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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
WESTERN WOMEN IN LEAD.
Say Their Figure Conforms to Artists
Model.

New York. March 9-The all-absorb-
ing question among the members of the
Dressma kers' Protective Association of
America is, Have western women bet
ter figures than eastern women?"
The consensus of opinion is that west
ern women are more fully developed
than the fasteners. but have not as
good figures for the purposes of the
dressmakerss art.
An increase in the size of the bust
measurement of all women is attributed
to the new style of straight-front corset
It is found that the regulation model
size of Sc inches bust requires a 3S-inch
model front to fit women who formerly
measured Sc.
Western women are well developed, -
said Miss c. Read Of Sedalia. Mo I'VE
don't have any with "a busts and they
don't need any delsarte treatment. They
measure sc and 50. It is plenty of out
door exercise that makes them well de-
veloped.
Long walks before breakfast and
plenty of golf are developing. You can't
help eating heartily. Riding is popular.
The bicycle is a thing of the past with
US.
Western women have better figures
from the artists point of view, but no;
from that Of the dressmaker's-
They have better lines and are not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

welfare. for who, like a soldier knows
the true value of organized unity; and
Whereas. The exalted record of Com
rade A. w. Smith as soldier of over
four years during which eighteen
months was endured in that brutal
slaughter pen, AndersonVilIe prison. Il
lumined by his exemplary, unselfish
century, in his priceless devotion to
the development of the glory of kansa ..
uncomplainingly rendered, without Offl-
cial recognition from his comrades and
fellow citizens that he was and is so
richly deserving Of; therefore, be it
Resolved, By Lincoln Post. No. 4, De-
partment of Kansas @. A. r.. in regular
meeting assembled, that we urgently
ask CCmTade A. w. Smith to allow his
department G. A. r. encampment for
department commander, and that he
consent to give our order the benefit o.
his efficient services and cOmmanding
powers for one term believing that hc
can revive our dormant comrades to re
neWed activity and interest in our or =
der that shall restore much Of our form
er prestige; and be It further
Resolved That we pledge him our
fuly solicit all of our comrades and the
other posts Of this department to Join In
this laudable effort to secure the cleo
ton and services Of Comrade A. w.
smith as our next department COM
mander without dissension or division
unanimously. and be it further
Resolved, That a verified copy Of these
preambles and resolutions he furnished
to the press of this city and of Kansas
City Mo. and to Mcpherson post, No.
81 OF Mcpherson, Kas.. with our request
for their cooperative action
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
SANKEY'S SIGHT.
Specialist Operated Upon Noted
Evangelist Result Doubtful.

EVang el1SG-AeSulf Oou bttul.
New York. March 9.-Allan Sankey,
son of Ira d. Sankey. evangelist, ac-
knowledged today at his home in
Brooklyn that his father is at present
totally blind, but that there is a chance
that the sight of one of his eyes may
be restored. That news of Mr.. Sankey's
real condition had been withheld until
now is due to the evangelist's own
wishes. He did not care. he told his
family, to alarm his friends, of whom
there are great numbers throughout
the English-speaking world. Mr. Allan
Sankey said that his fathers constitu-
ton had been gradually breaking
down during the last four years. Since
the death of Dwight L. Moody Mr..
Sankey had to bear the brunt of the
work that for 50 many years they had
divided. He said:
This affection of the eyes had been
coming upon him for two years. Three
weeks ago his condition became so ser
ious as to alarm US. and DR.. Kalish
was summoned. Under DR.. Kalish
father underwent an operation, and the
result of this is yet in doubt. The
sight Of one eye. we think, is gone for
ever, and our hopes are that in some
measure at least the sight Of the other
may be restored. The disease with
which fathers eyes are afflicted is
known as glocoma, and it is regarded
as the most serious afflictiOn that can
menace the sight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

prone to tight lacing. They do not give
as much attention to the wearing of cor
sets. which are not as we'll fitting or as
costly as those worn by eastern women. "
I'VE are trying to make our custom
ers adopt eastern Styles" said Mrs. r.
Wade of Nation, Ill
Mrs. A Serritt of Winnipeg, said that
the women in Manitoba average So, and
they are generally large women. The
present increase in bust measurements
she considered due to the prevailing
style of corsets. Golf. skating and walk
ing are INDUCED in by Manitoba women
she said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
THEY FAVOR SMITH.
Lincoln Post Endorses Him for De-
partment Commander.

