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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

The Senate on Wednesday received
official notice of the determination of the
House of Representatives to present inn
parchment charges against Charles
Swayne, Federal judge in the Northern
District of Florida A committee was
appointed to prepare the details of the
proposed trial The Philippine govern
ment bill and the pure food bill were cor.
sidered. Mr.. Foraker presented a tariff
amendment to the Philippine bill. Mr..
Culberson CTexas) gave notice that he
would offer several amendments to the
bill, among them one striking out the
entire section guaranteeing interest on
the bonds of the proposed system of rail-
roads. In the House further action or
the impeachment proceedings against
Judge Charles Swayne was taken. From
the Committee on the Judiciary Mr.. Jen-
kins (Wis) reported back the resolutions
demanding an inquiry into the so-called
tteel trust. with the recommendation that
the resolution lie on the table. The rec
am,nendation was adopted. Mr. Baker
dem, of n. " moved an amendment
to reduce from $4,000 to $4,000 the APP
preparation for testing Goals and lignites.
A biz was passed amending the revised
statutes so as TO give foreign authors the
right to copyright in this country any
tine within twelve months after publica-
ton abroad; amending the revised stat
utes 50 rs to restrict patents on drugs
or medicines to the process Of manufac-
tura. and not the product.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

The Senate was not in session Friday.
A concusrent resolution providing for ad-
jouI-lment from Dec. p to Jan. f. 1905,
was adopted my the House. Considera-
ton of the legislative executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill was resumed in
committee of the whole the pending
question being a motion by Mr.. Hepburn,
of Iowa, to strike out the appropriation
for the civil service commission. This
was lost on viva voce vote. Mr.. Baker
of New York severely criticized the Blu
reau of Corporations, saying too much
money had been spent for specialists
while nothing had been accomplished to-
ward an investigation of the trusts. BY
a vote of 40 to 63 the House restored to
$1,000 the salary for stenographers for
House committees, which was cut Thurs
day to $4,000. The bill was then passed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

In the Senate Monday Mr.. Hepburn of
Idaho called up the pure food bill and
urged its passage, as did Messrs. Stewart
of Nevada and McCumber Of North Da-
kota. At , p. hi. the Philippine govern
ment bill was taken up as unfinished bust
ness. Mr.. Spooner attacked the provis-
ion for the guarantee of interest on bonds
of railroads by the Philippine commits
sion, and in response to a suggestion by
Mr.. Newlands Of Nevada that the Philip
pine government build the roads said he
did not favor the government ownership
of railroads. Mr. Lodge declared the
United States was not going into the
ownership of railroads. Fourteen pri-
vate pension bills were passed in commit
tee of the whole. Bills were passed
amending the law preventing the carry
ing of immoral literature into any State
or Territory so as to prevent the impor-
tation or expectation of such matter; au-
thorizing the construction of a bridge
across Thief River, Minnesota; permitting
the maintenance of certain dams and
bridges on the ST. Joseph River in Indi-
ana and Michigan; providing a penalty of
not to exceed 81 ZOO, or one years inn
prisonment, or both, for anyone who
knowingly pastures stock on a govern
ment forest reserve without proper per-
nit; transferring the forest reserves from
the interior to the Agricultural Depart
ment. MIR. Hill of Connecticut called up
his currency bill and spoke in support
of it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20

---- The weekly review of
phIc0n0 Chicago trade, published
- by r. G. Dunn & Co.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

From the Chicago News.]
No, Cordelia, the railroad tie is not a
four-in-hand.
The woman who marries for money
gets all she deserves.
Bachelors miss a lot of happiness
and escape a lot of misery.
The harder the job the easier it is for
a lazy man to dodge it.
Poets who write promissory notes are
the ones who are long remembered.
No matter how silly a girl is her
folks always expect her to marrywell
Some alleged self-made men are not
finished; they were too small for the
job.
A wise wife never reminds her hus-
band of the fool things he said when
counting her.
A woman may believe only half what
she hears, but she always hears twice
as much as a man.
No woman is ever as happy as a man
thinks she is or as miserable as she be-
lieves herself to be.
Fewer women commit suicide than
men, yet during the rush hours you
can see a lot of the managing to car
StraDS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
NEW SANTAF TRAIN.
VIII Make Fast Time to the
Coast.

