wants, and what Wash
burn wants, is a team working as a
unit for the good of the school. If col
! lege spirit means anything nowadays
besides college yells, it means that stu
dents love their college enough to make
sacrifices for it. Shall it be said of
these two or three dissatisfied WASH
burn students that they are lacking in
college spirit?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.


A fool may live with cultivated people
all his life and never learn anything.
A tramp who applied at the police sta
ton last night for supper and lodging,
asked for the wine card
A very fortunate man lives in AtchiSon.
His kin lives in New York and his wife,
kin live in San Francisco.
When there is a danger sign up some
people get a reputation for bravery by
skating nearer to it than any one else
Some men are just smart enough to
to climb over all obstacles, and get to the
front.
Last summer George Martins wife left
him. Not long ago she returned to his
bosom and now Martins mother-in-law is
also here
There are some people who conquer
that detestahie sensation OF rivalry ex-
Of money at church.
Horse testimonial: 1T was all stove up
from overwork, and could hardly walk,
but after taking q few doses of Doe Rob-
nson's tonic. l ran away and attracted a
good deal of attention because Of my
speed
When it comes to weddings in Atchison
we have as long professions and as long
bills as any town. but we have never at
tanned the climax Of greatness IN hay
ing honorary pallbearers at a funeral
Six is plenty, and it is often hard to drum
up that many.
They are laughing at man in Atchison.
He has no ability, but he is a candidate
for everything. When a bank cashier dies
ne applies for the job, although he knows
road man resigns, he is candidate for
the position although he IS not a railroad
man. Being fool. he thinks he Is cana-
bic Of doing anything
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28

Venezuela is in another row. this time
sgith Spain over the arbitration of a
Mexican claim. 1t is said that the two
arbitrators, one from Mexico and the
other from Venezuela reached an agree
mentment awarding a Judgment of
about 100000 in favor OF Mexico but
that the Venezuela arbitrator was
obliged by President Castro to with
draw from the agreement. Thereupen
the Spanish minister to Caracas, who
was the umpire. concurred in the Mex
lean contentious with the result that he
was Immediately made the target for
such abuse as to force him to hastily
leave Venezuela. Just preceding this in
cident the Spanish consul at Laguira
WAS diseourteously treated by the Vene-
zueians at that port and the two incl
dents combined seem to have overtaxed
the patience of the Spanish govern
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28

check currency seeks to benefit the
masses. It is a government issue Of the
same relative value as the greenback
and is 50 controlled that it can be used
safely in the mails for the payment of
small accounts. 1t has host of friends
and no enemies. outside of a limited
class who oppose it because of self in
terest, The bill should become a law
at The present session Of congress and
it will, If public sentiment becomes suf-
ficfently aroused to express to congress-
men its views on the subject. Letters
to congressman from their constituents
will aid the cause"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record.


Ground Observation-Disclosures
Education is often more ornamental
than useful
It's a wise man who says nothing at
the right time.
The girl with dreamy eyes may still
be very wide awake.
The man who fails to please himself
can't be expected to please others.
If every man could profit by his own
mistakes we should all be rich
The old bachelor who has learned to
saw mo- has no dread of leap year.
Hoax-"What's the latest thing in en-
gagement rings?'' Joax-"Ladyhnge
There are people who couldn't look
on the bright side of life even through
smoked glasses.
Wigg-eThat's a bad cold you have.
Are YOU doing anything for it?" Wagg
well, I'm sneezing-"
The worst thing about sending a boy
like such an ignoramus when he comes
home.
If experience is the best teacher how
was it that Solomon had SO many
wives?
when a woman thinks she has the
best husband in the world it's because
she doesn't know any better
Some men perform deeds Of philan-
throDy on the sly, and then feel disap-
! pointed If they are not found out.
eff you would we'd" the bachelor said,
BE sure you're right ere you COM
menca.
You take a wife. and all your life
Must also take the consequence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28

denunciations in public places. She has
succeeded fully in getting into the lime
light of public notice, but q grave ques-
ton arises whether she has not reached
the limit. Her performance at the
White House this morning was worse
by many degrees than those of some of
the unfortunate men who have gone
there recently with queer notions in
their deranged heads and have been
later sent to st. Elizabeth's. Her sum
mary ejeetment from the premises was,
of course, entirely proper. but her quiet
detention would perhaps. have been
more to the purpose. Especially does
the suggestion that she be restrained
from further demonstrations assume
force in the light of her subsequent ex-
hibition in the gallery of the senate,
where she interrupted the proceedings
by her frantic outcries. The time has
apparently come to declare this unfor-
tunate woman. whose noble purpose
has been perverted into such ignoble
demonstrations, to be no longer cap
able of self Management
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28