Lincoln post has adopted the follow
ing resolutions:
Regarding Colonel A. w. Smith of Nc
Fherson Post No. 8. of Mcpherson. Kas
as possessing superior qualification and
merit for the position OF commander OF
the department of Kansas. c.. A. r..
which now more than ever before. re-
Quires the services and character of our
strongest representative member TO in
spire renewed interest and jealous ac-
uNlty once more in our Indifferent COM
rades, to awaken old-time co-operat tive
patriotic action. with unselfish devotion
TO each other and 10 their country's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

St Johns, n. F, March 9.-The steam
er Ulunda which arrived here yesterday
evening from Liverpool after a passage
lasting q days, reported having encouE-
tered hurricane weather. Carpenter
Aarlsen was killed, Boatswain Cook had
his arm broken and Engineer Brayton
had three fingers torn from one of his
hands during the storm. The steamer
engines were disabled. her Lighthouses
were torn away and she was otherwise
badly damaged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

Atlantic City. n. J. March 9.-Life
savers at Hereford and Cold Spring
stations report the drifting ashore Of the
deck. upper works and some rigging Of
a ship Part of the deck came on the
beach at each station, the two being slx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

Kansas City. No. March 9-Harold
Money of Oakland. \. j.. travelling rep
resentative of an eastern arms company
and a 1--we bird marksman of national
reputation. is dangerous i'll at St. Joseph
hospital in this city OF pneumonia and
may not recover His parents are en-
route here from the east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

public concurring therein. viii rise up and
place Dave Hanna on one of the highest
shelves.
Of a resolution for the erection of a silver
service for use on the ethereal battleship
Kansas. It was not hard to pass the bill,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

because the batteship in question has yet
to be built and the appropriation of 81, 500
will not have to be made until several tax
collections have been made. Even Repre-
sentative Francis. the man with the
shears forgot to trim It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
DR.. PRICES
TRYABITA FOOD
THE ONLY CELERY WHEAT FLAKE

miles apart. No name can be found on
the wreckage but the life savers say it
is evidently that of coasting schooner
or a converted barge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
THE CANDY MAKER HEARS A
RUMBLING IN THE LEGISI4A-
TURE.

hoof gumdrop and asphalt caramel Will
not be seen in polite society. No more
will the prattling child be able to pur-
chase a stick of candy yard long for
one cent. The sweet girl graduate will
be constrained to adopt a diet of some
thing other than Drussic acid pepper
drops. According to Mr.. Sims bill the
price of adulterated candy will be from
$25 to $50, not to the purchaser. but to
the manufacturer of the stuff.
Lieutenant Governor Hanna got a bou-
quet the other day in the shape of a vote
of thanks from the senate 1t was not in
tended a JOSH like many similar effu-
siOns are. but was straight goods. The
senate has not a kick of any kind coming,
and have been treated fairly and squarely
by their president, who never made a rul-
ing he could not back with the Marquis
of Parliamentary rules. Mr.. Hanna has
also been a good Indian with the newspa-
per gang. and his private Office has always
been at their service when they wanted a
secluded spot III which to manufacture
news. Some day the newspaper gang the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
Varv Low 20.

To points in Montana. Idaho Washing
ton Oregon, and British Columbia
in effect daily from February
Is to April 80, via Chicago Great West
ern railway. For full particulars apply
to G. ". Lincoln. 7. p. A.. Kansas City.
Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09

Doctor J. Albert Berry, speciality dis
eases of digestion, US Kan ave. Tel 7s5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
seen BY 4 NOVICE
Comparison OF the Ages of tho
Legislator.
Average Does Not Indicate Ad-
vanced Years.
THIS WILL COUNT.
Hereafter Candy Sold Must Be
Pure.
A Silver Service for the Battle
ship Kansas.
THIS
COUNT.

