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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
ON FIRE AGAIN.
Another COnflagration in Heart
of Rochester.

Rochester. N. Y, March "A danger
Gus fire is burning in the heart of the
business district near Main and State
streets. The blaze started in the Olyrn-
pla Candy store and is spreading, and
all the fire apparatus in the city has
been called. Nearby buildings are
Powers hotel block and the Ellewood
building, a tall office structure,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

Almost every notable sale of real
estate in Topeka takes money out of
the city instead of bringing it in. The
Keith block and the Bennett flats are
examples. It is creditable to Topeka
citizens that they back their faith in
the city's future with their money but
can't something be done to induce out
siders to invest?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
New York Money Market.

New York, March -Close-MONEY-
Prime mercantile paper, 4d5A per cent;
sterling exchange heavy, with actual bus
mess in bankers bills at 81 S660GI4 1865 for
demand and at $4.S3szG "a. $3.50 for SO day
bills: posted rates, S4.S44 and 81 ST. COM
mercia1 bills, 81. S311G54 $685.
SILVER-Bar silver, 575sc; Mexican dol
lars, 45c.
B0NDS-Governmen bonds steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

1.-The Indomitable Automobile is Coun-
try Life in Americas characterization of
those vehicles in a remarkably illustrated
account of a stormy endurance run
through New York state where trains
and horses failed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
Spring HunaOrS

Come to most people and cause many
troubles,-pimples, boils and other
eruptions, besides loss of appetite,
that tired feeling, fits of biliousness,
indigestion and headache.
The sooner one gets rid of them the
better, and the way to get rid of them
and 10 build up the system that has
suffered from them is to take
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The government has decided to build
a cement manufacturing plant in Ari-
zora. 1t is time for the opponents of
"paternalism" to throw another fit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
FOUR ARE SENTENCED.
Judge Hazen- Disposes of Several
MINOR Offenders.

Four prisoners appeared before Judge
Hazen in the diseTict court this after
noon, pleaded guilty and received SEN
fences. Henry Lunt was sent to the
Reformatory at Hutchinson for escap-
ing from the Topeka State Industrial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
made the illustrations for the book and is
reproduced in color

BOOK End IS
reproduced in color.
PLANT an orchard, young mani" is the
burden of at least two chapters in Dr.
John W. Streeter's 1.-THE Fat of the
Land" The authors farming experiment
did not begin until he was So, but his
book shows what an orchard properly
cared for will come to in seven years
The author points out to young people
how an income will grow from an orchard
of few acres, and that the fun of doing
it will be more worth while than the in
come.
Prof. Frank Moore Colby, who has been
for some time past a regular contributor
to The Bookman, has Joined the editorial
STAFF of that magazine. Prof. Colby has
been the managing editor of the New In
ternational Encyclopedias, which is Just
year of The Bookman, and this accession
to the editorial staff with ether contem
plated changes bids fair TO make the year
most interesting one i'll the history of
the magdziae
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

An increase in the salary of the presi-
dent is urged on the ground that he now
receives much less than European
rulers. There is no doubt that he is
worth more than they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

Senator Fairbanks has made it
known that if he sees a vice presiden-
tial nomination coming down the pike
he will not step out of its way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The Frisco road is building thirty
four cars especially adapted for worlds
fair business. The cars are of a new
model, and it is claimed are so con-
structed that they cannot be telescoped
or shattered in a collision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

ton of running mate for Hearst.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

