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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-05

T. coCKRELL Agent Albany.
H. n CRoNIsE Agent. Corvallis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
THE PARENTS, PART.

LFrom the indianapolis SentineLl
The most overworked and underpaid
of all brainworkers is about to start in
on her nine-month stretch of labor
The three months vacation-a longer
period than is given to any other wage
earner-which is given each year to re-
duce to a minimum the number of cases
of nervous prostration in the ranks of
school teachers, is nearing an end. The
ringing of the bell on the first day of
school may be joyful note to the par
ent, to the pupil and even to a few
strong-nerved teachers. whose enthusi-
assn for their work supersedes all else:
to the vast majority. however. the only
happy thought rs that on this day the
interrupted salaries are beginning again.
Much-probably quite enough-has
been written about the overwork of
modern school children. THE slaughter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
Mr.. HOFFMAN HERE.
Says Natural Gas Project Is
Well Under Way.

Chris Hoffman, of Enterprise, presi-
dent of the company which proposes to
pipe natural gas to Topeka, is in To-
peka today on business connected with
his company. He said to a reporter for
the State Journal:
I'VE are now interesting some strong
financial men in the company. One To-
peka capitalist whose name l am not
just now at liberty to disclose, has about
decided to come in with US. W. A.
White, cashier of the Abilene National
bank has taken stock in the company.
We believe that we will make the pro-
ject go without difficulty.
I'VE have brought in new well since
the franchise was granted to US. We still
expect to pipe the gas from the vicinity
of Chanute We are now at work Sc
curing a right of way from the farm
ers."
A NJ. Harvey, local attorney for the
company. is in charge of the right of
way work He will spend considerable
time from now on visiting the owners of
land between here and Chanute, secur-
ing the right to lay the pipe line. He
says:
I'VE have consulted some very high
legal authorities in regard to the pos
sibility of being enjoined from piping
gas away from Chanute and we feel
that we are safe and can not be mo
Tested in this way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
C. [. SHORT RESIGNS.
Former Topeka Man Quits Santa
Fe After "a Years.

Chanute,v Sept. 2.-Trainmaster
Charles l. Short today forwarded his
resignation to the Santa Fe officials at
Topeka.
Mr.. Short will be relieved some time
in October but will remain in Chanute
experimenting his oil interests in the
America company. Speculation is rife
as to who will be his successor. Chief
Dispatcher Cronin is in direct line for
the position but it is stated that the
promotion will be rendered an Argen-
tine man. Supt. Barnes is concerned
chiefly in the selection of a new train
master and his recommendation to the
general superintendent will probably
receive confirmation.
Trainmaster Short has been associated
with the Santa Fe in numerous cir
ties for "a years. He began his training
on the central division between Emporia
and Nickerson. Going thence to the main
line he punched tickets for ten years be-
tween Kansas City and Topeka. His abil-
ity finally landed him in Madison, Ia, as
trainmaster, from whence he was trans
ferred here. The increasing value of the
American company demands the whole at
tention of a careful, sagacious business
man and Mr. Short. one of the principal
stockholders, was selected to assume COM
plete management of its affairs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
IAYHAWKER JoTs.