The average age of the Kansas legis-
lature for 1903 is A and 2-3 years. The
senate averages 49 and 40 and the house
4S and 1-3. This average does not in
clude Senators Cubbison, Mcmillan
and White Cubbison and Mcmillan
We're too bashful to tell the author OF
Cranes blue book when they were born,
and H. B. White said that he was born
in 1925, or at least the book says so. If
you don't believe it, look in the book and
see. A blind man with a wooden leg
could see that White is not rs years of
age. so he is listed with the absentees.
The list also lets out Representatives
jerks and Stubs, who, according to
the book are somewhere between / and
100 years of age The average is secur-
ed by doing some strenuous figuring. on
the others. The oldest man in the SEN
ate seems to be S. J. Stewart, at 60, and
Johnnie Caldwell the youngest, at the
tender age of &c years, 4 months and q
days. In the house representative Will
lam Baird seems to hold the belt for
old age, as he was born in 1886. OF
course you all know Johnnie King was
sweet 16 only seven years ago.
The average size of the legislature is
about normal and the average intelli-
gence is as good as any old state can
produce. The few very few mutton
heads in that body are heavily over
balanced by a host of men whose in
tellect average about 2121k per cent.
Taken as a bunch the legislature of 1903
holds a winning hand. Too bad. isn't it,
that there is not a composite photograph
to go with this rot.
Tt has been decided by the legislature
that glue, strychnine. paris green, soap,
prune juice, vitriol asphaltum, Kaw riv-
er mud, and several other popular in
gradients. were never intended to be
used in the manufacture Of candy. The
makers of corrections have heard the
rumble of the oncoming avalanche, but
failed to get around and lobby in time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06
MoNoNeAHELA COMPANY SOLD.
Controlling Interest Will Be Delivered
 to Pttsburg Coal Company.

Pittsburg, September 5.-The Pittsburg Gazette says Contracts have been signed under the terms of which George I. Whitney of Whitney, Stephenson & Co.,, of this city undertake to deliver for cash a controlling interest in the Monon- gahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke company to the Pittsburg Coal company. Henry w. Oliver represented the Pitts burg Coal company in the negotiations. The transfer of control will be through the purchase for cash of a majority of the capital stock deliverable in either common or preferred shares, or both. It is understood that the Pittsburg Coal company will purchase the stock of minority holders on the same terms as those received by the majority interest and that these terms will be announced after the formal ratification of the deal by the directors on Monday.
 "The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke company is capitalized at $40, GOO GOO and it's output last year ap- proximated S000.0O0 tons of coal. The combination of interests will Represent total of $132 OO0,000 and the tonnage close
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06

the cupola has been partly refined and other necessary repairs made Tho plant was working some castings for the Louisville and Nashville when it was thrown in the hands of the receiv- CTS and now this order will be completed. which will take several months. It is said also that the plant is figuring or a' large repair order. The Gadsden plant Is the first one of the system to start up. and all the employees of the Gads- den plant will be paid off at once.
 The Weller car shops received a large lot of new machinery this week. among which is large steam hammer and the hydraulic wheel press and power punch This company makes speciality of mn ing cars and small cars of all kinds. and when the works are complete will manu- fracture every part of the car. They em- ploy some sixty laborers.
 The Queen City Is to have q first-class brass band. The following well known young men met this week and organized band: Professor Hopens, J. G. Staple ton, Lawrence Lee, Dr. A. w. Rails, l.. Whorton, Dr. c. l.. Murphree J. O. Benton, r. F. Osborn. w. T. Murphree, l.. E. Chandler, A. c. Little. Clay Leath, Henry Todd. c. C. Jones. R. M Wilbanks Wll Huston and N. W. Flick fold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06
WHAT THE EDITOR DOES
 FOR SOME MANUSCRIPTS