Samuel NJ. Staples died at Hoennes,
Colo. March 8. in his 10Th year of pneu-
monia and advanced age. He was for
number of years a resident of To-
peka, and an early settler in Usage
county. Kansas. The funeral was at
Trinidad, Colo, March 4. Samuel NJ
Staples was born at Weybridge, Addi-
son county, Vermont, August 26, 1928
In 1862 he was united in marriage with.
Phoebe Branson, at West Branch, Iowa.
Barclay, Kan, in November, 1899. Three
children survive them, two sons and
one daughter. Isaac B., of Hoehnes
Colo. James A, of TopekA and Anabel
of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dosage county pa
pers please copy.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The assessors will list private tele-
phone lines at actual value. The fol-
lowing will also be taken at actual
value: All interest on bonds of the
United States. all bonds and interest on
bonds of any state, county. district, or
municipality, all, other bonds not ex-
empt from taxation, stock in any com
pany or corporation, shares in national
banks, moneys, credits, less legal de-
auctions Average amount of merchant S
stock for preceding year, average
amount of merchants moneys and
credits for preceding year, average
amount of manufacturers stock Tor
preceding year.. average amount OF
preceding year, shares in any boat OF
vessel, tax sale certificates, judgments,
notes, mort cages
There will probably be some shaking
up in the tax situation this year. Last
wear J. C. Allison compelled the banks
TO give in corrected statements which
increased their taxable holdings Coun-
W Clerk Newman, acting under the
law authorizing county clerks to go
after people who escaped taxation,
started a movement which resulted in
the board of county commissioners ma
teriaIly increasing the valuations
placed on several large institutions
This year Allison, Newman and the
commissioners are all on the lookout
for tax dodgers and low assessments,
and a decided effort will be made to
have an equitable adjustment of valu-
alton. H M. Philips, city assessor
will instruct his deputy assessors to be
particularly dfligent and painstaking-
Pianos will receive especial attention.
County Clerk Newman will look after
them. For years the pianos owned
east of Kansas avenue and in Oakland
have been listed at a lower valuation
than the pianos owned In the residence
districts west of Kansas avenue" said
Newman today. 81 do not see that the
pianos east of Kansas avenue should
be listed at any less than those west
of Kansas avenue, and I shall see that
more just valuation IS made on
nianOs.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The car might try walking around
his chair for a change of luck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The funeral of Miss Nellie Karr was
held from the Kansas Avenue Metho-
dist church in North Topeka at p. m.
Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The funeral of Miss Anna Peterson,
who died irb Los Angeles, California,
will be held from her home at 912 West
Sixth street at 3 p. m. Wednesday,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The funeral of the Rev. A. A. Beatty
will be held from Grace Cathedral at
2:30 p. m. Tuesday. The body will be
taken to Lawrence where a second SER
vice will be held before the fnterment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

Robert Shackleton, who has just COM
pleted his new novel, 1.-The Great Adven-
& Co IS advance announcements of spring
books. has sailed to spend the summer in
a villa overlooking the bay Of Naples,
which he occupied with Mrs. Sh2ckleton
last summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

Hives are a terrible torment to the
little folks, and to some older ones.
Easily cured. Doan's Ointment never
fails. Instant relief. permanent cure
AT any drug store. so cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
Hoods JdrS0p0rilL0
and Pills

Forming in combination the Spring
Medicine par excellence, of unequalled
strength in purifying the blood as
shown by unequalled, radical and per-
manent cures Of
scrofuIa Salt Rheun
Scald Head BoiIs, PInnpIea
All Kinds Of HunnoF Psoriasis
Blood Poisoning Rheumatism
catarFh Dyspepsia, Etc
Accept no substitute, but be sure to
get Hoods, and get it today,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an eff
fectual remedy for coughs and colds. sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

A new collection of "Chimmie F'adden''
stories is shortly to appear, entitled
Sure The same old "Chimnnie Fad
den" (only perhaps a little shrewtier)
discusses in this volume the theater, COZ
lege football. the police force, motor cars.
the doings of society and the love affairs
of his old and true friend, the Duchess.
The book is to be published by Dodd,
Mead &. Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07

The title page of THE Deliverance, "
Ellen Glasgow's new story of Virginia,
typifies artistically something of the
spirit of the story. Under The title is a
picture of a young MIN bending o. er a
patch of growing tobacco and under the
Subtitle Is a curled tobacco leaf. The
page is by Frank e. Schoonover, who
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
CHECKING THE CUTWORMS.
It Is Task Requiring a Lot of Sys-
tematic Work and Consider
able Patience.

