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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
ADVOCATES EUTHANAsIA.
Preacher Believes in Putting Incur
ables Out of Misery

New York, Oct. 2Z-The Rev. Marie
ST. c. Wright of the Lenox Avenue Uni
tartan church startled the guests at the
annual banquet of the New York State
Medical association last night by advo-
eating euthanasia or the putting Of in
curables to an easy death. Mr.. Wright
said:
II appreciate the practical difficulties
in the way of the application of the doc
trine, but it seems to me that it is not
beyond the bounds of possibility. OF
course, it would be necessary to have
the advice and approval of men of the
highest scientific attainment. The city
might be divided into districts, and ev
cry application should be considered
most carefully, not merely by physicians
but by some eminent clergynen select
ed for the purpose. And, of course, there
should be the consent of relatives and
the consent, even, and request of the
patient himself. But where all those
conditions are fulfilled and where the
prolongation of life is simply the pro-
longation of hopeless agony. it seems to
me that it would be proper that such
a patient should quietly, decently, mod
estIy be allowed to end the sufferingS.
1t seems to me that such a course would
| be a step forward in civilization and a
step farther away from barbarism."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
ADVICE FROM GERMANY.
About How to Manage
Our Financial Affairs.

3er1in. Oct. 22-President Koch OF
the Reichsbank, discussing American
financial matters, said today to the cor
RESPONDENT of the Associated Press:
According to my private informa-
ton from the United States, the most
interest is manifested there for further
reform of the currency system IN tne
direction of greater elasuclty- YOU
com, try already has taken long Str10eS
towards a sound monetary system IN
the repeal of the Sherman law, as We'll
as in more recent measures Inns reg
isIation has been dictated by deter
poination to keep the currency SOUND.
P,I+ from orr German experience. we
regard elasticity as next in Importance
to soundneSS and as being lpdeeo III
dispensa BILE for the circulating medium
of a great commercial nation. and we
think it would be of immense advant-
age to the United States to adopt some
DIan whereunder the volume of circula-
| ton would naturally adjust itself to the
monetary needs of business. pesldes
! developing a check and deposit system
Whether this need would best be at
| tanned throuSh the esta bl1Shment OF
single central bank like the RelchS-
| bank or sew er31 such banks IN the mn
| portant financial centers, but operated
| in harmony with each other, or in some
other way, are questions winch we al
| this distance are unable to answer and
must he determined by American con-
ditiOns-
Secretary Shaw's recent suggestion
that reform be undertaken along the
general lines of the German system Is
a gratifying tribute from, competent
foreign source to the successful work
ing of the Reichsbank. Whatever may
be the fate of his suggestion, the secfse-
tary's speech shows that the minds Of
/ the leading American statesmen are
seriously graphing with the problem
and that they are moving in the righl
direction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
SHORTAGE OF S43.
It Leads Confidential Clerk to Kill
Himself.

New York, Oct 22.-Charles S. Ha-
nav, 26 years of age, bookkeeper and
confidential clerk for a wholesale cloth
ing firm, has committed suicide at his
fathers home in this city because he
was accused of appropriating to his
own use SAB belonging to his employers.
When he returned to work a member
of the firm said the books had been ex-
amined during his absence and accused
him of the shortage. Hanaw declared
it to be a, mistake which he could prove
by a book he kept at his home. The
employers accompanied him and while
they awaited the production of the
book. Hanaw stepped into an adjoining
room and shot himself. He was to
have been married soon to a wealthy
Young ladV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
BIG RAISIN CROP.
It Is 100000 Pounds Greater Than
Last Years.

Fresno, Cal, Oct 22.-The quantity
of raisins received by the association up
to October II was footed up TODAY and
shows in round numbers $4,000 600
pounds On the same date last year
the receipts were 100000, which makes
an excellent comparative showing. 1t IS
estimated that about five-eighths of the
crop is in which will make the total
crop over &c, 200. 600 pounds. Last year
the crop was 80.00O000 pounds, or az
excess this year over last of six million
pounds. This means a large addition to
the wealth of the raisin growing coun-
ties, though the gain has come from in
creased acreage. The average yield per
acre will fall considerably short OF last
wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
WEEKS IS WORRIED.
X. e. Football Coach Fears Re-
suits Of Saturdays Game.