and defects in the eyes of that partieu- lar reader. When the reports on a cer- tain MS. are all in the publisher reads them, and makes up his mind as to whether it will be advisable for him to publish it. If he Is not satisfied with the reports already received on it he may send 1t out to other readers and defer his decision until he hears from them.
 There are many elements that influence publication A MS may be good in itself but 1t may not be what the particular publisher has market for. Or it may belong to a certain class with which he is already fully stocked. Manuscripts rejected by one firm are frequently &C., cepted by another. It is said that 'Da- vid Haruma was rejected by nine pub lishing houses.
 Readers are human, and, therefore lla- ble to err. Temperament plays, necessa- rily, a considerable part in their decis- Ions, but they are selected by the firms that engaged them for their critical judgment, their knowledge of good Eng fish, their acquaintance with both stand ard and contemporary literature, and for their skill in determining the selling qualities of book.
 If a story has live characters and is we'll put together the publisher Is will ing to expend time and money in bring ing 1t up to the standard he has set. Some readers are also editors of the firm and they correct faulty sentences, rear range mixed metaphors, and see that the demands of time and place are not confused.
 Few persons beginning to write are aware. probably. of the amount of edit ing which their work requires before it is in condition to appear in print There are solitary footmen approaching on horseback" in manuscripts that have been read and re-read by the author a dozen times. It takes another eye than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06

ton consumption been affected by the trade and monetary conditions of the past year?" Quite a number of replies were none and but very little" For the first time the south has passed the two million mark in actual consumption. practically 'tieing'' the mills north of Mason and Dixon's line, that with the mills as a whole, 1t was simply ques- ton of not enough cotton and that out of $40 active mills on the list 534 ran dur ing the entire year, though some of them to a greater or less extent curtailed their consumption.
 These facts show he says, that up to the close of June the mills had taken something like two hundred thousand bales more than up to the same time last year. and 1t was this that enabled tEem to tide over the period of absolute scarci- ty which prevailed during July and Au- gust, whereas last year they were en- abled 10 supply considerable of the!r wants during these months As it vas. however for want of cotton or inability to secure 1t unless at prices entaiing heavy losses, 442, o46 spindles were stop ped during the month of June, 615,6S3 dur ing July and 1,OS19s6 during August
 These figures refer to active mills only, not including about 175,OOO spindles which from various causes did not run during lue tDtlOu year.
 MT. Hester states that with all the new spindles in course of erection completed, the souths capacity at the rate Of this years average weight per bale as given by the southern mills would be nearly 2,36S, 600 bales.
 Worlds Consumption.
 One of the most interesting features in MT. Hester's report is the Showing of the worlds consumption of American cot ton for the past season, which he puts at 10S59,00O against 10657,G00 last year and 1011,00O the year before, a gain over last year of POP GOO, over year before last of 6se, 600 and a decrease in 1S99-1900 of 136. 0O0.
 He quotes a dispatch from MT. Thomas Ellison of Liverpool, the distinguished English cotton statlstican, in which that eminent authority places the surplus mill stocks in Europe of all kinds of cotton at the close of August, 1903. at 716,OO0 bales, against 557000 last year. MT. Eli son approximates that the European mills now hold 6O00OO American, against f70,000 last year.
 Mr. Hester makes the total visible and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06
GADSDEN.
First Bale of Cotton Sells on Public
 Square for 21 Gents a Pound.

Gadsden, September 5.-(Special) )-Eto- wah countys first bale of new cotton for the season of 1903-0f was brought to Gadsden Friday morning by J. H. Miller and J. c. Prater of Smokeneck, The bale as weighed at the Etowah ware house, weighed 3S7 pounds. The cotton was sold on the public square and was bid in by w. J. Sibert at 21 cents per pound, bringing the owners $S1.27 The price paid for this hale Is the highest paid in the south so far for the first bale and is perhaps the highest that will be paid. The price paid for the first bale in Anniston was 15 cents. in Rome IS cents in Evergreen 19 cents, in MdQt- gomery 1872 cents, in Mobile 12h cents and in Selma 1i1s cents. \
 After an idleness of about one month the foundry and machine shops of the Southern Car and Foundry company will start up again next Monday. Everything at the plant has been gotten in readiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06

