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ing had been the scene Of many a CORY
pugilistic combat and he said: II no.
tice something familiar about the sur
roundings here and it offers a sugges-
ton. l am satisfied that tomorrow.
after the referee has given his decision,
that capable citizen and loyal Repub-
lican, E. A. Hayes, and the entire Re
publican ticket Of the district will be
declared the victors in this great con-
test" Cheers greeted this remark.
Continuing Mr.. Shortridge said:
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NO TIME FOR ABUSE.

I have not spent my time abusing my oppo-
nents. but in appealing to the sober sense Of
my fellow men 10 what they should do to
uphold the great principles of the Republican
party and continue the of prosperity we
have known during the years Of Republican
administra tion.
Turning a moment from national to local
questions, l wish to tell you Of condition
that has attracted my attention. / notice that
at the iron works of this city there are no keels
Of new war vessels being laid. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that new ships constantly be-
ing built by the Government il is evident that
San Francisco is being neglected in the award
of the contracts. Why is this? The reason is
that during the last session cf Congress San
Francisco was represented by men not in SYM
had no Republican Congressman to work for
its interests and hence they suffered Get one
big ship TO build here and il means that most
Of her cost will 60 into the hands of the city s
workmen- / will promise you that if am
elected I will do my best TO see that San Fran
cisco gets one big ship, If not two or three, to
build
These remarks of Mr.. Hayes oc-
casioned prolonged applause. In con-
clusion the speaker made an exhaustive
analysis of the tariff question and then
pledged himself TO work tirelessly,
should he be elected, not only for Chi
nese exclusion but to stay the tide OF
japanese emigration into the United
States.
Another song from the quartet enter
tanned the audience and then Mr.
Shortridge was introduced. Mr.. Short
ridge had taken note of the fact that
the stump from which he was speak
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BIG RALLY IN EUREKA.
Monster Meeting Closes Campaign In
the Northern City.

EUREKA. Nov. THE Republican
campaign was brought to close to-
night with a monster rally at Occi-
dental Pavilion. The speakers were
Congressman j. N. Gillett, Senator
Thomas H. Selvage and Assemblyman
George T. Rolley. The meeting was well
attended and was a fitting close to the
campaign. 1t is estimated that Hum
boldt County will give Roosevelt and
the Republican ticket from 5000 to $500
plurality.
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ONE OF MANY SCHEMES.
National Republican Committee Gives
Word of Warming.

General George Stone. chairman of
the, Republican State Committee of
California, has just received the fol-
lowing letter from the National Com
mittee of the party:
CHICAGO. Ill., Nov. 1, 1904.
George Stone,
Palace Hotel San Francisco. Call
My Dear Sir: This committee has just been
advised of effort in certain parts OF the
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HARD FIGHT IN NEVADA.
Victory for Republicans Probable in
Sagebrush State.

RENO. Nov. THE hardest fought
campaign in the history Of Nevada
closed tonight with speaking in near
ly every precinct in the State. The
Republicans have for the first time in
ten years more than an even chance Of
winning the whole State ticket, while
the Democratic leaders admit that
Roosevelt will carry the State. The
election of United States Senator and
a Congressman is in doubt with both
sides claiming that they will win.
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give the Forty second District the best
representation it has ever had and will
probably be the leader of the San
Francisco delegation.
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KNIGHT AT STOCKTON.
Republican Orator Tells Voters OF
Their Duty

STOCKTON, Nov. George A.
Knight closed the campaign in Stock
ton tonight with the largest and most
enthusiastic meeting ever held here. He
held the large audience to the close
telling the Republicans to do their
duty at the polls. He said the cleo
ton OF Roosevelt is certain and urged
Californians to make the majority the
largest ever given in the State.
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THIRTY-sIxTH DISTRICT.