Lawrence, Kan, Oct. 22.-Manager
Plank of the Kansas football team goes
to Kansas City today to make final ar
rangements for the Thanksgiving game
with Missouri. He will meet DR.. Heath
I'erington there and together they will try
to get the deal for the grounds straight
ened out. The contract was made and
signed, but there is some trouble over the
seating. The management of Sportsman 5
park has secured a lawyer and the Kan
sas and Missouri arrangements fear there
may be some trouble about the park be-
lore the great game comes off.
There were several old men on the Nc
Cook field last evening lining up against
the Jayhawkers to assist in getting them
ready for haskell Saturday. Jenk1nson.
Reid and Peters all went into the second
team line up and with their help the
youngsters seemed to be able to give
the Varsity all it could handle.
pected. although the stiffness resulting
from the Colorado game is still noticea-
BILE.
The practice was secret again and out
side of the coaches and trainers no one
There was a thorough signal practice be-
fore the scrimmage work and BOSS"
+ Weeks kept his squad out as late as pos
sible.
Weeks has been wearing troubled
countenance more or less since the team
went to Colorado. He was not IN favor
of that trip any time, and since the return
says there will never be another such
trip SO long as he coaches the Kansas
eleven. Since the Jayhawkers visited the
Rockies they have not worked with the
same vigor that was existant in some Of
the men before the trip. Weeks says he
never saw a trip made by any team where
the team was victorious that seemed to
have such a bad effect on the players. He
thinks if Kansas loses the game to the
Redskins it will be because of the great
mistake. in putting game in the Rocky
mountain altitude on the schedule where
| it was sandwiched in. This is the preva-
lent opinion in athletic circles here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
TOWED NAVY YARD.
The Chattanooga Was Not Stopped
by the Sheriff.

ElizabethDort, n. J., Oct. 22.-The
cruiser Chattanooga and the torpedo
boats Nicholson and OBrien, which
We're under construction at the Ores
cent ship yards, today were towed by
government tugs to the Brooklyn navy
yard. where the work on them will be
finished. A big government lighter
carried away every piece of govern
ment property belonging to the cruiser
nor any of his deputies were present
and no remonstrance was made against
the removal of the vessels. The cruiser
and the two torpedo boats were replev-
ined by the United States government
from the control of the sheriff of Union
county. who had held the Chattanooga
on a libel for $4,000 on a claim made
by Babcock & Wilcox, who supplied
the boilers for the cruiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
TWEED's VICTIM DEAD.
Vincent Cody Spent SO Years of His
Life IN Prison.

New York. Oct .22.-Suffering most of
his life as a result of victory over
William M. Tweed, in the days when
that boss was at the height of his
power, Vincent Cody is dead Cody
was once wealthy man. He died a
Waterman on the Rapid Transit sub
way, and since the civil war, through
which he fought, had served SO years in
states prison, all of which he declared
was due to the fact that he succeeded
in defeating Tweed's candidate for the
assembly in the ''boss's'' own district,
shortly after the war because he had
not succeeded in getting his old political
job when he returned from the front.
He declared that Tweed followed him
up and that later when he was arrest
ed because of an accidental shooting in
which he was involved, he was convict
ed bya packed jury and sent tot pris
on for life Cody 'ssentence was COM
muted by Governor Roosevelt. but he
left the prison much against his will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
Cause of Lockiaw.

Lockjaw, or tetanus, is caused by a
bacillus or germ which exists plentifuily
in street dirt 1t is inactive so long rs
exposed to the air. but when carried be-
percussion caps or by rusty nails and
when the air is excluded. the germ is
reused to activity and produces the most
be destroyed and all danger of Iockjaw
avoided by applying Chamberiain's Pain
ceived. Pain Balm is an antiseptic and
causes cuts, bruises and like injuries %
heal without maturation and in one-th;rd
the time required by the usual treatment.
For sale by all druggists,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
DODGE CITY WEDDING.
Mr.. @. R. Haley and Miss Marguerite
Murray Are Married