In all gardening operations more or
less trouble is experienced from the
attacks of cutworms. Sometimes a
good many plants are cut off in a
single night. This trouble is made
worse by the use of barnyard manure,
which is later found to have con-
tanned the eggs that Matched into cut
worms. The use of this manure cam
not be avoided very we'll At least it
is easier to fight the cutworms than
TO disarrange the methods of doing
the garden work. The worms gener.
ally feed near the top of the ground
and near the moisture line. In wet
weather they crawl about from one
plant to the other put during ordinary
weather their attacks are usually de-
livered under the surface of the soil.
One way of protecting the plants
against the attacks of these worms is
to wrap paper loosely about them at
setting time, having the paper reach
at least an inch below the ground
and two inches above. The worms do
not seem to know how to get under
or over such an obstruction. In a dry
time the wrapper should extend below
the moisture line in the soil, but be-
low that line the worms will not go.
Care should be taken to have it loose
enough about the stem to leave the
plant free to develop naturally. In
some cases gardeners that have many
plants to protect use tin protectors.
Strips of tin about eight inches long
and three inches wide are used. Be-
fore the tin is bent into a circle the
ends for about one inch are folded
back to form two hooks that clasp into
each other and make the joint that
holds the cylinder together. When
the danger from worms is past these
cylinders are taken off and stored
away to be used in subsequent years.
Farmers Review
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
DlSINFECT CABBAGE SEED.
Only Sure Way of Prevent
ing Black Rot.

Some cabbage growers believe that
cabbage black rot is transmitted by
means of the seed. This belief is based
upon their observation that plants
from one lot of seed often rot worse than
plants from another lot of seed of the
same variety under similar conditions of
soil and culture. In spite of such evil
| dence scientific investigators have
doubted that there could be any danger
in using infected seed. 1t seemed i'm
possible that the germs of the disease
could live over winter on the dry seed.
! However, this being a point of great
practical Importance, the New York Ag-
ricultural Experiment station decided to
! investigate it. A quantity of cabbage
| seed was wet with water containing the
germs of the disease, then dried and
stored in dry place. Once month the
seeds were tested for the presence of liv-
ing germs. These experiments are still
in progress; but al the end of ten months
some germs were found still alive. and
|, healthy cabbage plants inoculated with
these germs showed unmistakabie
symptoms of black rot in from two to
three weeks Thus it seems to be con-
clusively proven that the germs of
black rot can live on dry cabbage seed
for at least ten months, and perhaps
longer.
1t has also been proven that the
germs do actually occur on the seed
Black rot is a common disease in seed
cabbage fields in this country; also in
Holland and Denmark. AS a conse-
quence, much of our cabbage seed,
both the imported and home grown,
must be infested with black rot germs.
With these facts established, it is
plain that some method of seed disin-
lection should be employed as a safe
guard against this source of infection
1t is recommended that cabbage and
caulifiOwer seeds be soaked for 10 min
utes in one to 1000 solution of corrO-
sive sublimate and then spread out to
dry. By experiment it has been found
that this treatment will not injure the
termination of the seed The most
convenient method of preparing the
solution is to use the corrosive subli-
mate tablets sold by druggists for maxi
ing disinfecting solutions. One tablet,
costing one cent, is sufficient to make
a pint of solution, which is about the
quantity required to treat one pound of
cabbage seed.
1t is scarcely to be expected that the
above treatment will give complete
protection against black rot. The
benefit may be very small But as the
treatment costs nothing except a little
bother, and no other remedy being
known, it is certainly advisable to dis
infect the seed and thereby avoid nm
necessary risk.-Detroit Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
FOOD FACTS
What an NJ. D. Learned.

