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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18

mas In -'-A--A-+
James S. Warner spent Tuesday in
kansas City.
The first dog tooth violets of the sea
son came out Tuesday.
Does the new slot-machine law pro-
hibit the use of ballot boxes?
Evangelist Williams viii speak at
the Santa Fe coach shops at noon
Thursday
The sale of seats for The Chaperons. -
which comes to the Crawford Monday,
viii open Friday.
The Iris club, an organization OF
Washburu college girls, gave st Pat
Kicks day party Tuesday night.
The government Thermometer ranged
between Sc and Is Tuesday. That was
hot. for This time of the year
The Scottish Rite Masons are pre-
pairing to celebrate Maundy Thursday
in an unusually elaborate manner
j. 3. Belts has returned from Law
renee where he took part in one of the
famous Pierson-Green fish suppers.
NJ Mohlar. who is very sick at his
home near Washburn college. was re
ported to be slightly better today
General Wilder S. MetcaIf was in
Kansas City Tuesday and nobody
charged him with shooting prisoners.
Topeka has three public watering
troughs for horses. This is another
proof that Topeka is a rather dry town
Considerable drift IS coming down the
river and men are stationed on rhe
Kansas avenue street car bridge to keeT
it clear.
York State Folks" is coming to To
pelza- 1t is as good a play Of New Yorh
people as Way Down East is Of Yam
Eeadoun-
E. i. Hills. Of Atchison, was in To
pelca Tuesday in the interests of this
orphans home He viii make a tour OF
the state.
Mrs Edith sevrig wishes a divorce
from her husband because she has to dc
the milking. The couple live neal
Rossvllle.
The ice cream manufacturers are
Ereasing I'D their machines and laying
an a stock OF wooden dishes for tht
coming rush.
Charles NJ. Sheldon's story. THE Mar.
row Gates is being run as a serial story
In The Harbinger, a temperance papei
published in this city.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch. the Russian
pianist who was at the Topeka. Audi
torium recently. played in Washington
D. c., this week.
The Womans Municipal league vii
meet In Lincoln Post hall at p. IA
Thursday. 1t is urged that the ware
and precinct leaders be present to re
port Qn the progress OF registration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18
Arizona Adopts Woman sufrage.

Phoenix. Ariz., March 1S-The legisla-
tive council today passed the equal suf-
frage bill reported from the house by
two-thirds majority vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18

Berlin, March 1S-The reichstag to-
day adopted the appropriation of $3.50.
participation in the St. Louis exposi-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18
Liabilities 3 1Tiliion

London, March 1S.-The failure was
announced today of Body & Bayliff,
solicitors Their liabilities are over ST.
000, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18
KANSAS UNION QUITS.
Assets of the New Insurance
Company Sold.

The assets and liabilities of the Kan
sas Union Insurance company were
transferred Tuesday by the stockhOld-
ers to representatives of the National
Life Insurance company of Chicago
The capital stock of 500. 900 of the
Kansas Union was sold al par and the
insurance written by the company since
its organization last December was
transferred to the National company.
The representatives Of the Chicago COM
pany who cOnsummated the deal were
Louis G. Phelps, president, and A NJ.
Johnson, one of the half dozen control
ling stockholders. The consolidation of
the Kansas JJnien with the Kansas Mu-
tual Life Insurance company was dis
solved by an order of the United States
circuit court here recently.
The organiza ton of the Kansas Union
took place in Topeka in December, 1902.
It's principal stockholders were c.. J.
Devlin, J. p. Davis, W. N. Welcome.
John F. Moon John R MulVane Joab
son. Scott Hopkins, H c. Schwarzkopf
and z. N Morrill,. most of whom were
al that time associated in the manage
ment of the Kansas Mutual The con
solidation of the Kansas Mutual and
the Kansas Union was effected during
January of this year Donald Duggan OF
Kansas City, one of the policy holders
of the Kansas Mutual filed suit to an
nuI the consolidation Judge Hook OF
the United States circuit court decided
the union of the two companies to be
illegal and ordered its dissolution. An
appeal taken from the decision to the
United States court of appeals at St.
Louis is pending. The Kansas Mutual
is now in the hands of trustees
The National Life Insurance company
has been in the business since 1868. A
few years ago controlling interest in
it was secured by Louis G. Phelps. T.
A. and c. B. Shedd and A NJ. Johnson
and others who have pushed its bust
ness forward rapidly The company
pursues the old line policy business and
on January / claimed to have s24 445.-
924.90 worth Of insurance in force It's
resources, as shown by Mr.. Phelps. are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18

good buy your supply Everything bright and
new complete in Any and
satisfying qualities at that price
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18
ECHO ANSWERS wHEREq