Dodge City, Kas.. Oct. PIG. R.
Haley of Dalhart. Tex, and Miss Mar
suerite Murray. of this city, were mar
ried at the brides home Tuesday at 10
o'clock, and left for a short trip to Kan
sas City. Mr.. Haley is employed in the
c. R T. & w. offices at Da1hart, where
they will reside after November 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22

"Our little daughter had an almost ia
tai attack of whooping cough and bron-
chitis." writes Mrs. W. K. Haviland of
Armonk n. Y, but. when all other
Dr. Kings New Discovery. Our niece,
who had consumption in an advanced
stage also used this wonderful medicine.
and today she is perfectly WE'LL Desper-
ate throat and lung diseases yield to DIR.
Kings New Discovery as to no other
medicine on earth. Infallible for coughs
and colds. SOC and s1.00 bottles guaran-
teed by Arnold Drug Co., s2f N. Kansas
avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
Steel Plant to Resume.

Joliet. ILL.,, Oct. 22.-Oficials of the IL
linois Steel company have received or
ders to resume operations at the Steel
plant here next Monday in all depart
Inents. This will give employment to
1000 men. The plant shut down two
weeks ago under a general order for an
indefinite period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
Gamers Demand More Paw.

Chicago, Oct. 22.-Three thousand en-
ployes of the canning departments of
the stock yards packing houses have
presented demands for wage increases
varying from 10 to 25 per cent. About
1000 men and 1000 women and boys are
affected. Negotiations will be taken up
as soon as the scales of the sausage
makers and the pork butchers are dis
posed of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
New Buildings for Lawrence.

Lawrence, Kan, Oct 22-The contract
for building the new f. A. A building
was let today at a meeting of the board
of directors Three bids had been sub
mitted, one from Leavenworth and two
from Lawrence. When the bids were
opened it was found that the bid from
Leavenworth was the lowest submitted
and accordingly the contract was let to
Mr.. Henry Mclaughlin for $2s, 400.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22

Would not interest you if you're looking
for guaranteed salve for sores, burns or
piles Otto Dodd of Ponder, Mo-, writes /:
II suffered with an ugly sore for a year,
but a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
me- It's the best salve on earth. 25c at
Arnold Drug Co., 81 North Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
Kansas City and Return $2.7o via
- Santa Fe

Account Horse show and Livestock
show. Tickets on sale Oct. II to "a in
elusive. Final limit returning Oct. Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
Football q. VS. Haskell Indian

Lawrence and return s1.05 Via the
Santa Fe, Saturday, October "a. You
can leave. Topeka at 1:55 p. M, see the
game and return home at GAO pm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22

Football X. o. vs. Haskell Indians
Lawrence and return $1.05 via the
Santa Fe, Saturday, October "a. You
can leave Topeka at 1:55 p. M, see the
game and return home at GAO pm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22

For Rent-Part of our new Office
room at 10S West Eighth street; AMI
say. eit's a peach BETTER look at it.
STER-TULLOCH COAL Co
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
Swimming It.

IF you are going to give a pan of
milk, don't skim it first" the old
grandmother used to say, meaning:
If you are going to do a favor, don't
spoil it by an ungracious word or
manner.
Haven't we noticed how much of
this skimming goes ON in ordinary
family intercourse?
"Another errand? I never can go
down town without a half-dozen COM
missions" complains Rob, when his
sister asks him to bring a book from
the library. He never refuses to
oblige her, he does not really count
it an inconvenience; he only takes
the cream off his kindness.
CHOSE gloves ripped again!" ex-
claims Mary, when John wants her
to take a few stitches. "It seems to
me they always need mending when
| am in a hurry with something
else" She would be shocked at his
going shabby and distressed if any
one thought her unwilling to render
such Office, but she makes it a little
unpleasant to ask the favor.
The children follow the fashion.
Tommy shuts the door at Bridget's
request, but he grumbles at having
to leave his top. Susie goes to the
door when she is sent, but she de-
parts with a protest that it is Tom
my's turn. Thus all day long people
who love one another skim the sweet
ness from every service they render.
Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09