A prominent physician of Rome
Georgia, went through a food expert
ence which he makes public:
ut was my own experience that first
led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food
and l also know from having pre-
scribed it to convalescents and other
weak patients that the food is a Won
derful rebuilaer and restOrer of nerve
and brain tissue, as well as muscle. 1t
improves the digestion and sick pa
tients always gain just as did in
strength and weight very rapidly.
Il was in such a low state that |
had to give up my work entirely and
go to the mountains of this state !;
but two months there did not improve
me; in fact was not quite as well as
when l left home. My food absolutely
refused to sustain me and it became
plain that 1 must change: then I be-
gan to use Grapefruit food and in two
weeks l could walk a mile without
the least fatigue and in five weeks re-
turned to my home and practice, talk
ing up hard work again. Since that
time have felt as well and strong as
l ever did in my life.
CAS- a physician who seeks to help
eli sufferers l consider it a duty to
make these facts public" Name given
by Pos I'M Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Trial 30 days On Grape-Nuts when
the regular food does not seem 70 sus-
tain the body will work miracles
There's e reason
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tie book, 'The Road to Wellville."
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
Compact and Lucid.

The Hon. Tim" Tarsney, solicitor
of the city of Detroit and former mem
Der of congress from the Saginaw dis
trict of Michigan, tells a story of an
Irishman in his district, a liberal con-
tributor to the campaign fund and a
strong man financially, but with little
or no education. Some of the boys
thought it would tickle the old man
to propose him for chairman of a big
political meeting, but they had no idea
he would accept. He did accept, how
ever, and on mounting the platform
made the following speech:
"Gintlemin of the Convention
congratulate you most heartily upon
the choice Of yure chairman. You
kin rest ashured that as long as the
bulluk of the population constitutes
the masses of the people there will be
no danger from the privileged few
The convention is now ready for bust
ness. -Philadelphia Post
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
a Salad Plant from japan

The department of agriculture is try
Ing to introduce into this country a
japanese salad plant by the name of
udo as pleasant variation from per
petual lettuce. There are several ways
of serving this plant It's crisp
blanched stems are eaten with salt.
like celery; it is, however, more palat
able and free from the Objectionable
str:ngy fibers of that plant. They taste
somewhat like the midrib of a lettuce
leaf with slight suggestion of pine
havor- 1t nay also be boiled and
CerYed with sauce.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
Strong Language.

Fredericksburg, Ind, June 2o.-Rev.
Enoch 2. Stevens, of this place, uses strong
language in speaking of Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and he gives good reasons for what
he says
81 can't praise Dodd's Kidney, Pills, too
much,' says Mr.. Stevens. They have done
me so much good. [ was troubled with
my Kidneys so much that l had to get
up two or three times in the night, and
sometimes in the day when starting to
the waterhouse the water would come from
me before getting there. Two boxes of
Dodds Kidney Pills cured me entirely.
az have recommended Dodds Kidney
Pills to many people, and have never YET
heard of a failure. Dodd's Kidney Pills
are the things for Kidney Disease and
Rheumatism.
Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure the Kid
Pure blood means good health.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
a Missouri Munchausen.

There are some pretty fair Nimrods
In Missouri now, but a story which is
printed in an old history of Galloway
county shows that some of those Of
former days could make contemporary
sportsmen look like 80 cents either as
shots or as raconteurs, says the Kan
sas City Journal. Mr. Calvin Tate"
according to this history, says that
the wild pigeons were so plentiful one
summer that frequently when they
would alight on tree it would bend
down to the ground with their weight.
He went hunting one day, and seeing
q fine lot of pigeons in a tree he
hitched his horse to one of the limbs
and fired and killed 300 at one shot.
The rest flew away, and as soon as
the tree was relieved of their weight
Il Strengthened up, carrying his horse
with it, and the poor brute had TO
hang there until he could go home
and get an AK and cut the tree down.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
BITS ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES.