All. where is Mary Ellen Lease
And poor old Patrick Grove.
And where is Jerry Simpson. who
Went sochless years ago?
And where is Coxey's army now.
The pops, 10. where are they?
And Helen Cougar where is she,
And has she gone TO stay2
And Mrs. Mayhrick, what Of her2
And Willie Tascott, too.
And who struck Billy Patterson,
And where is Pettigrew2
All. where has Thomas Watson gone,
Who once was Bryan S mate.
And Charlie Towne. all, what of him,
And what was Carl Browne s fate2
in vain these idle questions sound
Upon the empty air.
TITS but waste of breath to ask
For echo answers: Nv here %
-CnicaSO Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18

city Ticket Once. I1nlzu Pacific
Railroad. SIS Kansas avenue.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Easy to Get.

Pierpont, O., Oct. 5th.-Remarkable
indeed is the experience of Mr.. A. S.
Turner, a man now over seventy-one
years of age, and whose home is here
For many years this old gentleman
had suffered with very unpleasant
form of Kidney Trouble, kind that
very often bothers aged people. He
would have to get up four or five
times every night. and this very tire
some disease was fast wearing hin
out.
At last after having almost made III
his mind that he would never be
able to get relief. he stumbled over 6
medicine which relieved him almost
Immediately, and has cured him per
ranently. 1t is SO very easy to ge
and so simple that Mr.. Turner thinks
everyone should know of it. Every
dealer in the country hrs it, and al
you have to do is to ask for Dodd',
Kidney Pills. Mr.. Turner says
81 can heartily and honestly recon
mend Dodd's Kidney Pills for the!
cured me. Several others in the fam
lily have used them too, and Away.
with the best results. l think they
have no equal"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
oRDEArs OF A DOCTOR.

Sad Things Encountered in the Prac-
tice of Medicine.
1t is often claimed by outsiders that
having a profession dulls woman's
sympathies; but I cannot believe that
this is true in the practice of medi-
cine, where one side of the work is so
immeasurably sad. l have seen a
baby that cane after fifteen years of
waiting and hoping, and was rejoiced
over daily and hourly for wonderful
year, suddenly struck down and gasp
its little life out in day with pneu-
monia. These are the times when it
hurts to be a doctor, to find that all
the knowledge that you possess, all
the skill at your command, is as SO
much chaff before the wind. To have
a woman cling to you, begging you
to save her baby, is an ordeal to
which no human being can grow cal
lous. You must feel as though the
brand of Cain were upon you when,
with all your efforts. you cannot save
the little life. Not years nor expert
ence can tighten hours such as these
Autobiography of a Woman Physi-
clan, in Everybody's Magazine
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08

Washington, Oct. l.-Justice Ander-
son of the supreme court of the Distric,
of Colombia, rendered an opinion in
the injunction proceedings of the Della
ware Indians against Secretary Hitch
cock and the Dawes Indian commission
dissolving the temporary injunction
heretofore granted. The case involved
the right of the secretary to pass on
the 157, 900 acres of land in the Chero-
kee nation segregated for the use of
Delawares. The Indians claimed that
the secretary is without authority to
approve or disapprove of the segrega-
ton as it has been approved by the In
dams interested and asked that he be
enjoined against taking such action
pending the adjudication of the same
question by the court of claims.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
USE OF COFFEE OLD
SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED
CENTURIES AGO.
Dervish In Arabia the First to Brew
the Fragrant Beverage-can Never
Be Successfully Grown in the United
States.