Boston Transcript: There seems to
be no good reason for the decision Of
senators not to take up the Cuban
reciprocity bill, to complete it before
the expiration of the special session of
congress. The house has simply put
the treaty into a bill which it has
passed and sent uD to the senate. The
senate went all over the subject mat
ter months ago, when it ratified the
treaty. There can be nothing said in
the senate about the bill that was not
or could not have been said about the
treaty. If the senate is standing on
its dignity it is making a mistake, ac-
cording to popular judgment. If. on
the other hand. Washington dispatches
are correct in their assertion that the
postponement of vote until December
16 is for the purpose of teaching the
president 2 lesson" senators are maxi
Ding a sti1 more serious mistake. They
forget that the people of the United
States regard the president Of the
United States as their president: and
do not look kindly upon an attempt of
the senate to snub him for bringing
ats members to Washington in Novem-
Der instead of December. The house
Is closer to the people than the senate
is, and therefore understands the peo-
pie better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.1
Confidence is seldom lost. but often
sadly misplaced.
A girl isn't necessarily tinid because
she jumps at a proposal.
The dark ages are those pertaining to
women of unquestionable years
A good son naketh a good husband
but he is worthy of a better fate.
Babies cry most when they realize
that they look like some of their rela-
lions.
A bent pin is the easiest thing imagi-
nable to find when you are not looking
for it.
Don't make the mistake of giving a
man advice which doesn't confirm his
own opinion.
Sometimes there is more in the adj
iective than you suspect when you
speak of a criminal lawyer.
Nervous prostration has pretty
hard Job when it tackles a man whose
wife supports the family.
Usually the cheerfu1ness of the
brides father would seem to indicate
that he is the best man at the we'd
din@.
It is to weep every time one sees a
welI-dressed woman being dragged
down the street at the end of a string
nv a dog
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
REACHES THE LIMIT.

The Washington Star is excited
about Mrs. Nation because of her
rather mild demonstrations at the
White House and at the capitol. The
Washington Star has this to say of
her editorially:
Mrs. Carrie Nation. whatever her
motives as reformer. is degenerat-
ing into decided nuisance. When
she started on her career of saloon
smashing in Kansas a couple of years
ago she had the sympathy of many
thousands of people in all parts of the
country. especially of those who un-
derstood the situation in that state.
She was trying to shame the common
wealth into an honest enforcement of
it's laws, which had been persistently
and nagrantiy violated. Her work at
tracted attention to this fact in a man.
ner which left no question of the value
of her crusade, even though Kansas
failed to rise to the situation and en-
force the statutes against liquor SELL
ing. Then Mrs. Nation made the mis-
take of trying to conduct her prohibit
ton campaign on a national scale. The
methods which served in Kansas to ex-
pose the hypocrisy of the authorities
were inapplicable elsewhere. Neither
in Chicago nor in New York was there
situation demanding this particular
form of agitation. Her Ratchet in Kan
sas was a weapon of reform, but in
other communities it was an object of
derision- SBe brought discredit upon
the Temperance workers as a body in
the minds of many thoughtless peo-
pie. who could not properly discrimi-
nate between her and them.
Now she has come to Washington and
has undertaken to attract attention to
herself and her propaganda by shouting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
THAT KNIGHTLY COMMANDER
OF MEM

written for the State Journal.1
Men learned him and then grew to love
him,
His Shield bore no shadow of rust.
And duty'S flag hoated above him,
If humble or great was the trust.
His heart was so large and SO loyal,
So clear ana so wide was his ken,
His truth was SO clean and SO royal
That knightly Commander CT Men.
From Shiloh on down to savannah
He shirked not nor counseled delay:
While a nation in grief sang Hosannah-
He was pressing and Aanking his way
The Celt and the Gaul and the German,
His boys" were all confident, when
They. marched and they fought under
That Knightly Commander of Mem
Brave southronsl No valor could save
From trial and loss and retreat;
Yet how generous the terms that ne gave
When hen they yielded their all in defeat.
No triumph, no barrier, could stay him,
Till Lee had surrendered then
No effort awaited to delay him
That Knightly Commander OF Men,
To his country he gave no denial.
But ever his highest and best
Clean handed, he wrought through her
Clean handed he went to his rest.
Fer her was his faithful endeavor,
Of thought and of heart and Of pen
Be his full fruition forever
That Knightly Commander OK Men.
He strove not for riches nor glory.
And after his March to the Sea-,
Let history tell the proud story
How he would not be chief OF the Tree.
His fame shall exalt in the nations;
From the hilltops through city and glen;
His manhood was more than an sl S1
That Knightly Commander Of Men
A. WOODWARD.