OIIINII
Final Appeal to the Men Who Toll
A large gathering of the voters of
the Thirty-sixth Assembly District
met at Harmony hall, Mission and
Erie streets. last night to pledge their
votes to the nominees of the Union
Labor party. p. F. Roller called the
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A mans self-resDect Is often pune
tured by the suspicious Of his neigh
bors.
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Close Campaign With Rousing
Rally at WOOdWard'S Pavilion.

While it is true that l have been wantonly
assailed during this campaign. 1 have full con-
fdence in submitting my candidacy to the peO
pie that they win rise above the petty abuses
that have been heaped upon me and will vote
5 men, unswerVed by charges against
which they know TO be false. l know that
the people do believe that 1 such
monster that l would say thing and do
. another and 1 know they will accept as false
he hat iS nv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
A HIDDEN TORTURER.
DEATH PREFERABLE TO THE AGONY
BORNE BY Mr.. COYLE.
Three Years of ExcrucIating Neuralgia
Terminated by Six Boxes of
DIR. Williams Pink Pills.

The pity of the modern world has al
ways been stirred by tales of the suffer-
ings of the wretched victims in the tor
ture chambers once connected with
courts of justice. The very sight of a
gruesome collection of pincers. tongs,
thumbscrews and racks, used ages ago,
awes curious spectators and makes
them tremble with. living horror. While
such crueIties survive now only among
savage races. men still suffer from
agonies of disease so intense that they
can find no terms fit to describe them
save words like torture and rack"
which call up wildly the barbarities Of
the outgrown past. The unhappy vic
Tins sometimes, as In the case which
follows, faint with the exhaustion of in
tense pain, and even long for death to
hasten and end sufferings which they
have appealed so long in vain to men
to relieve. All help that comes from
drugs that deaden pain for a brief sea-
son is only mockery, for the short re-
spites are always followed by more ter
rible agony.
The story of James B. Coy1e, a mill
operative, residing at No Pond street,
Amesbury, Mass, is q striking recent
case In illustration. During the past
three years." said Mr.. Coyle to a re-
porter, "I was troubled with neuralgia
in the head. At times the pains were
almost unbearable and my sufferings
were such that death would have been
welcome as a relief. The pains began
right over my eyes and shot upward
through my head. They were so ex-
cruciating that they would almost make
me faint dead away from exhaustion.
II consulted several physicians but,
while they all diagnosed my case as
neuralgia and prescribed for that, they
gave me only temporary relief. Then
took number of advertised neuralgia
cures with no better result. About four
months ago a friend told me about DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and
I decided to try a box, although then I
had but little faith in them, because I
had taken so many remedies without
benefit. After I had used one box
noticed that the pains were less fire.
quent and intense than before. So I
took a second box with additional i'm
provement. After I had taken six
boxes my neuralgia was entirely cured,
and for two months I have been free
from pain. I have sound restful sleep
at night and no feeling Of 1anguor dur
ing the day. I bless the day when /
began to use DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
Cures equally remarkable for their
completeness and permanence have also
been wrought by these pills in the case
of locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis,
st. VituS' dance, Eciatica, nervous head
ache, after effects of the grip, palpita-
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plexions and all forms of weakness in
either male or female. Dr. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent direct from
Dr. williams Medicine Co, Schenectady,
N. Y, postpaid. on receipt of price, fifty
Genes per box; six boxes 70 two dollars
and a half. Do not be deceived into
taking a substitute. Nothing else has
been found equally good.
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THE ~ AN VINO
TELLS WHAT'S
COMING"