AS to the history of coffee, the le-
gend runs that it was first found grow
ing wild in Arabia Hadji Omar, q
dervish, discovered it in 1885, GIT
years ago. He was dying of hunger
in the wilderness when, finding some
small round berries, he tried to eat
them, but they were bitter. He tried
roasting them, and these he finally
STEPPED in some water held in the
hollow of his hand, and found the de-
coction as refreshing as il he had
partaken of solid food. He hurried
back to Mocha, from which he had
been banished, and, inviting the wise
men to partake of his discovery, they
were so well pleased with it that they
made him saint.
The story is told that coffee was
introduced into the West Indies in 1928
by Chirac, a French physician, who
gave a Norman gentleman by the
name of De Clieux, a captain of infan-
try, on his way to Martinique, a single
plant The sea voyage was stormy
one, the vessel was driven out of her
course. and drinking water became
so scarce that 1t was distributed in ra-
lions. De ClieuX, with an affection
for his coffee plant, divided his por-
ton of water with it, and succeeded in
bringing it to Martinique, although
weak, not in hopeless condition.
There he planted it in his garden, pro-
tected it with fence of thorns, and
watched 1t daily until the end of the
year, when he gathered two pounds of
coffee, which he distributed among the
inhabitants of the island to be plant
ed by them From Martinique coffee
trees in turn were sent to San Domin-
go, Gaudaloupe and other neighbor-
ing islands.
The coffee tree is an evergreen
shrub, growing in its natural state to
a height of fourteen to eighteen feet.
1t is usually kept trimmed, however, for
convenience in picking the berries,
which grow along the branches close
to the leaves and resemble in shape
and color ordinary cherries. The tree
cannot be grown above the frost line,
neither can it be successfully grown
in the tropics. The most successful
climate for production is that found
at an altitude of about 1000 feet. Any
thing much above this is in danger of
frost, which is fatal to the tree, and
when coffee is grown much below this
it requires artificial shade, which ma
terially increases the cost of produc-
ton and does not produce as market,
able berries. 1t is owing to this par
ticular requirement that coffee has
never been successfully produced in
the United States.-Success.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08

He decided that he would swing two
small girls who were importuning him
to assist them. He rushed valiantly
behind the swing and then ducked
under in the most approved fashion,
and then stood moment looking for
Mrs. Thompkins. The swingboard
came back and hit Mr.. Thompkins a
crack that knocked him five feet. He
got up hurriedly, bursting the dirt off
his clothes. A baseball hit him square
ly in the jaw and Mr.. Thompkins went
down again. He sat up, only to be
roughly addressed by small boy who
wanted to known among other things
why the police allowed old billy goats
to butt in everywhere and get in the
road when they were playing baseball.
Mr.. Thompkins decided that life in
that immediate neighbornood was far
too strenuous, and he hurried over to
where some small children were play
Ing in sand pile.
Children" said Mr.. Thompkins, do
not waste your time making silly
mounds of this fine white sand. Cen
struct geometric figures and make
numerals, thus benefiting your young
and growing minds"
Two of the children Immediately be-
gan to cry.
cit out O. here" shouted another
small child. who reinforced her re-
mark by singing a handful of sand
in Mr.. Thompkins' face.
you must be punished for that"
said Mr.. Thompkins, severely 1T
would be a great mistake to permit
you to grow up with such vicious
disposition"
Mr.. Thompkins seized the small
child and putting her tenderly over
his knee proceeded to administer a
spanking. Two boys who were brothers
of the girl rushed valiantly to the
rescue.
They were afraid to come within
reach of Mr.. Thompkins' hands, so
they contented themselves with stand
ing at respectful distance and kick
ing sand in Mr. Thompkins' face. The
other children seemed to think it was
new kind of game, and they all
pitched in and began to pile sand on
Mr.. Thompkins until they had him
fairly well banked up. Mr.. Thomp-
kins tried to stand, but found he
could not. The sand came faster and
faster. The older boys and the girls
who were playing blackman observed
Mr.. Thompkins' plight and rushed to
take Fart in the fun. They got shovels
and boards and scooped the sand on
Mr.. Thompkins as though it were
coming out of steam dredge.
Help, help" roared Mr.. Thomp
kins. The small girl that he had been
spanking had long ago escaped and
had Joined in the onslaught on Mr..
Thompkins. Mrs. Thompkins had
finally observed her liege's plight and
tried to come to the rescue, but the
scream for help. A policeman hove in
sight and drove the boys and girls
| away.
"Wot are yes dom under that
sand?" demanded the policeman.
do you think 1 am trying to steal
it?" inquired the indignant Mr..
Thompkins. Those little villains tried
to murder me and I'm going to have
the law on all of EN-"
you had no business in here at all,
at all, and I've a notion to pinch yer
for incitin' a riot" said the policeman.
Now We git outten here as fast as
We kin an don't ye liver bother around
wild the kids agin."
Mrs. Thompkins and the policeman
dug Mr.. Thompkins out of the sand
and he sadly limped home.-Chicago
Tribune.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Natures War with Bacteria.

