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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
POINTED

IFrom the Chicago Daily News.I
An idle brain is the devils scheme fac
tory.
from q fool
Love is blind, especially the brand known
as self-love.
But few men exhibit their bravery un-
til after the danger is past.
Nan is born with a character, but he
has to make his own reputation.
Buy what you don't need and later on
you will sell what you do need.
A lazy man is always anxious to get
busy when there is nothing to do.
The truth would seem less brutal If peo-
pie were better acquainted with it.
Men are always looking for some one to
Moths must be cold-blooded creatures:
they frequently appear in overcoats in Au-
gust.
It may be hard for some people to be
poor. but for others it is the easiest thing
in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

travelling public and the chief energies
Of the roads are being devoted to the
delivery CT the most pressing freight.
But there is still another thing that
impresses the outsider. There are miles
upon miles Of coal shunted to h side
were a part of the railroad dxtureS
Much of It. as is the case in this sec
ton, is near the point of consignment
and a few switching engines could SOON
relieve the situation. This would re
lease hundreds of cars that are so badly
needed and shippers in Detroit whose
hands are now tied and who cannot get
cars at any price, would be relieved OF
the embargo upon their business. That
the railroads could deliver the goods p
pears in the fact that the dealer, or
some one else, is paying for the storage
OF this coal. If non-delivery were the
fault of the railroads they could de-
mand no storage. To make matters
worse, there is a vast amount of coal at
prevailing before the strike, yet in the
west. p~ervaded by a partial coal fam
Inc, thousands Of cars are being utilized
as coal sheds with no other apparent
purpose than to get more than the COM
modify is now worth. While such a sit
uation is voluntarily maintained by the
railroads we fail to see why shippers
who lose through delay. or whose bust
ness is injured because their consign-
ments, offered in the ordinary course of
trade, are refused, cannot obtain lequita-
bic damages. No railroad holds a fran
chise right to blockade its traffic facili-
ties and put it's cars out of commission
hen they are most needed, in order to
help boom the price of coal. There
Interference with the general welfare of
the n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison GlObe.1
How many great things are promised
after you are deadi
Be absolutely honest, and you will De
very disagreeable.
The more you loaf. the more likely you
are to have bad habits.
The trouble is. you can't pick out 2 fool
until he has cost you a great deal of mon
e. or -ouble.
People can tell when a woman %blondines
her hair. and they can tell when she man
ufactures sentiment.
The trouble is that when you see girls
these days with flour on their noses. they
didn't accidentally get it there while cook
ing.
Notice is served on the disconnected that
an AtchiSon man longed for one thing for
ten years, and now that he has it, is more
dissatisfied than ever.
The average man gets so tired of his
boarding house that if a girl looks pretty
when manipulating a chatting dish he IS
hers to carry home any time she says So
In every small town there is a woman
who makes herself unpopular by Dragging
about some elegant dress she has, of
which she says: oh, 1 never wear it in
this town"
Whenever we hear an engagement an
nounced. we think of the stitches to be
taken in the wedding hnery, and wonder
if the world is humping along toward inn
provement, after all.
So little is said about what his children
viii miss IN tender care when a father is
taken, that it seems to be understood with
out any apology that fathers are not nee
essary in a households machinery.
An Atchison woman recently called on
three girls in town and told them that If
they didn't stop inviting her son to par
ties and chatting dish suppers his health
would be ruined and his death would be
on their heads
When q girl climbs down from the shelf.
puts on q low neck party dress and goas
10 a dance, doesn't it remind you Of poor
old Kate Claxton, who ought to be on the
retired list. but who is dragging around
the country trying to renew triumphs Of
her YOUTH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
LEGISLATIVE sIDELIGHTs