determined to be pleased. and SO it is
not hard to please them"
Have you ever been so annoyed by
an audience that you had to rebuke it p
mo. If people insist on trying to
drown my voice I simply drop into
confidential key. The change never
fails of effect. You can shout without
attracting attention, but a whisper al
ways rivets it."
What particular kind of auditor an
noys or distracts you the most?"
Strangely enough, the most distract
ing auditors we have had since the
opening of our season in 'Ranson'S Fol-
ly' at the Hudson theater were two deaf
and dumb men who occupied front row
seats in the orchestra the other night.
They were digitally voluble. At first
the constant swapping of fingers was
annoying. Then one by one we sue
cumbed to the fascination of watching
the gesticulations, and the company
literally played every scene at them the
entire evening. Toward the close Of the
play I think we were talking in sign
language, for I never saw so many
actors make SO many gestures in my
life.
1.-The deaf man is a trial because the
moment you catch sight of one with
his hand behind his ear you forget that
the other !, 499 are in full possession of
their sense of hearing and you restrain
yourself with difficulty from believing
ing
"And are deaf and dumb people the
only kind an actor breads to see in
the audience%"
by no means. The nuisances make
quite a list. There is the actor who
watches US from an orchestra chair
with an expression that says palmer
than words, And you call that actingI'
Then there is the critic who is tired
recognizing old ideas in the new play.
Also the an who tells his neighbor
just what's coming. And I must not
forget the man who never cracks
smile and stares at you as though to
say, 'Amuse me if you dare OF course,
the blase youth in the stage box is ever
with US. We get used to him.
do children annoy you?"
ST realize that I am somewhat old
fashioned in my ideas when I say that
after eight o'clock at night the nursery
rather than the theater appeals to me
as the proper place for embryo matt
nee girls.
Last Monday night a little girl in
one of the boxes was much attracted
by the new service uniforms which we
wear in the second act. They are
bravely ornamented with gilt braid. AS
I stood in the wings I observed this
tender sprig of femininity gazing at the
uniforms worn by Mr.. Sterling and Mr..
Coulter which are similar to my own.
I felt distinctly uneasy as made my
entrance and as reached the footlightS
she jumped up, clapped her hands and
calculated in a childish treble audi
bic in all parts of the house:
'Oh, mamma! Mamma! There's
another bellboy!'"
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Robert Edeson Tells of the
Troubles of all Actor.
Describes the Auditors Whose
Actions Annoy the Players.
LIKES WOMEN THE BEST
They Are Always Ready to APP
plaud and Cry.
Deaf and Dumb People and
Children Annoying.

