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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

The Detroit Free Press stands I'D for
She rural mail carriers in their demand
for more pay in the following well
chosen words:
In asking for more pay. the rural
mail carriers have a case that merits
the serious consideration of congress
The carriers now receive $500 a wear
out of which they must provide a
horse and wagon, and care for the
horse Their routes vary from twenty
60 dfty miles. over roads that a re-
usually bad and frequently worse. THE
work is hard and exacting. In winter
they are subjected to much exposure
and it would seem as a matter of ms.
ace that they deserved at least as good
pay as the city carriers who encounter
Fewer hardships. The rural delivery
Of mail has become one of the most
successful experiments ever under
taken by the postal department. 1t has
brought the farmer into daily touch
with the world, and has destroyed the
elements of isolation that narrowed the
lives of himself and his family despite
the greatest resistance on their part
With the extension of the service there
should be reasonable compensation for
the carriers. They began their work as
an experiment. ana their salary was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
JAYHAWKER Jors.

Eight pound sweet potatoes are raised
around White Cloud.
Lawrence "boozers' don't take whisky
for whisky's sake. but for asthma.
Cruelty is the grounds upon which Mrs.
Coffee of Atchison is given a divorce.
''Whipcracker'' is responsible for the
broken Fnee vacation of Eureka school
boy.
A Hunnewen hoy has captured white
meadow lark The brand of paint he used
is not stated.
future. Ten acres have been added to
the cemetery.
The old school house at Lane is said to
be haunted and will be sold. The ''spookS"
are probably tramps.
No wonder Cyrus Leland keeps COOL
He is making his second ice pond on his
home place at Troy.
Hamilton citizens whose homes were de-
stroyed by cyclones murmur at the slow
ness of the insurance adjustor.
A Piedmont youngster will manage to
wggle through life without any toes. He
was playing too near the Frisco turnta-
bic.
There is no ''bogie man at large in Will
son county. but a ferocious panther an
sWers the purpose Of curIeW equally as
well.
A family of Lawrence squirrels took up
home in a phone box, where their mer-
trail"
Two Mormon preachers are spreading
the gospel around Liberal and Santa Fe.
They are touring the short grass country
afoot.
The controversy over the Palestine ditch
at Wellington has at last come 10 an end.
There is still some dispute, howeve&, over
How old was Ann?'
A hole IS being sunk on the farm OF
Cap ain Kidd near Fredonia. Buried
treasures of the old pirate chief are not
sought, but simply greasy oil
Automobiles are the latest Topeka fad.
a ere recent en- purchase which is known e as
west side carriage for twins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

A number OF newspapers are persist
emily lecturing the country about hign
prices and declaring that they must
come down before the business activity
which appears to have received a slight
check can be restored. Their position.
seems faulty in view of the fact that
nobody ever saw a renewal of CONNER
cial or industrial prosperity during an
era of falling prices. Again it is urged
that strikes and the demands OF Iapor
are responsible for the changed situation
and the unions are reminded that if they
don't look out there will be no work for
their members. Probably no more ef-
tectual method of stopping strikes could
be found than to suspend work of every
Kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
*Inerease.
PERMIT NO. 1.
Conklin & Gustafson First Plumbers
to Dig Under the New Law.

Plumbing Inspector Ed CLANCY has
issued his first permit, under the new
law, for the placing of plumbing. Per-
nit No l went to Conklin & Gustafson,
and the work is being done in new
house at 1907 West Sixth street The
fee paid for the permit was 81, which
shows that the job will cost over 800.
The new plumbing law requires that
q plumber must have a permit to do
any kind of work, and the permit must
be issued by the plumbing inspector.
Then the inspector must o. K. the job
after it IS done The cost of the per-
nit varies with the expense of the job.
Mr. CLANCY said today: 1.-The plumb
ers all like the new law. They do not
object to taking an examination, CT
paying for permits. because the law
protects them from inferior competition.
At the same time, it insures people of
good, sanitary plumbing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
GRADING on MCPHERSON.
It Was Commenced Today and Is a
Big Task.
aiding for the new