Cyrus Leland's first speech before the
legislature was four lines long. It was
against Bale W~aggener's amendment to
Increase tie St Louis worlds fair ap-
proDriation- It resulted in the with
drawal OF the amendment. g
II the bill providing that the counties
shall pay UndeFsheriffs a definite salary.
and the one insuring a salary Of at least
$500 to the sheriff of Shawnee count
get through, Sheriff Lucas viii not have.
to pay his u-ndersheriff but he will be
guaranteed a salary a thousand dollars
in excess of that received by most of til
state officers.
The house ways and means bill to
abolish the office of treasurer in the
state educational Institutions has been.
recommended for passage
King Of Ottawa. Jones of Trego and
Campbell Of Meade have been appoint
ed as the house members of a confer
ence committee on. the Coburn postage
bill This 5 the third conference com
mittee which has wrestled with his
problem Tt is a question of whether
Secretary Coburn shall be allowed 81
600 to send his reports out to people who
want them. or $500 to send them
to county clerks for distribution to peo-
pie who don't want them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
TURNED DOWN.
Senate Committee Reports Ad-
versely on His Nomination.

Washington. Feb. 12-The senate COM
mittee on commerce today agreed to re
port adversely the nomination OF Dr. W.
D. Crum to be collector at the port Of
Charleston, S c. The vote on conhrma-
ton was { to g. All the Democrats
voted against confirmation, and they
were reinforced by Jones CNev.) and
Perkins (CaI9
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, Feb. 12.-The senate went
into executive session today soon after
meeting, but some routine business was
first transacted. A bin was PASSED nix
ing the rank of certain officers in the
army. It provides that any second lieu
tenant in the United States marine
corps who may have been appointed a
second lieutenant of artillery since Feb
ruary II. 1902, shall receive credit for
prior service as a lieutenant of voiun-
taers-
Mr. McComas gave notice that he
would call uD the S-hOur bill at the
earliest opportunity, which brought
from Mr.. Quay the statement that I'M
less the senator from Maryland ana
those obstructionists behind him" con
sent to the fixing Of a day when a vote
can De taken on the statehood bill. he
would any action on the S-hour
At 1925 o'clock on motion of Mr.. Gull
ION, the senate went into executive ses-
sion.
After the confirmation of a number of
LAAA lAA0 N-N ~ =
the Alaskan boundary question the sem
ate in executive session began consider
alton of the Panama canal treaty be-
tween the United States and the repub-
lie of Colombia. Senator Morgan imme-
diately took the floor to urge that the
treaty be amended in many respects
and to oppose it unless amended. He
had been speaking only a short time
when the suggestion was made that
there was not a quorum present. A roll
call brought in the necessary number
and h senator then resumed. He con-
tended that the convention is loosely
drawn and said that in order to properly
safeguard the interests of the United
States it should be practically made
over.
IN THE HOUSE
Washington. Feb. Pm the house to-
day the report on the bin to create a gen
eral star In the army was adopted. After
some routine business of a minor charac-
ter the house went into committee of the
whole and resumed the further considera-
ton of the sundry civil bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
CoMmENr.
We simple liz step.

st. Paul Globe:
In the sea Of uncertainty as to the
proper method to apply to trust belh-
gerency and extOrtion. the proposition
to remove from trust-contrOlled goods
the benefit of tariff protection stands
out sharply as to the simple. just and
natural first step of the government.
In the total of 29T industrial
atoms or trusts capitalized at 81, SOC, 600,
GOO there are 206 capitalized at upwards
Of Sc, loco. 900, 600 that enjoy more or less
tariff protection, and there are 1853 CAPT
talized at over IS. 100000 600 that are
largely protected by the tariff.
In other words, something like three
fourth Of the trusts of America are re-
cipients of government protection ami
largeSseS from the so-called protective
tariff in order to give these trusts
special privileges not generally enjoyed
by the producing and consuming public.
tariff taxes amounting to $3.50, 000, 900 a
year are levied as a prohibition upon
trading with foreign competitors. 70
insure these trusts a monopoly of the do
nestle market to enable them to assess
higher prices at home than abroad, it
is made unlawful and a subject of fine
ana punishment for an American citi.
zen to enjoy liberty in his buying f the
necessaries of life.
What sense is there in talking of pet
ty publicity" tinkering. as long as these
special privileges and tariff walls are
maintained to invite and protect the
monOply2
How trihing and f~arcical is the pro-
sramme to put the trusts under pater-
nal supervision. when the rights OF
citI2enS are transgressed and the func-
tons Of the government usurped to give
the trust a monopoly franchise to collect
% to so per cent higher prices for the
necessaries and comforts of life at home
than abrOad2
Simple justice and the plain road to it
by the removal Of special privileges
would go further to convince the public
or the sincerity and earnestness in this
industrial crisis. than a ton of prolix
and uncertain measures with red-tape
provisions for hampering business oper-
atoms and stopping natural industrial
and commercial development.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
PROGRESS OF VOTING MACHINE