eff we could always have audiences
of women only. what a happy lot
would be the actorsr'
So gDake Robert Edeson, who played
In Topeka as the star in Soldiers of
Fortune" in an interview in New York.
Women. he claims. make better audit
ors than men. because they pay closer
attention to the stage and enthuse more
readily.
But all audiences interest the play
ers," continued Mr.. Edeson. THE de-
sire to control their emotions, to sway
a thousand people, to cause them to
forget the lights and the painted
scenery, to convince them for a moment
that we are real men and women, fas-
cinates US because of it's suggestion of
power.
1T would be an easier task If we had
to please one auditor only, but in a well
filled theater there are one thousand
five hundred or two thousand persons,
no two of them alike in temperament,
tastes or emotions, representative of
widely different spheres in life; yet the
authors lines must be clearly compre-
hended by each and every individual
They must cry or laugh together, and
we must force the tired men of business
or the blase youth in the stage box to
the same point OF enthusiasm as the
gallery boy, who is eager to find ex-
element and opportunity for demon
strative applause"
DO audiences vary on different
nights of the week in New York?'' he
was asked. DO they differ at all on
Thursday nights from what they are on
Monday nights. say?"
oh decidedly, after a play has once
got to running. Take it along about
the third or fourth week. Then on
Mondays we have out of town folk.
They have been shopping all day and
are prone to be tired and go to sleep
between the acts, SO have heard. We
have also the young man and his girl,
the visit to the play having been sug-
gested after a pleasant Sunday even
ing. Its memory is often preferred to
the entertainment. And also, very
much also, the men and women re-
morseful after a Sunday dissipation.
Tuesday brings the drummers and
their customers. all of them rather
more interested in the intermissions
than the play. Among them numerous
examples Of the man who explains the
plot and reveals all its surprises to the
intense annoyance of those about him.
"Wednesday night brings New York
people with guests and relatives from
Orange and Brooklyn with a dash of
Harlem; a very congenial crowd that
enjoys our efforts.
The chaperon and buds with a few
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chiefly in the matter of salary. Some
of these ornamental beauties received
as much as $50 a week. and refused to
leave New York at any price.
The expense to the manager was not
limited by the show girls salary. She
had to have beautiful clothes.
These cost sometimes $500 and $500.
When it came to dressing score OF
these young women. the expense of a
production was considerably increased
The disappearance Of the show girl
will not be due to her lack of power to
charm so much as to her costliness.
For half what it cost to dress her up
like a society debutante at her first
ball, she could be effectively rugged up
in fancy costume or several of them.
Then it would not cost $50 a week to
engage girls who could wear these older
fashioned costumes well.
Various other causes have led to the
downfall of the show girl. That she is
too much of an expense, she and her
clothes, is the principal cause. Then
there is a belief among the wise persons
who concern themselves with such i'm
portant matters as the dress of chorus
girls that the time has come for re-
turn to tights and other features of
former burlesque and musical farce cos
tuning.
Girls who are able to wear this sort
of thing and look just as handsome as
anybody" said a manager the other day.
ARE to be had for salaries that rarely
exceed $40 a week.
These costumes are cheaper than the
ruinous dresses which had to be bought
when the costumes were modern and up
to date. The intention to abolish the
show girl is a part Of the decision of
managers to invest less in production
than they have been doing.
Every foreign city but London stares
in establishment at the immense sums
invested in productions in this country
1t has become customary to look for on
portunities to spend, not merely to do
what is necessary to give a piece a
sarT1ta s1,1,, ~ - eco =, -. a.ia
gown that cost $275 is one Of the stage
luxuries that is certainly destined to
disaDnear'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
GROWING YOUNGER.
Mrs. Gilbert Regan Scheme When
She Celebrated 75th Birthday.

On the occasion of Mrs. Gilbert's
eighty-third birthday she was in re-
ceipt of many letters and kilograms of
congratulations. The newspapers de-
voted much space to praise of the &C
tress, and every one united in trying to
make it a joyous occasion. Mrs. Gill
bert undertook to thank all for their
many expressions of kindness. Here is
a copy of letter sent to one of the
newspapers which is characteristic of
the Oldest actress on the American
stage:
A note from Mrs. Gilbert:
My Dear Mr.. Editor:
Thank you for your kindly reference
to my eighty-third birthday in this
mornings paper. 1t was well meant,
but the figures are not quite right. 1t
is true that I was rs years old eight
years ago, but at that time I began
to grow younger every day, SO really
you should subtract the elapsed years
from the total instead of adding them.
That makes me only so, don't you see?
Cordially yours,
MRS. G. H. GILBERT.
P. s., Can't you put in something
nice like the following:
I'VE gladly make the correction and
are surprised at our own error, for we
had observed the fact of Mrs. Gilbert s
growing youth ourselves. Our chief
surprise is to find that it was only sew
en- years ago that she began a new
scheme. She had seemed to US to be
growing younger every year for the last
twenty"
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SOME LINES AND JOKES.
Lew Dockstader Delivers Himself on
Trusta and Magnates.