Austria-Hungary has the longes
frontier of any European country. 1t!
frontier line is 1896 miles long Grea
| Britain has 1857 miles of coast line.
The output of coal in both Francs
and Belgium last year was greater thar
ever before, that of France being 49,,
100000 tons and that of Belgium being
5000, 900 tons
China and Japan are prominently
the seaweed-eating nations of the
world. Among no other people are
seaweeds so extensively devoured and
relished as food substances.
Sawdust is converted into portable
fuel in Germany by very simple pro-
cess. 1t is heated under high steam
pressure until the resinous ingredients
become sticky, when it is pressed into
bricks.
The three important wheat states OF
Australia produce 35 900, 600 bushels
The yield to each acre in New South
Wales is 10.6 bushels. in. South Aus
tralia, 60 bushels, and in West Aus
tralia, 4.6 bushels.
Il have not much doubt that the
French in a few years will be able to
supply themselves with cotton. princi-
pally, if not wholly. from their west
African possessions, says United
States Consul Strickland. of Senegal.
An Italian syndicate, with a capital of
100000. will foster cotton growing in
east Africa.
Capital punishment is in vogue in
Japan, but no one-not even the exc
cutioner-witnesse the actual dispatch
of the condemned man, who is placed
in a kind of box and left to himself
as soon as the moose is adjusted. The
floor of the box falls when the signal
is given, and the murderer drops into
eternity unseen.
The law of France requiring all sea-
men to deposit three per cent. of their
wages with the government is applica-
BILE to fishermen, and this fund so col
lected is used to create a service PEN
sion, payable to all who have served
25 years under the French flag on the
seas. The amount received by pen
sioners varies according to the capacity
in which they have served. After the
death of a pensioner one-half is con-
tinued to the widow.
"They haven't been married long, have
they?" Il guess not. She still thinks her
husband looks like Napoleon. Chi
-cago Record-Herald.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
BY Elimination.

One day. as Pat halted at the top of
the river bank, a man, famous for his
Inquisitive mind, stopped and asked:
How long have you hauled water
for the village, my good MANI"
Tin years, sor."
"Ah! How many loads do you take
In day."
From tin to fifteen, sor"
"Ah. yes! Now l have a problem
for you. How much water at this rate
have you hauled in all, sir?"
The driver of the watering cart
jerked his thumb backward toward
the river and replied, "All the wather
yez don't see there now, sor."-Chris-
tian Advocate.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
RECEIVED COLD TREATMENT
Only Use Theatrical Manager Could
Make of Embryotic Melo-
drama.

George AIDE, at recent banquet. was
asked to speak on success, relates Success.
81 suppose that failure is more familiar
than success to ali of us" he said We
work away. Four things fail. The fifth
thing succeeds. The hardest workers have
the most failures, but then they have the
most successes, too.
One of my early failures was a melo-
drama that | travelled all the way from
Chicago to New York to sell to manager
This was in my youth, when l had conf
dence in myself. The manager returned
my melod~aIiia. lie said he didn't care
for it.
Il pointed out the merits in it which he
had overlooked. | proved that he would
make great mistake if he should not
accept this work. But he shook his head
Can't you use it at all?' | asked, des-
perately.
Well he said, L might grind it up
and use it for a snowstorm.'
A real grief needs no uniform-Ch Chicago
Tribune .
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24
Disappointment.

The young man with the swell suit, slen-
der cane, and jaunty air, was conscious
of being observed.
Out of the corner of his eve he saw
that the people on the other side of the
street We're looking at him as he saun-
tered along.
sign on letter box, Fresh Paint"
attracted his attention
He stopped and looked at it.
But ne did not touch it.
He turned, instead. and looked at the
people on the other side of the street
through his monocle
Then he resumed his sauntering.
Some men are too contrary to live
Chicago Tribune