From the Rochester IN. W Democrat
Rochester knows more about voting
machines than any other city. 1t is the
birthplace OF that modern substitute for
the unsatisfactory paper ballot The
first workable voting machine was in
vented and made here. and our citizens
invested thousands of dollars in the en-
terprise when it was but an experiment.
some of them losing all they put into
the business and retaining only the sat
"isfaction Of knowing that they helped
along a great reform.
For a number of years Rochester has
used voting machines exclusively at
elections. and it is safe to say that it
has not only got in its returns ahead
Of all places where the machine was not
used. but that there has been less de-
fectlve voting, fewer errors less
fraud here than in any city in the ooun-
try voting with the paper ballot.
A number Of other cities have also
used the voting machine with success.
but. considering its in~disputable SUI
periority in every way over the old
form Of voting, the machine has not
come into as general use as might be
expected in American communities. II
has been suspected and minated that
the reason for this in some cases is that
$4,000
the voting machine is the deadly enemy
Of fraud at the polls. The count, Of
course, may be unsupported. but it is
there and there Will have to be q con-
spiracy to prevent it's coming out as 1t
went in Whether the incorruptibilitv
Of the voting machine has had anything
TO do with keeping it out Of New York
city thus far or not is an undetermined
question, but it is q fact that New York
has held on to the old paper ballot as
tenaciously as, on some roads. it has
kept its hold or the OLD horse car after
al other cities have discarded it. New
Workers maintain hat their town, on
account Of its bisness and peculiar con
ditions. is in a class by itself. and per
haps it is we'll to give them the benefit
of the doubt.
But even New York falls into line
after awhile with modern progress. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Youtsev,s Confession.

Buffalo Courier:
Former Governor Goebel of Kentucky
mas been a good while in his grave. but
interest in the cowardlv political as
-sassinatiOn has not disappeared. Men
accused OF completely in the crime have
been convicted on circum @antiaI evil
dence, retired. and some Of@them con-
victed again. M of the confederates.
Henry r. Youtsey, has at last made a
tuu confession, in which he says that
James Il. Toward fired the fatal shot.
1or which purpose he was placed at the
front window of the private office OF
caleb Powers, the secretary of state.
among the eight persons named by
Aoutsey, as united in the conspiracy,
was former Governor William H. Tay-
Tor, Tx after his Indictment as an &C
cessory to the murder, fled to Indiana,
where he has since remained lin sanct-
uary, two Republican governors nav
ing refused to honor Kentucky's de-
m2nd for his delivery to its courts in
open defiance of constitutional law.
President Roosevelt, when governor Of
New York, openly proclaimed the same
contempt for a duty imposed by the
constitution. declaring that if Tavlor
anne to his state he would not sur
render him. Yet Taylor only claim to
immunity from the ordinary course of
justice was that he was a Republican
politician. Partisans who have defend
ed this lawlessness on the part Of north
ern governors cannot find words too
strong for expressing their views con-
corning conditions in South Carolina.
Still the killing of Gonzales by Tillman
was not so black a crime as the as
s~assination of Goebel, for the latter was
a planned crime against civil govern
ment as we'll as against the individual
The refugee, Taylor, probably viii re-
main safe in the asylum he has found.
but for life he is a ~disgraced and brand
ed man, in the opinion of law respecting
citizens, for they know that if innocent
he would seek the legal investigation
from which he hides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
NO DAYS OF GRACE.
Kirtland's Bill Would Do Away With
Them.