Grading for the new pavement on
Jefferson street between Eighth and
Tenth has commenced. The feature of
this job is that al Ninth street there will
be cut of TX feet made from the pres
ent level of the street. This is one of
the deepest cuts in the city, and it win
cost the property owners a lot of money
to have their parks cut down 10 the
grade of the pavement. At present the
street rises gradually from Eighth to
Ninth and then falls between Ninth and
Tenth so when the pavement IS con-
structed it will be almost level between
Eighth and Tenth.
The work of grading for the new
''bifurcated" pavement north of the
governors mansion has been completed.
This. block of pavement Is divided into
two parts by a little park and a row Of
large elm trees. Paving of this street
will begin at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
poINrED PARAGRAPHS.


Poverty brings many strange landlords.
Figures may not lie, but estimates are
often misleading.
In the swell cafe there's many tip
'twixt the cup and the lip
If angels fear to tread where fools rush
in they should use their wings.
An optimist is a man who thinks his
neighbors are almost as good as nm
self
No. Cordelia. don't think for a minute
that because every man has his price,
he gets it,
Il is the man at the little end of the
horn who is either hooted or applauded
by the crowd.
A man may be the architect of his own
fortune but he can't induce the sun to
shine in every ROOM
The canary stops singing in his old age,
but the poet keeps everlasungly at 1t TIL
the undertaken gets busy
If every man would Jake as much inter
est in his work as ne does IN trying to
avoid it poverty would soon be a word
without meaning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. r. T. Hogeboom is in the city
visiting for a few days.
Miss Ellen Wood of Kansas City is in
the city for a few days.
Meet me at the Halloween party at
Steinberg's hall Saturday night.
Miss Bertha Owen of Leavenworth,
Kan, is visiting relatives in the city.
DE- and Mrs. VanHorn of Olathe,
Kan, are stopping at the Throop hotel.
Eugene B. Stotts, of Garden City, is
in Topeka to attend the hotel mems con-
vention.
Rev w. H. Moore of Winfield, Kan,
is visiting his family for few days
at S2S Kansas avenue.
Mrs. Alice Close and son, Guy, OF
Louisville, KY, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Wright.
Mrs. Walter Rogers of Kansas City is
here visiting her mother, Mrs. c. Still
son of 1925 Kansas avenue.
Dolores Marburg Bacon, formerly
of Kansas girl who was born in Atchl-
Harpers' Bazaar entitled When Mary
Ann Left Home
A street car on the Washburn college
line at noon today met in collision
with a haywagon near Fifteenth ana
College avenue. The wagon was badly
damaged and the front vest1bule Oh the
car was caved in.
| Mrs J. A Batty of Kansas City was
in Topeka yesterday searching for a
| trace of her daughter, Myrtle Wilson
Mrs Batty was divorced from the
chiId's father several years ago. and re-
married. He had charge of the girl.
but she has recently been given custody
of her daughter by the court. While
here she was informed that her former
husband had sent the daughter to the
Beloit Industrial school.
Two little negroes had a preliminary
hearing in city court today on the
charge of grand larceny. Both of them
were accused of stealing bicycles
Frank Thompson was bound over to
THE district court, but the other boy,
CLYDE Walker. was discharged. The
Thompson boy seems to have mania
for stealing bicycles. He had finished
a sentence in the city Jail for stealing
bicycle only two days before he stole
two more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29


that two negatives are equal to an at
drmatiye.
It's all right to speak well of the dead,
but don't slur the living.
Every woman feels that in some way
or other she can inspire envy
Many a fellow has been turned down
while waiting for something to turn up
A man can't even blow his own horn
successfully without considerable prac-
tice.
After man reaches the age of 100
he can make a nice living writing testl-
monials for health foods.
Marriage is generally a failure to the
fellow who buys the engagement ring
on the installment plan.
Because a mermaid can't dance is no
reason why she shouldn't enjow cod
fish ball
The one thing a man is always will
ing to share with others is his good
opinion of himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
1T WILL BE COLDER.
That Is the Prediction of the Weather
Bureau.