lola is gloating over the opening of
the oyster season
lola hens are setting rather than lay
ing. consequently the town has an egg
famine.
Another old theory is exploded. A
Clay Center woman has kept a secret
for two years.
Douglas county is to have a poultry
exhibit in December and chicken fan
ciers are already Growing over it.
A Salina woman has gained consid-
cradle notoriety by being able to hit
a burglar in one shot out of three.
The awful charge is made against
the Lawrence police that they can smell
a beer key further than hog pen.
Whisky doesn't make all the trouble
in Kansas. Salina is having a Town
Row" over the action of the water
sDrinklars.
Even the corner loafers al lola admit
that the young girls who fiirt along
the streets paint their cheeks too deep
a crimson.
Leavenworth is a funny old town.
Men are arrested for neglecting to pay
their dog tax and saloons are allowed
to run wide open.
An airy fairy crop bulletin from Lyon
county raises cucumbers on Pike
township farm fourteen inches long and
nine inches around
A Franklin county youth found
sack of shoes in field of maize. The
footwear was probably cast away on
account of injury to the corn.
A blind horse with a cart attached
fell in ditch in the heart of Lawrence
and the dear old sleepy Athens failed
to find it out for twenty-four hours.
A formerly of Atchison man has made
fortune manufacturing baby caps. A
Topeka bartender is doing fairly we'll.
thank you. manufacturing night caps.
An Atchison negro who started in
with a circus as tent hand has risen in
year to the dignity of keeper of the
monkeys" with salary of $25 a
month
A curious days happening at Hutch
inson was an invasion of thousands of
grasshoppers. The following morning
they had disappeared, where, none knew
or carad.
A Wichita colored resident known as
Biscuit struck his sister such a pow
erful blow that the rebound landed him
in police court The judge thinking it
plain case of ''Uneeda" gave him 500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
CATTLE CASE IS ON.
Freight Rate Hearing Com
mences Today.

The cattle rate case brought by the
cattle shippers of the state against the
railroads, which was continued last
week. was again commenced before
the state board of railroad commission
ers this afternoon.
About thirty shippers are present at
the hearing, but most of the traffic
managers of the railroads will not get
in till tomorrow, as they are holding
meeting in Chicago today. The rail-
road companies are represented the
same as last week except that B. P.
Waggener is here for the Missouri Pa
ctfic, and M. A. Low is himself ap-
pearing for the Rock Island.
The railroads took new tack as soon
as the hearing was called this after
noon.
Under what section of the railroad
law is this complaint brought" asked
Bale Waggener of S. S. Ashbaugh, at
torney for the cattlemen.
Under the entire law" replied Mr..
Ashbargh
Then" said Mr.. Waggener. I'VE OBJ
Ject to this hearing on the ground that
this board has no jurisdiction as this
complaint is brought"
Mr.. Waggener then argued that un-
der the law only a consignor, a con-
slgnee, the mayor and council of any
city, or the trustee of any township
could bring a complaint against rates.
not so brought. He also alleged that
as the rates are not yet in force the
complaint is of no effect, because the
complainant must have a grievance at
the time the complaint is made.
M A Low followed Mr.. Waggener en-
tering the same objection. I'm addi-
ton he said, there is no provision
authorizing anybody to take a shot at a
whole flock of railroads as this COM
paint does" A. A. Hurd for the Santa
Fe, N. H Loomis for the Union Pacific,
and w. w. Guthrie for the Burlington,
entered the same objection.
MI. Ashbaugh. for the cattlemen, urged
that the complaint read, we the un-
dersigned cattle shippers of the state of
Kansas" IF cattle shippers are not
consignors, what are they?" he demand
ed.
He also argued that the rates have al
ready been promulgated and that the
board therefore has jurisdiction over
them, especially as all the railroad corr
panies have filed answers to the COM
plants.
A good portion of the afternoon will
probably be spent in arguing this point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02

of the innocents'' is more or less discuss
ed each year. But few synlpathize with
the teacher Too few think of her.
Each day of the school year finds her
a little trieder than on the preceding
morning; the end of each summer va
cation finds her a little tireder than at
the end of the preceding summer.
The teacher is at all times facing
the severest of crosshres. The parents
always ready to give her pointers on
how a school should be taught. watch
her every move. Her half dozen
bosses-for the teacher in the modern
city school has at least that many
have their eyes upon her. Fifty obser-
want children are ready to make her
life miserable is she makes the slight
est faux pas. and she lives in a heart
breaking, nerve-raeking fear of failure.
A horde of teachers, some fresh
from their all too brief vacations and
some with headaches superinduced by
summer courses in normal schools, is
about to resume the charge of young
Indianapolis But they will not long
be fresh. The substitutes will soon have
regular employment. The steady grind
of the school-room will soon tell its
story.
bear more helpful hand than the par
ents. When Johnny says that she has
been mean" do a little investigating
before you add to her troubles by re-
porting her. The child may be wrong
children often are. Make all allowances
for provocations of which you know
nothing. Remember that if the teach
er lost her temper one-half as often as
you would do under similar circum-
stances there might be come cause for
complaining to the superintendent The
head of the school plays an important
part in the education of the young, but
his position does not begin to compare
in Importance with that of the parents
in their attitude toward the teachers.
A child in the wrong, encouraged by
an over-credulous and stubborn par
ent can do more harm in school
room in few days than the teacher
can overcome with weeks of patient la
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02