Kirtland's bill relating to the time
notes fall due has been recommended
for passage in the house. IT does away
with days Of grace entirely. and also
provides that notes which fall 1ue on
Sunday and days commonly observed as
legal holidays shall go over to the day
following. Creditors sometimes insist on
collecting them the day before. and
cases have got into the supreme court
on this point.
There are now only three legal holi-
days in Kansas-Memorial day. May 30:
Labor day. the first Monday of Septem-
Der; and W-ashington's birthday, Feb
ruary %. In addition to these days and
Sundays. the bill provides that notes
which fall due on New Years, January
4. July 4; Thanksgiving. the last
Thursday in November. and Christmas.
December %. shall go over to the day
following.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Hoods ~JdrSdp0ritka
and Pills

Eradicate it, positively and absolute
Iy, This statement is based on the
thousands of permanent cures these
medicines have wrought.
Ny daughter had scrofula, with eleven
sores on her neck and about her ears. Hoods
s%arsaparina was highly recommended and
she took it and was cured. She is now in
good health" MRS. J. 4. JONES. Parker
City, Ind.
Hoods SaYsapaFiia promises So
and keeps the promise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

Dallas women are making an un-
seemly row about a handkerchief that
Mrs. Roosevelt sent them in answer to
their request. There is an old adage
TO the effect that beggars should not
be choosers, which seems especially APP
plicable IN this case. Complaint is
made that the handkerchief is a cheap
cotton affair. So long as it was Mrs.
Roosevelt's name that they hoped to
profit by. what can it natter If they
merely desire a good handkerchief they
could buy one in any Dallas dry goods
store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Rinder Graft Not Yet ID.

Some of these DAYS some member of
the house and senate will rise and re-
mark that the keystone binders. pro-
vided for the members to keep their
bills in, are d good thing but nat more
are needed, and he will move that ABOUT
foul more be provided for each nies1-
Der This is a graft that Is worked
toward the close of nearly every ses-
si5n- The binders are sold to the s;atr
for $40 each. and the man who gets
the graft through gets a rakeoff of about
ore third, amounting gene ally To 500
on $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
Verdict of Fort scott's Jury in Case of
Charles Parmenter.

Fort Scott. Kan. Feb. 12.-The jury
in the case of Charles P~armenter, the
keeper of a Joint. or illicit saloon. who
killed Frank Drummer. a baseball UNI
pire, in a drunken quarrel, last summer,
today returned a verdict of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree. Drummer was
an umpire in the Missouri Valley league
last year and severa. gears ago was con-
nected with minor eastern leagues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

board of elections in that city is about
to hold a competitive test of ballot ma
chimes. and has issued specifications
which must be met by a machine before
It can be accepted. There are now sew
eral machines in the market, and their
makers are busy trying to adapt their
machines to the required conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Averaged $4,000 Words an Hour.

Berlin. Feb. 12=Emperor William
spent part of the morning watching the
Pollak Nigarez biography system work
ing in the technical university. The
apparatus averaged $4,000 words an
hour over a 300 mile circuit. The en-
peror sent for the empress. the minister
of posts, the chief of the general staff
and other distinguished persons and ex-
planned to them technically the way the
apparatus worked. The government will
experiment with it between Berlin and
Koenigsberg, a distance of 40 miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

Manila. Feb. PA hundred Ladrones
attacked Il town of Nanjan. island of
Mindora yesterday. ~Constabulary re
pulsed them after a scattering fight
which lasted several hours during which
one Ladrone was killed and one wound
ed. Twenty women and children living
in the town were injured. Inspector
Crockett. with a large force of mounted
constabuiary has swept through north
ern Rial and southern Balacan, where
Ladrones have been operating, but he
failed to find a trace Of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.J
There never was an ugly girl in the
wofld-ask herl
The FAITHFUL has saved more souls
han the pulpit
There doesn't seem to be much sense
in the way some thin women have such
big feet.
spend as much as the miser hates to
spend it.
If you n a man you can trust in
selling you a horse you want to watch
him mighty carefully when he springs
something bigger on you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Walgren Mav Get Moneu.