residents of Mississippi, a great
many having come across the river
into that State. Well, the next day
they got the two houses together in
joint session so that I would not have
to make two speeches. I remarked
upon the gratitude I felt for the
honor done me the night before and
said that while I appreciated it, I
could not, as a loyal Mississippian,
but regret that so many of her sons
had left her to become residents of
Arkansas. Mississippi I said, is a
great State, with many resources and
capable of the highest development.
L am III if these former residents
of that Commonwealth now living in
Arkansas had remained in Mississip-
pi and stood trial, they would have
been acquitted by the jury It
seems" continued Allen, with a show
of regret, chat there was a county
treasurer who had defau1ted in Mis-
sissippi and a sheriff that had got
away after making a big sale, who
were members of the Legislature,
and they took my remarks personally.
On account of their efforts the ap-
preparation was not what we expect
ed"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
The Best Kind of ANIMALS.

First and last, I have grown prac-
4;oo7Iv every annual offered in the
American trade, says Prof. L. H.
RoiIev in Country Life in America.
T. Is surprising how few of the un-
common or little-known sorts really
have great merit for general pur-
Noses, There is nothing yet to take
the place of the old-time groups,
sncb as ~amaranths, zinnias, calendu-
las, daturas, balsams, annual pinks,
candv-tufts, bachelors buttons, wall
flowers, gilias, larkspurs, petunias,
p~aiIlardias, snapdragons, c~ockscombs,
Iobelias, c~oreopsis, or calliopsis, Cal
ifornia peoples, foqr-o'-clocks, sweet
sultans, phloxes, mignonettes, scab-
iosas. dwarf nasturtiums, marigolds,
China asters, salpiglossis, nicotianas,
p~ansies, po~rtulacas, castor beans,
poppies, sunfowers, verbenas, stocks,
aIvssums, and such good old running
plants as scarlet runners, sweet peas,
c~onvolvuluses, ipomeas, nasturtiums,
balloon vines. cobeas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
The Helping Christian.

There is a legend in the Greek
Church about her two favorite saints
st. Cassianus, the type of monastic
asceticism, and St. Nicholas, the type
of genial, active, unselfsh Christian
ity.
st. Cassianus enters heaven, and
Christ says:
"What hast thou seen on earth,
Cassianusw
ct saw" he said, ga peasant
laundering with his wagon in a
marsh"
"Didst thou help himw
"No."
"Why notw
II was coming before theee," said
St. Cassianus, "and I was afraid of
soiling my white robes"
Then St. Nicholas enters heaven,
all covered with mud and mire.
"Why so stained and soiled, st.
Nicholas 2" said the Lord.
II saw a peasant laundering in a
rlarsh," said st. Nicholas, "and I put
my shoulder to the wheel and helped
him out"
BLESSED art thou" answered the
Lord, "thou didst well; thou didst
be tier than Cassianus."
And he blessed St. Nicholas with
approval.-Dean Farrar.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
Studying the Birds.

If we study our wild birds thought
fully in the nesting-season we shall
soon get a better understanding of
their real nature, and as a result a
warmer sympathy for the birds them
selves. We shall see many of their
finest traits-their patience and per-
severance, their love of home and the
untiring devotion with which in most
instances they defend and provide
for their young. But to study this
side of bird life we must not modest
the eggs. Very few naturalists col
lect birds eggs nowadays; they know
that it is of far more Importance to
study the nests in which the eggs are,
and the young birds which will short
ly come out of the eggs. All the eggs
you are ever likely to find r already
well known, so that you might col
lect ten thousand, and thus kill ten
thousand young birds, without adding
one new fact to the scientific knowl-
edge of them.
Perhaps you will hardly believe it
if I tell you that not one of even our
very commonest birds has had his
life-history thoroughly and complete
ly studied. Here is a chance for you,
then. Begin on any birds nest you
like, and if you watch it carefully
you will probably discover some facts
which no one ever discovered before.
June is the very best time for this
work, as probably most of the birds
in the United States nest this month.
Woman's Home Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
Aunt Jennie's Letter.