II have been studying up this trust
question" said Lew Dockstader in the
Victoria theater, New York, land Rock
efellow is the answer. Everything has
gone into trusts Except me, and the
only reason I haven't is that I can't
be trusted. I rolled into town on Mr..
Rockefellow's train, ate some of Mr..
Rockefellow's beefsteak for dinner, and
wouldn't be surprised tomorrow
morning il some one would make me
pay in advance for breathing Mr.. Rock
efellow's air. Dreamed about the fool
thing last night. too Thought I had
slipped this mortal coil and was floating
off the earth-Mr. Rockefellow's earth
and after a while I reached the good
place-AIr. Rockefellow's good place 1
went up to the gate, but it was closed;
so I hunted round for a cloud that
could stand on and look over the gate,
and there were Rockefellow, Harper,
Morgan, Gates, Hin and Schwab. Rock
efellow was trying to make Gates take
the Golden Stairs, and Hill was claim
ing that they belonged to his trans
If, and two of his Sunday school class
were rigging up a derrick to bore for
oil. says to myself: This is no place
for you, Louie. You wouldn't have a
pinfeather on your wings two minutes
after you got in there so I took the
incline 10 the other place. Got pretty
cold walking down. It was a long trip
and rather windy. I knocked on the
iron door and they let me in. Every
body was standing around with listers
and eRrmuffs on. recognized several
people, but I win not mention any
names right here Wen. as said be-
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chaps about town as a natural conse-
quence seem to select Thursdays, a
night that seems equally popular with
elderly and eminently respectable the
alter parties who converse OF other
actors and palmy days and are apt to
be only mildly enthusiastic.
Friday is society night. Converse
ton in boxes and everywhere else. Still
they are rather tolerant of the play
when it interrupts.
And how about the Saturday matt
nee?"
Turn on your exclamation points.
Bless 'em-we all say bless 'em. They
come to be thrilled, to shed tears and
applaud until their gloves are ripped
What matter If they have our ages,
marriages and histories all mixed up?
There's life and youth in them. and cur
tain calls and violets for the women
On Saturday night we get the strong.
substantial audience that have been
waiting all the week to go to the show
They are a little tired, but they come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
Life
Long Sick and Merry.
Gus Headaches.
DIR. Miles Anti=Pain
Pills Cured Me.
They Gave Me Instant
Relief.

The common affection of all mankind is
headache. From it few are entirely free.
DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills will cure and in
most instances prevent head ache of any kind
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car-riding, dancing, if you are subject to
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THE WEEKLY GRIsT.
Stories Told by Stage Folk Off the
Stage.

All actors, after they have reached a
certain degree of popularity, are poster
ed by bores. not only of the female va
riety but of the male as well, and the
latter are by far the worse. Robert Hill
lard tells an Entertaining story of how
he got rid of one a few years ago, hav-
ing called Otis Harlan to his aid. He
was a harmless young chap" says Mr..
Hilliard, who had been following me
around the country-at least, 1 thought
it was Until I got good and tired of
him. I decided that heroic methods
must be adopted.
News with Sporting Life He was
hanging aroud the hotel, bothering me
with questions. 1t was hot, and I was
so dead sick of seeing him that I made
up my mind to try a little ruse to get
him away. I will say here that a wait
in a performance-pause you know;
wait to go on. etc-is called a stage
wait
'' 'Herbie,' said I. and he came run
ming up eagerly. 7 have just received
bad news. we left our stage wait over
at Norfolk. OF course you know we
can't go on tonight without it, and the
manager can't be found. If you
Certainly. Mr.. I1illiard.' SAID he, I'd
be glad to. I'll go right away
All right, my boy; but wait a min
ute And I scrawled a note to Harlan
who was following US in one of Charley
Hoyt's plays. Please give unto bearer
stage Walt-Wall IL neaVy, so ne can't
get back Treat him kindly. I knew
his mah-theh. Yours, etc.
well, the boy went-across by boat
fifteen miles, then by trolley. Harlan
was on in a minute. He told the lad
that he was sorry to hear of such
serious accident; he would go down in
the basement of the house and get it at
once. In few moments he appeared
with a tremendous package, heavier
than a ton of lead. He handed it over
fn H6rhia ny6r1v tNInvV
it, said he; it is very fragile and easily
disarranged; be very careful of it, my
boy Well the poor lad took 1.-THE
was a pluclzy fool-and got aboard the
in his lap all the way 1t was very
daintily done up in paper and crimson
twines He walked all the way from
the boat to the theater with it Just