During the Fort Riley encampment
last fall. Erie F.. WaIgren, a member
Of Company B. Kansas National
Guards. had his leg broken in military
duty. It has made him a great deal of
trouble and he is still a cripple. The
house has recommended an appropria-
ton of 2, 200 to reimburse him for the
expense and loss Of time he has been
to as q result of the accident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Paid Humbert Reward.

Madrid, Feb. 12-The French embas-
sy here has paid to a lawyer. Senior
Emilio Cotarello $1,000 reward for re-
vealing the hiding places of the Hum
berts, who were arrested in this city
December 10 last. Senior Cotarello hand
ed over the money to the Society St.
Vincent De Paul. a charitable organiza-
fiou
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
ROY EVANS ARRESTED.
Kansas Ball Player Said to Have
Given Bad Cheeks.

Butte. Mont. Feb. 12.-The police to-
day arrested Roy Evans upon a dis
patch from Kansas City, Mo. Evans is
said to have passed three checks aggre-
eating Sl30 here drawn upon a bank OF
Hannibal. Mo. Their return led to the
arrest of Evans.
Evans is a baseball player and is out
in Montana in the interest of Manager
Hanlon. of the Brooklyn baseball team,
securing players.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
Tillman Asks Bail.

Newberry. S. c., Feb. 12.-Application
for bail for former Lieutenant Governor
James II. Tillman. charged with the
murder of N. @. Gonzales at Columbia,
S. c., was argued here this afternoon.
The hearing was presided over by Chief
Justice Pope, who on last Saturday
granted the hearing to attorneys of MI.
TiIlman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
POSTPONED ONCE MORE
Constitutional Convention Cues
tiOn Not Yet Settled.

Because of the poor condition of Bale
Waggener's voice, the proposition for d
constitutional convention has again
gone over. It was set for consideration
for this afternoon at , o'clock, but has
been postponed until the same time next
TEesda$r.
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Eel Under the Wheels.

Decatur. Ill. Feb. 12.-Peter Sellers. aged
70, today put his wife and daughter on 4
train to visit relatives living at Clinton. In
getting off the train at The station here.
Sellers fell under the wheels and received
probably fatal injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
GIVEN UP FOR LOST.
Fishing Schooner With a Crew
of Fourteen Men.

Gloucester. Mass. Feb. 1.-THE Glou-
cester fishing schooner Annie Wesley,
which sailed from this port on Novem-
Der % last for the Georges banks, is be-
lieved to be lost with all on board. The
schooner carried a crew of fourteen
men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

It Is commonly inherited.

II - COHAH4oHly AHncilO0Us
Few are entirely free from it.
Pale, weak, puny children are
afflicted with it in nine cases out Of
ten, and many adults suffer from it.
Common indications are punches in
the neck, assesses, cutaneous erup-
tons, inhamed eyeids, sore ears,
ricketts,, catarrh, wasting, and general
debility.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

The st. Paul Globe suggests the fol-
lowing rule for distinguishing between
good and bad trusts. If they support
opposition party they are bad, other
wise they are all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

The length of time that it has taken
20 WING up the Waterbury strike on
vinces the Milwaukee Wisconsin that
there is something in a name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

AT Washington it is now considered
the proper thing to ascertain the ex-
pressed wishes Of John d. Rockefeller
and then take the opposite course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

DR.. OtDonneITs marriage prohibition
bill probably viii bring to the front
those persons who believe in local OPP
ton ON the marriage question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

Col. Bryan has made a statement in
his paper that ms is not rich. Sub
scribers are expected to take the hint
and pay up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

If there is a desire on the part Of the
legislature to do something really meri-
torious let it pass a law providing for
the Torrens land title system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

The wreck of the Maine now belongs
20 Cuba. VIII she take it up n find
cut how it was made?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

Senators are making the omnibus
statehood bill a basis for talking on
every subject under the sun except the
admission of the territories. Mormon
ism and the isthmian canal are among
the subjects touched upon.