We have one letter this week
Martha's helpful notes about shirt
waists. I trust hat we shall have
o next week, for I believe that
there are enough interested members
of our Circle to keep it fairly full.
And I am still hopeful that we shall
have a large number of papers on
NEGRO Life and Character During
and After Slavery" Will not the old
er members or those who can get the
"reminiscences of older members hurry
in some letters on this subject? Look
up the announcement in The Pro
gressive Farmer of May 10Th.
I hope that all the readers of the
Chat noticed the article "The Home
Speech" on our page last week. There
is nothing that counts for SO much in
social and business affairs that can
be SO easily and so cheaply acquired
as the habit of correct speech. And
the only way to speak correctly and
naturally abroad is to speak correct
ly at home. Let our young people
and their parents give this matter
attention.
Hoping to hear from more of you
next week,
AUNT JENNIE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09

cate goods will often lose their pref
ty %colors, and if the waists are good
they r well worth recoloring. IN
less the waists are of a solid color,
boil them in a suds containing a lit
tie salsoda until they are a clear
white, then dye them pink, pale blue
or any shade desired with diamond
dye for cotton, and they will look like
new waists. It is not necessary to
take them apart, unless they are very
much trimmed, so the work is very
quickly done, and boys faded waists
may be renewed in the same manner.
MARTHA.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
AUNT JENNIE.
About Shirt Waists.

Dear Aunt Jennie To strength
en- weak spots in a waist of silk or
wooden material, moisten a piece of
court plaster and place it underneath
the rent, then the material can be
darned lightly over this or caught
down at the edges. Any colored
goods may be repaired in this way if
you get plaster to match the silk.
Unless a professional laundress is
employed it is of the greatest i'm
portance that a woman know how
to do up her own pretty waists and
dainty collars, for if the work be
carelessly done, they are soon faded
and their beauty gone. A nice way
to rim tucks, is to just press on the
wrong side, turn over, then raise each
tuck with a knife, dampen slightly
and press dry on the right side and
they look better if they are raised
again instead of leaving them fiat.
Black lawn should be washed in
warm suds, then rinsed in water in
which blueing has been added liber-
ally, and if starch is used it must be
made almost black with blueing or
strained coffee. An excellent way to
wash dark ginghams or muslins is to
first soak them for half an hour in
sailed water, then wash them through
a thin starch water without using
a The starch clears the print
and will usually stiffen it sufficiently
and garments of this kind should be
ironed on the wrong side. The color
should be set in nearly all wash fab
RIGS before they are put in the ends,
and salt and water is good for most
colors. but very delicate colored
waists should be soaked in soft water
to which some oxgall has been added.
About a tablespoonful to a gallon of
water is about right. But with the
greatest care in washing, these deli
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-09
Biblical Humor.

Those people who think that hui
NOR is foreign to the Book of Books
have failed to study it closely. There
is nothing in literature more quaint
ly humorous than the Biblical &C.
count of the sickness and death of
King Asa. The account reads as fol-
lows:
"And Asa in the thirty and ninth
year of his reign was diseased in his
feet, until his disease was exceeding
great: yet in his disease he sought
not the Lord, but to the physicians.
And Asa slept with his fathers"
Certainly the inspired writer had
a very poor opinion of the medical
profession.
Students of anthropology who de-
sire to ascertain the direct descent
of our English cousins who stumble
before the aspirate should consult
the twelfth chapter of Judges. It is
there first recorded that a people had
trouble with the letter "h." The
Ephraimites and the Gileadites we're
at war. The Gileadites put the Eph-
raimites to fight and then stationed
men at the fords of Jordan to inter-
cept the fugitives. In order to make
sure of their victims they asked each
man who crossed the river to pro-
nounce the word "shibboleth." The
Good Book says:
"Then say they (the Gileadites)
unto him (the Ephraimite) say now
shibboleth; and he said sibboleth; for
he could not frame to pronounce it
right. Then they took him and slew
him at the passages of Jordan: and
there fell at that time of the Eph-
raimites forty and two thousand"
Samson propounded a riddle to a
lot of his friends and promised a re-
ward if they guessed it in sever days.
They prevailed upon SamsOn's wife
to secure the answer and tell it to
them. Then they fastened to Sam
son with it and claimed the reward.
Instantly Samson replied:
off ye had not plowed with my
heifer, ye had not found out my rid
de-"
Which, as you must admit, was a
rather neat way of informing them
that he knew how they came into pos
session of the answer.-Exchange.