The duck hunters have been waiting
and planning to proceed against the
mallards today and tomorrow on the
strength of Cider Smiths prediction
that there would be a change in the
weather on October %.
The government forecast seems to
partially agree with Mr. Smith The
government forecast for Kansas sent
out today was Generally fair. tonight
and Friday Cooler Friday and west
portion tonight" The wind at noon to-
day was south. blowing Ii miles an
hour. The hourly temperatures record
ed by the government thermometer to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Passing of the BILLBOARD.

There can be no doubt that newspa-
per advertising is rapidly increasing its
lead over the billboard in the favor of
the advertiser. The public has again
are again expressed it's opposition to
the billboard. and with city after city
psssing laws abolishing the unsightly
disfgurements. the bill board is in q
fair way to become thing of the past
billboard dininishes. and who will deny
that the newspaper of today is far
greater factor in the publicity field than
it was even year ago? As advertisinS
grows more out of its infancy and out of
its experimental state. the up-Io-dat tie
periodicals are looked upon as the prop
er mediums through which to reach the
public.-From Newspaperdom-
City Ticket Office, Union Pacific
Railroad 525 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

The extreme improbability that a fin
ancial panic can ever again take place
1n this country is illustrated by the fact
ahat over a million dollars in cash has
been forwarded from New York to St.
Louis in the past As hours TO meet a
run on the trust companies in the latter
city There is money in the country
sufficient to meet all urgent require
ments and all that is needed is to put it
where there is a weak spot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

An up-to-date model gymnasium will
be shown next year at the Worlds fair
for the first time in the history OF expo
sitions. The gymnasium will form part
of the physical culture exhibit The
building, which is now nearing compile
ton, is a stone, fire proof structure, and
is situated at the extreme western end
of the grounds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Apollo Recital.

Remember the Apollo recital tonight
and tomorrow night beginning at 8
p. m. at the piano rooms of E. B.
Guild Music Co. You will hear music
rendered in a style unsurpassed in a
manner you never heard before, by F.
Howard Hill. the greatest exponent of
the capabilities of piano PLAYERS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

fixed arbitrarily at a very low figure in
comparison with the salaries paid in
general in the government service. They
are doing their work faithfully and
well, and the man who covers a 50-mile
route six days in the week. rain or
shine, should certainly be paid as much
as a government clerk who never works
more than eight hours a day and has
thirty DAYS vacation every year"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Protest Against Employment Bureau.

Paris, Oct PA serious riot occurred
today in front of the Bourse de Travail.
labor exchange, in the workingmen $
district in which several policemen and
dozen rioters were seriously wounded
and many others were slightly injured
Numerous arrests were made. L ne
trouble followed meeting of 5000 per
sons who protested against the estab-
lishment of a municipal employment
hI1real..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

If Emperor William had been presi-
dent of the United States and had been
pulled out of bog as he was recently,
it is probable that the opposition news
papers would have called him "Old stick
in the mud but they do things differ
emily IN Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
FIVE BOATS TIED UP
Owing to a Lack of Negro Deck
Hands.

Memphis. Oct 29.-Because of a lack
of negro labor five steamboats,, includ-
ing two United States mail carriers, are
tied up at this point. Negro roust-
abouts are demanding S125 per month
with one day off. Old river men say
these conditions are unprecedented
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

Rev. John S. Cox of Wake, Ark, writes:
For II years 1 suffered from yellow iaun-
dice. I consulted a number of physicians
and tried all sorts of medicines, but got
no relief. Then / began the use of Electric
Bitters and feel that l am now cured of a
disease that had me in its grasp for L
years. If you want a reliable medicine
for liver and kidney trouble. stomach dis
orders or general debility, get Electric
Bitters. It's guaranteed by Arnold Drug
Co., 81 North Kansas ave. Only 90 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
HALF A MILLION.
Net Earnings of Santa Fe Show
Large Increase.