Bacteria are no respector of places
or persons; they go wherever they find
thoroughfare and waiting vehicle.
One Of natures unending tasks, at
which she is busy every minute in the
year, is the filtering Of water for
human use. When she has ughtraca
human use. When she has enough
she makes thorough job of it. When
she hasn't the fever germs Turk in the
old oaken bucket and lie in wait be-
hind the faucet
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Have Struck 1t Rich.

Topeka, Oct. 1.-Producers of Kansas
broom corn have struck rich harvest
this season. The better quality of corn
is bringing 500 ton, while the poor
est brings 500. The quality is better
this year than for several years past
and the yield is good. The acreage,
however, is smaller. The broom corn
district is confined to three or four
counties in Central Kansas. Rice county
is the heaviest producer. One farmer
there got five tons from fifteen acres
and sold it for $500 cash. Broom corn
brokers for Eastern whisls broom fac
tories are securing the district for
brush. Oklahoma also mas u fine crop
of broom corn this season.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
USE only KANSAS BRANDS
Mills Of The State Are Running
At Their Full Capacity.
EXPORT MARKET is GROWING.

Topeka, Sept 3o.-Reports which are
reaching the officers Of the Kansas
Millers' Association mere are TO the
effect that the mills of the state are
running ut their full capacity, and
have orders for several months in adj
vance. The millers are refusing to
brand their products us anything other
than Kansas -four. They decided upon
this action last summer and they were
afraid that the result would be very
injurious to their trade during the first
year. However, the price of -four has
been advanced and they are still get
ting more orders than they can fill.
The export market is better than it
has ever been. Tie first of the new
wheat flour which has reached the for
eign markets has caused Il demand for
more. The millcrs ascribe this demand
for the Kansas wheat to the position
which they took on the subject of SELL
ing their flour under their own brands
and to the advertising srhich their
flour and wheat has received during
the last year. The London millers
have written to their friends in this
state asking them what is the matter
with the Kansas millers and why they
are asking more than usual for their
-four. Some of the foreign millcrs are
suggesting that possibly Kansas milf
ers do not want trade and have de-
clared that the latter are taking the
proper course to lose it However, the
orders still come from foreign mer-
chants and millers faster than they
can DE filed
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Murderina Shakesnears,

IL never hesitate to cut and slash
and change any play until it suits
me-" said Stuart Robson to his legal
adviser. 81 suppose you edit Shake
speare with blue pencil?" replied
the lawyer. You can just bet do"
"Then, 1 imagine. you would plead
guilty to an indictment for numbering
the Bard of Avon" mo, would not;
but I would admit dissecting his
corpse'
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Today.

How little we think, my brother.
When the evening shadows fall
Ger the light of day
AS 1t fades away
Forever beyond recall.
That the day has gone forever
With the sunset of the west,
And the toiling hands
OF hundred lands
Are one day nearer rest.
But fleeing of time to tarry
In journeying down life's way,
So put all your might
In the good old fight,
For now is the time-today:
There's sunshine In the midnight.
There's starlight in the clouds,
If only you keep a courage true.
Though dire misfortune crowds.
It's hope that Will buoy ambition.
It's grit that will pull you through
It's ever a work,
With never a Shirk.
And a grim resolve to do:
The living present is with you.
Improve 1t while you may
Procrastinate and you challenge fate
Now is the time-today.
Harry s. Chester, Elkhart. Ind.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Opium Smoking in France.