Plenty of small houses at moderate
rentals make more for the increase of
population and business than anything
else. There is a woeful lack of these
now. Those who are fortunate enough
to be housed must pay advanced rents
The agencies are besieged with appli-
cations. Capital ought to ask nothing
better than this opening. Cheap land
and high rents promise it big returns.
Nothing can be more certain than that
vacant property obtained at the pres
ent time and so improved will return a
liberal rate of profit for years to come
Nothing can be more certain than that,
at the present rate of growth of the
city, and considering the very mod
crate prices now asked for all kinds of
property. the natural increase in values
of all such holdings, apart from their
rent returns, viii be very handsome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
KEPT FROM THE PUBLIC
Saturdays Santa Fe Wreck Re-
suits I'm One Death.

The railroad accident which occurred
in the Santa Fe yards at Great Bend
at 8:S5 p. M August 20, a thorough re-
port of which was held up by the local
officials, seems to have been a more
serious affair than the officials were viii
ling to admit. AS a result OF the acci-
dent one man is dead, another is serious
ly injured and Engineer Carr is suffer-
ing from a broken ankle and scalp
wound.
The accident referred to occurred last
Saturday evening. Engine No. $40 was
backing down the main line at that
point and ran into the engine of train
rs which OH account of the careiessness
of the crew was without a headlight
The equipment was not damaged to
any extent but three of the train men
were injured. Brakeman V. L. Scott,
of Great Bend had his left leg cut Off
and died later from the injury. Engi-
neer Carr was cut about the head and
had an ankle broken and according to
reports received here Fireman William
son was also severely injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
BURTON WILL PROTEST..
County Attorney Doesn't Want AS
bell Set Free.

E. L. Burton, county attorney of La
bette county, is here today to enter his
protest against granting a pardon to
Marion Asbell. whose application was
heard by Governor Bailey on Monday
The governor himself is attending a re-
union today at Baxter Springs. but Mr.
Burton conferred with Judge ]. s.
West, who investigates all the lesai
phases Of the pardon cases presented TO
the governor
The showing made to Governor
Bailey on Monday by AsbelPs friends
was simply TO prove to him that there
is sufficient new evidence to warrant
him in reopening the case. That fine
governor was considerably IMPRESSED
by the showing made is evidenced that
ne mas nad Judge West 20 through the
evidence originally presented in Az
case Before taking action. however
he would doubtless give the opponents
OF the pardon a chance to De heard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
KEYSTONE DEMOCRATS.
They Meet in State Convention
and Adopt a Platform.