Chicago, Ill, Oct. .2s.-The September
statement of the Santa F'e made a
splendid showing. Gross earnings for
the, month show an increase of nearly
three-quarters of a million, making an
increase in gross for the first quarter
of the fiscal year, to September &c. over
81, 250, 600 The increase in net for Sep
TENDER was over 100000 and for the
quarter to September 80, $1,000, 900 in
round numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

Washington Post: In selecting a sue
cessor to Judge Caldwell, of the United
States circuit court Of appeals. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has thrown a Hook into
Senator Burton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Triple Tie. Attention.

The members of No. 9 are requested
to attend the funeral of our late Sister
McSpadden. at the Westminster Pres
byterian church. corner of College ave-
nue. and Huntoon street. tomorrow at
1890 a. M Members of No. A kindly
requested to attend with us.
N n. CONFER, President.
MRS. H. J. MOORE, Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Death of Mr.. zahner,s Mother.

Mrs. Wilhelmina Zahner, the aged
mother of A. tanner of this city, died
this morning at her home in New Phil
adelphia, Ohio. Mr.. and Mrs. Zahner
left this afternoon for Ohio to attend
the funeral
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

The sugar trust is selling refined su-
gar at Missouri river points at rs points
below the price in San Francisco where
the sugar is refined, and at Kansas City
at 120 below San Francisco 1t is said
that at competitive places sugar is SELL
ing below actual cost and the places
that are not competitive are paying
profit that makes up for those losses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

Dowie insisted that the newspaper
men were all liars and when they pegaIl
70 print the truth about him he was
angrier than before. The world is full
of people like the Restorer in their esti-
nation of the newspaper They give
no credit for what is not published.
Probably there is not paper in the
country that could't keep the entire
community in which it is published in
q constant turmoil if it cared to do So
and print nothing not absolutely true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

Because F. Augustus Heinze won in
the Minnie Healey mining suit and also
secured an injunction against the Bos-
ton and Montana company, all the pro-
perties of the Amalgamated Copper
company in Montana have been shut
down and 10000 men are thrown out of
work The Amalgamated company al
leges that there is no use trying to do
business in Montana because the local
courts are averse to the company. Per
haps it is a coincidence but the courts
are nearly always wrong when they
don't decide in our favor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom New York Press.I

When a man once gets into debt
about the only way for him to get out Of
it is to die.
Pretty nearly always the woman who
believes in the novels where the hero
kisses the heroines feet blacks her nus
bands boots.
Generally when woman goes out of
her way to speak of her servants hall
she means the kitchen chair where the
hired elrl sits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Apollo Recital.

Remember the Apollo recital tonight
and tomorrow night beginning at 8
D. m. at the piano rooms of L. B.
Guild Music Co. You will hear music
rendered in a style unsurpassed in a
manner you never heard before, by F.
Howard Hill. the greatest exponent of
the Capabilities of piano players.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Shot at President of Peru.

Areauipa. Peru, Oct pa man fired
three shots from revolver here yes
terday at former President Romano.
Senior Romano was unhurt and the as
sassin escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