For some time past doctors in
France have been warning the public
against the dangers of the latest craze
opium smoking. The habit has been
introduced by officers and others
home from Indo-China, and gradually
extended to society at Marseilles and
Toulon. After being adopted in other
seaports, the mania has now reached
Paris, where it is reported to have
widely spread.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Passenger Record Broken.

Topeka, Sept. 29.-Numbcr Santa
Fe passenger train has broken all rec
ords OF western passenger trains in
hauling regular passengers 1t left
Kansas City in two sections carrying
1910 passengers The first section of
fourteen cars had $50 passengers and
the second section of eleven cars had
800. There was no excursion rate on.
1t was regular traffic
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Wher. RuIe Works Both WAYS.

E. R. Thomas, the owner of the
great horse Hermis, talked one day
at Saratoga about the expense of rae
ing.
"a racing stable is like a news
paper" he said. "At the beginning it
requires a good deal of money. You
know what Charles A Dana used to
say about newspapers-thati it cost a
lot to start them, but they would stop
of themselves? Well, that is equally
true of racing stables. Only, as rule.
even to give a stable up costs money.
"Once when P. T. Barnum was talk
ing tickets at the entrance Of his cir
Gus, a man asked him If he could go
in without paying.
"-You can pay without going In
said Barnum, but you can't go in
without paying The rule doesn't
work both ways
~Now in racing" said Mr.. Thomas.
the rule does work both ways. 1t
costs to go in racing. and it costs to
get out, too"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Old Boat to the iron Pile.

The steamship Britannia Of the White
Star line, which ushered in the era OF
speed and luxury In ocean travel, now.
after Twenty-Five years OF service.
goes to the boneyard- She first re-
duced the record to below eight days.
has never lost day through accident
to her machinery, and has crossed the
Atlantic $50 times, travelling seventy
times the distance around the earth.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Cloves for seasickness.

Gloves" said a physician, make
On excellent and handy remedy for
nausea, for the headache due to train
rides and for slight attacks of sea-
sickness. l went abroad last year.
and on the boat the first day out l
began to feel the approaches of sea-
sickness. I took a Glove every hour
all the rest of the day and by mid
night the attack had left me, and it
did not return again"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Enuland,s Iron imports.

The large imports of iron ore into
England-about one-third Of the total
amount consumed-is not due to any
fear Of the exhaustion Of the supply
in Great Britain, but to desire to
save the nonphosphorous iron used in
the acid process. There is large, al
most unlimited supply of iron. CON
tanning phosphorus in Scotland and
il the Cleveland and Staffordshire
mines. The imported ore is largely
from Bilboa, Spain.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
A Pine Timber Sale.

Houghton, Mich, Sept a9.-Col.
VIM Coach sold to L. j. Cody, of Du-
luth. and w. T. Adds. of Kansas City,
a tract of standing timber on Coquill
river, Oregon, estimated to contain
$50, 600, 900 feet The deal is one of the
largest ever made in Oregon pine lands,
the purchase consideration being $780,
ono
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
A WeIl.Mean. PRAYER.

A South sea islander at the close of
a religious meeting offered the follow.
ing prayer: 20 God, we are about to
go to our respective homes. Let
not the words we have heard be like
the fine clothes we wear-soon to be
taken of and folded up in box till
another Sabbath comes around. Rather
let Thy truth be like til E tattoo on our
Observation-Disclosures till DEATH"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
oberlin NJ. Carter Sues.

Washington, Sept 29.-When Ober-
lin NJ. Carter, formerly captain in the
United States army, leaves the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth on Novcm-
Der %, he will begin Il contest for the
property, valued at $3.50, 900, taken by
the court at tine time of his conviction
or embezzlement in connection with
the Havana harbor improvement
frauds
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
Shortage of Horses.

Topeka, Oct. There is Il big short
age of horses in Western Kaneas, and
prices are high. D. w. Little has just
returned from IL tour of the northwest
ern part of the state. He says that
horses that q few years ago could be
bought for SIS and $50 are now selling
for 500 and 500, and are hard to get
ut that figure.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-08
The First Typewriter.

The first typewriter that produced
good results, although it was very
slow, was made by Worcester man,
Charles Thurber, in 1S4S. The first
typewriters that were put on the mar
ket were made in 1874. Since Thur
ber's machine was made, there have
been over 1000 patents granted for
machines and improvements.