| Harrisburg. Pa, Sept. 2.-The DEM
ocratic state convention was called TO
order by State Chairman Hall at 12;2O
today. Following the reading of the
formal call for the convention, Chair
man Hall announced that William j.
Bremen, of Pittsburg, had been select
ed temporary chairman by the execu-
tive committee. Mr. Bremen accepted
the position in {. brief speech.
| Following is an abseract of the plat
form adopted:
The organized Democracy of Penn
lsylvania, addressing Pennsy1vanians or
all political parties again calls upon
/ them to unite with ii in supreme Ell
fort to rid our commonwealth OF tnat
selfish, corrupt, extravaganza ana oe-
basing rule which still controls its af-
fairs We repeat the charges elab-
GRATED in the platform of our last state
teonvention and reaffirm that TO the
pledges and to the candidates OF the
Democratic party alone can the people
of our state turn for deliverance from
the evils under which they suffer.
Not one pledge made by the Republi-
can machine as a condition OF It's con-
tinuance in power has been kept, Iooay
we witness the astonishing spectacle OF
almost the entire Republican press OF
the state and county .denounelng the
governor for his approval of the Grady
Salus libel law, the product, as they
declare, of the worst motives dnG DuI =
poses of the Republican machine This
law they charge was deliberately IN
tended by its authors and promoters as
an assault upon the freedom OF the
press
ITO the receal of this measure the
state can safely count upon the vote and
effort of every Democratic member of
the next legislature. To the defeat OF
the candidate who stands for the Dur-
poses behind it and the methods of its
adoption. we pledge the best efforts or
our party and invite the aid of Repub-
lican voters.
I'VE denounce the Republican organ
ization for its repeated and persistent
disregard of it's pledges to give the state
fair ballot and on behalf of the peo-
pie of the state We demand the enact
ment OF a ballot law which shall pro-
vide for personal registration or voters
in the cities of the state, insure a free,
equal secret ballot and the opening of
ballot boxes obligatory when demanded
by citizens charging contemplated or
accomplished frauds.
We deplore the continued existence OF
labor troubles and express the hope that
through concession, moderation and fair
dealing. early adjustments may be
rea ched.
while we concede to capital and to
employers the utmost protection guaran-
teed by the constitution and laws. we. also
declare it to be our conviction that labor
has the right to that protection which
comes through organization and union.
The platform opposes the present system
of taxation and faVOrs the repeal OF all
mercantile license taxes and return into
uries of all other license taxes collected
therein
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record.

from the Philadelphia Record
The egotist is always contented.
It's a waste of time to advise a fool.
The proprietor of a comic paper lives
by his wits.
The birds of a feather that flock to-
gether must be Jail birds.
People who marry at their leisure
sometimes repent in haste.
The office that seeks the man is al
ways the one that no man wants.
The man with a bad temper isn't
any more amiable when he loses it.
Consistency should be the most valu-
able of jewels, considering its rarity.
An honest confession may be good
for the soul. but it is apt to sever
friendships.
We are told that figures never lie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
MORE BEAUTY DON'TS. "
If You Would Be Belle at 4o-A Wo.
man Never Too Old to Fascinate.

Don't think you are too old to do this.
too old to do that. You are always as
young as you feel People grow old by
thinking themselves old.
Don't think you are too old to be
young. Live a young life, which has a
tendency to keep up youthful 1ooks.
Woman, while not being kittenish or
'hud,' need never be old in her ways
Don't think that you are forbidden to
think of your looks, or to attend to
your appear ance, because you happen
to be thirty. Balzac has said that a
woman of thirty is at her most fasci-
mating and dangerous age-that is,dan-
gerous to the hearts of men.
Don't make a mistake about ito be
young, to be in the first, faint flush of
youth, is no longer the fashion. The
fashionable age for successful society
woman is between thirty and forty
Don't, however, go ON the housetop
and proclaim to the world that you are
forty and glad of it.
Don't attempt repair and preservation
of beauty with paints. powders and
wells. Take plenty of exercise stand
erect, sit erect. When you speak, let
your voice possess volume and energy.
When you think, think freshly.
Don't say you haven't time for the
afternoons forty winks." Take it,and
your renewed strength will show in a
freshened complexion. A half hours
nap after luncheon will do more 10
fers in the world.
Don't think that life of ease and
luxury is essential to preserving youth
full, delicate looks. A certain amount
of work and exercise is necessary to
keep the muscles firm and elastic and
the flesh hard.
Don't let go of love or love of ro-
nance. They are amulets against
wrinkles. Not all of the worlds hon.
age is poured at the feet of girlhood
Don't fancy that the dew of youth
with its complexion of roses. is alone
able to inspire passion. A woman s
best and richest years are from thirty
six to forty. The old saw about sweet
sixteen" is exploded.
Don't be glum if you want to be
young. Dance and sing and, above all
laugh. Ride, drive, row, swim and
walk a mile-or make it three-daily
Keep your heart young, and thus defy
Father Time.
Don't belong to the 'old folks and
nod through the evening hours because
your boy is at college.
Don't be afraid that some one will
say, why she goes about like a young
grill" If you feel light and easy in
motion, why be staid, moping. artificial
because you are supposed to be so, be-
ing no longer young?
Don't be envious disheartened OF
impatient. Those evil habits make
ugly lines in the face. Do gentle, kind
generous things without thought of re-
turn.
Don't think there is intense respeeta-
bility in being rather ugly because you
are old No old person has a right to
be ugly. She has had all her life in
which to grow beautiful-Washing
Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
LELAND DENIES 1T.
Correets Statement About House
Steering Committee.