It is not recorded that any deputy
sheriff tried to levy on the chariot OF
the first Elijah. Any such interior
ence probably would have resulted in
burnt fingers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Recordl
It's other peoples money that is the
root of all evil
When a girl refuses a fellow the sec
ond time it doesn't necessarily imply
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Low Rates
South and Southeast

on OCTOBER goth The LOUISVILLE
NASHVILLE RAILROAD will sell Round Trip
Tickets from st Louis, Evansville. Louisville and
Cincinnati to the following points at the
lowest rates ever named. Tickets will be
good returning for twenty-one CID days
from date of sale. and stopovers will be
permitted on going trip tx points south
of acknowledgements state line:
FROM ST. LOUIS TO
New Orleans. s12.0o Atlanta. $1,000
Mobile $1,000 Montgomery. s12oo
Birmingham, $1,000 Pensacola, S14.60
FROM LOUISVILLE TO
New Orleans. si4.oo Atlanta. si1.o0
Mobile S14.OO Montgomery. Sf400
Birmingham, SlI.00 Pensacola, S140o
FROM CINCINNATI TO
New Orleans. $1,000 Atlanta. s1t.oo
Mobile Sf4.OO MONTGOMERY. $1,000
Birmingham, 90 Pensacola, S14.00
FROM EVANSVILLE TO
New Orleans. $1,000 Atlanta. S11.o0
Mobile. $1,000 Montgomery, $1,000
Birmlnnham, S11.oo Pensacola. 14.0o
Rates TO intermediate Points to be the same
Proportionate1y low rates to points west
of New Orleans as far as Houston. To
Jacksonville, Fla, and intermediate points
50 higher than rate to Atlanta.
Take advantage of these very low rates
to make a trip through the SOUTH to IN
vestigate :ts wonderful resources ana
opportunities.
Time tables, folders. maps and descrip-
tive literature relative 10 lands, truck and
stock farming along the line of the
Louisville & Nashville R. R.
-, -, A -,~o,, ,~1lioa.i,n =, G T..
Stone, general passenger agent Louis
Vile XIV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

as football brutal?" inquiries an editor
in a headline. Let him go out and
Try it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Lack IIlEIiIiEI
Railroad

This is the road
that runs through
the most beautiful
scenery, and its SER
vice is just what you
are looking for
diners, observation
cars, Pullmans, high
back seat coaches
and all very good
Inquire of your local railroad ticket agent
or write
GEORGE A. CULLEN, G. w. P. A.
1o3 Adams Street
CHICAGO
P. Sour double track
roadbed is said to be the
smoothest in America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

ael. Duke Constantine of Oldenburg,
who was the most intimate friend OF me me
Grand Duke George, has constitutes
himself the champion of Prince Cyrn'
anc~i Is Conducting a regular agitation in
his behalf.
The legal objection to the claim mace
on behalf of the Grand Duke Georges
GEORGES marriage was invalid, because
it was contracted without the consent
of the czar.-Philadelphi Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

The ladies Of the Branch Alliance of
Unity church give a sheet and pillow
case social on Halloween. October 81. at
Unity church..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

f. A. Hubbard. of Kansas City, ar
rived in oTpeka last evening in his
giant Scorchmont automobile. and left
f over night at the Overton livery. Mr..
H,hhard made the run from Kansas
CITY in four and half hours with four
messengers. and spent the evening
touring the city. His machine is the
largest that has yet appeared in To-
peka-S greats
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
GIVE 1T A TRIAL.

The next time your stomach becomes
weak and you suffer from Loss of APP
petite, BelcEing, Heartburn, Nausea,
Cramps. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, or
Constipation, we urge trial of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. You'll be well
pleased with the result, because it posi-
lively cures such complaints Hundreds
of sickly men and women have testified
to its efficacy. Get the genuine with our
Private Stamp over the neck of bottle.
H0STETTER'S
STOMACH BlTTERS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

sswhen saw him he had just come
home from cunning trip
And did he bring home Dig 3as
NO but he brought home Dig Drag
DC ,,s1,al s.-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

City Ticket Office, Union Pacific
Railroad. 525 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Louisville & Nashville R. R.

will be sent upon a3plca lion to c L.
Stone, general passenger agent, Louis
Vile, Ky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Going
to
New York +?

There is just one
route that will prove
thoroughly satisfac-
tory-the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

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