invisible supply of American cotton in the world at the close of August 1192,000 against 1,37l,000 last year, a decrease of 179, 900, and the total visible and invisible supply of all kinds of cotton in the world at the close of August 1,9S5,00o against 2,004,00O last year, a decrease of 19,000 He gives the receipts of new cotton of the crop of 1903-19O4 at delivery ports as 1,29400O bales against 96,531 last year.
 One of the most interesting features of the years cotton movement was the re- turn of American cotton from abroad for delivery during July and August on contracts entered into at New Orleans and New York. MT Hester has traced this cotton and shows that it amounted to 42,376 bales, including 34,751 from Liver pool, 1886 from Havre, 5106 from Bre- men. 766 from Genoa and 367 from British North America. This is the first time in the history of cotton that any consider able quantity of American growth has ever been returned to the United States from abroad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06
SOUTH DAKOTA'S DIVORCE
 BUSINESS IS INJURED

suit in that city against his wife, who had borne his name for a long time with out becoming round shouldered. Finally she went to South Dakota, asked for q plush-covered divorce, with silver trim mings was directed to the third floor. right aisle, got what she wanted. and then and there, in the matrimonial de- partment she married a man with a shorter name.
 In London, when the deserted husband asked for balm, financial and otherwise, for his wounds, the court ignored thel transaction in South Dakota and found for Demetrius Constantinidi
 Naturally South Dakota is indignant, Judge Levi McGee, an eminent jurist. whose name Is not as familiar in the east as that of Choate or Howe & Hummel, explains that the Constantinidi divorce was obtained by fraud. but he insists that all South Dakota divorces, when ob- talned In the right manner, through the right channel, are just as binding, or un- binding, as any in the world.
 Perhaps Judge Levi McGee is right, but the courts are causing people who desire divorees to look on South Dakota with suspicion. How can she regain her repu- tation for doing the right thing and war ranting It?
 Would it not be well for Dakota to give scarlet trading stamps with every divorce as an incidental inducement?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06

From the Washington Times.
 It is interesting to know what stages the magazine article goes through before the author receives a check or a neatly printed notice. which reads Your manuscript returned with thanks. We regret to say that 1t is not available at present. The fact that a manuscript is declined does not mean that it has not merit"
 In the first place. allowing that pub fisher receives an average of ten man uscripts a day. seven of that number will in all probability be rejecteS at sight The publisher knows from long e<peri- ence that he is safe in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred in disposing summarily of manuscripts whose writers cannot spell and who have not even a lowing acquaintance with Lindley Murray. A rapid glance through the first pages of- manuscript gives fair idea of the liter ary ability of the author-that is in gem eral terms. The common complaint that publishers are not conscientious in the examination of manuscripts is unfound- ed. They are conscientious-it Is to their interest to be so. They are just as desir- ous of discovering the talented young writer as he is to be discovered. But it is not necessary to eat the whole cheese In order to determine it's quality.
 The three manuscripts that remain af- ter the first sitting are sent to certain persons in whose judgment the publisher has confidence. They read them through once, and if they appear to have merit they are sent on to other readers. Every manuscript that has possibilities passes through the hands of four or five read CTS. Each of these makes out detailed report of it, setting forth it's excellence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06

to 25,OOO,O0O tons. Reports of the con- solidation of the two companies have been rife for several days and no later than Wednesday night President Finley of the Monongahela company pronounced the story absolutely untrue"
 George Whitney, who ended the stock transaction, denied that it presaged mer- ger of the two companies, and whatever would be done In this line could not be done until November 1.
 A story is current that the big deal just announced is but the forerunner of one that is gigantic in comparison. It Is said the Pennsylvania railroad has secured practical control in the Pitts burg Coal company and this, with the control of the river coal combination. through the Pittsburg Coal company, will give the Pennsylvania railroad control of one-fourth of the output of bituml- nous coal in Pennsylvania.