Cyrus Leland does not approve of an
editorial statement in a morning paper
that in the last legislative house "a
steering committee composed of Cy Le-
land and two others was appointed To
determine on the officers to be chosen
from speaker down to superintendent
and assistant superintendent ofventila-
ton
THAT statement is the worst kind of
Misrepresentation" said Mr.. Leland to-
day, hut it is on a par with other
statements from the same source. There
was a nominating committee appointed
in the house Republican caucus, just
as there always is, but 1t was COM
posed of two members from each con-
gressional district. This is how near
the statement comes to the TRUTH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
LOCAL MENTION.

Jesse Campbell, who has been visit
ing with the family of Councilman }.
G. Simmer has returned to his home
at Clarendon, Texas.
People on East Fourth street are get
ting ready to demand that the santa
Fe railway pave it's Fourth street cross
ing. The crossing is very rougn, ana
causes considerable damage to vehicles.
new show is coming to town soon
to stay through the fair. 1t is penny
in the slot picture mill, which will To-
cate next to Crawford's opera house.
There are about 80 slot machines in the
show, and the patron can play as many
or as few as he likes.
John Kaberline filed suit in city court
yesterday against John Schmidt for
money still due on a house which
Schmidt had purchased of him. 1t seems
Schmidt had partly paid for the house
when the flood came along and literally
took it off his hands. In fact the flood
took it entirely off the map of North
Topeka, and left very little of the lot
upon which it stood. Therefore Schmidt
refuses to pay the balance.
A mistake was made in a story about
the sheriff who came to Topeka for
Hickey the Hoyt horsethief who was
captured here The sheriff's name is
Ed s. Bateman instead of Myers.
The police have arrested Earl Felitz
aged II. on the charge of petit larceny
He is charged with stealing Sc from his
employers, S. B. Martin, a carriage
maker.
Assistant City Attorney Ralston
drew up a new express wagon ordi-
nance today to be presented to the
council Monday night 1t absolutely
prohibits express wagons from stand
ing on Kansas avenue from Gordon to
Twentieth. and also between Quincy
and jackson on Fifth. Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth streets.
| A crowd of palmistry artists have
pitched big tent at Seventh and Jack
SOP, across the street from Mayor Ber-
gundthals office. and are preparing to
stay a while They have taken out a
months license.
So far ten hucksters have paid their
| license; about ten others have been
granted free licenses. Five of the free
licenses were for old soldiers, ard five
were granted to men who lost heavily
in the North Topeka flood.
John Strickrott who has been very
sick with typhoid fever at Colorado
Springs is much improved.
| Sixty members of the Ohio club will
| go to Ottawa Thursday where they will
attend picnic given by the Franklin
county club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

tFIOAh the new Ork freSS-J
A woman likes to argue because it is
such good exercise for the tongue.
When a girl is flirting with a man she
calls him her sutton; when she means
business he is her plain beau.
A woman is always trying to get some
new kind of a stay that vii show every
thing while not meaning to do it.
Mighty few people know enough when
they have licked man not to goad him
into another fight where he has nothing
to lose.
Generally YOU can tell man who is
worrying over how he can pay the family
milk bill by the way he buys champagne
down town to show he has plenty of
money.