Heavy increase in the travel to Cali
fornia has caused the Santa Fe rail-
road to add an entirely new fast daily
train to accommodate the traffic. The
train will run from Chicago to Los An
geles in II hours, or trifie faster than
the famous California Limited.
Westbound the train will be known as
No. and will leave Chicago at $40
through Kansas City at $3.50 o'clock each
evening and will pass through Topeka
at 1920 o'clock 1t will reach Albu-
querque at 10:40 the next night and Los
Angeles $50 o'clock in the morning.
The first train will leave Chicago on
the morning of December %. The speed
of the train may be better appreciated
when it is known that it will reach Los
Angeles ahead of train No. L, which
leave Chicago II hours earlier. Topeka
people may leave here at 1890 o'clock
in the evening and reach Los Angeles
ahead of the train which leaves at noon.
The new train improves the service
from a great many points. At Kansas
City and Chicago direct connections
will be made with all incoming trains.
At Newton there will be close connec-
ton with No. Is from Texas and Okla
hona points. Connections will also be
made at Topeka with night trains from
Junta connections will be received from
train No. sos from Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo.
Eastbound the train will be known as
No 10. The trains in both directions
will consist of standard and tourist
Pullman coaches, free chair cars and
smoking car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

ly bastard. Some One Under Cover of
Darkness Makes a Desperate Attempt
to Annihilate by Powder or Dynamite
the City Desiccating Plant. Damage
Perhaps S.
An Ell Dorado family has had a doc
tor but three times in 10 years. But
then none of the members play foot
ball.
Helen Gould is to give the Fort Scott
Y. NJ. C. A library $3.50 worth of books.
After all these ''plutocrats'' have their
uses.
Mrs. Peace, of Chanute, shot her hus-
band, attempted to burn the Jail and
carries a razor Yet her name doesn' t
indicate it.
One Wheaton girl wears three dia-
mond engagement rings while another
is using her hands to paint the back
yard fence.
Out of the dead past a Neosho county
citizen has reSurrected a story that IL
years ago his wife threw butcher
divorce.
Center young lady evidently didn't real
ize that American Beauties'' are worth
81 each when they gave her dainty
rose BOWL
An lola woman brought suit against
Mr.. Coffey, charging him with unlaw-
fully retaining her jewels. The judge,
however, decided on different grounds
which settled the broil.
Two hundred and thirty-flve persons
purchased tickets for the Worlds fair
this season from Lincoln. This is only
one town out of a thousand. It's easy
to see why Missouri went Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.

lfTOrn the Atch1SOn GLOBE
When a man feels sick in the night,
he also feels awfully lonesome.
An Atchison woman has so much
faith in the men that she even believes
in her own husband.
The Missourians are complaining of
the dry weather; they say their axes
are coming off the handles.
If a widower puts a new rail on his
fence to keep 1t from falling down,
some one starts the story that he is
preparing his home for bride.
When a woman reads of a horse
"champing restively on its Bit" she
doesn't know exactly what it means
but she feels that she often does it.
An Atchison man has a. brother-in-
law who gets $28 a week, and his wife
talks about him more than she talks
about her pastor.
Coolidge has a billiard hall which re-
mains open until o'clock at night, and
terprise says the town is wide open"
1t seems very hard for a naturally
good person to get credit. An Atchison
baby never cries and its mother Is wor-
ried and fears it has not sense enough
An old-fashioned woman was talking
today about something surprisingly
foolish an acquaintance had done, and
said: isn't that a note for your
A lot of men were talking of people
who had good memories. Bryan Smith
was robbed once, and they say that he
remembered the numbers on the bills
stolen.
1t seems that the good are also sur
rounded with dangers. A man at Prairie
View was recently ringing the church
bell, when the clapper fell, and nearly
killed him.
Lou Dockstader said, in an interview
in Kansas City yesterday, that the min
streI business was in it's infancy. Still
some of its jokes have pretty long, gray
WhiSkerS.
In passing along the streets you often
here this expression used by man
talking to a companion: He ought to
have better sense" We all ought 30
have better sense.
A woman is never ready on time 20
go anywhere with her husband while
he lives, but she is always ready on
time for his funeral, thanks to the as
sistance of the neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

that week spots were ignored and a sit
uation created where only a shock of
some sort was needed to force whole
sale liquidation This shock came in
the form of an attack upon Amalgama-
ted Copper, which promptly exposed the
weakened condition of the whole mar
ket. Stocks, it was then seen, had pass
ed from strong into weak hands. The
big men who bought freely at the low
prices of 1903 had disposed very largely
of their holdings, and when the crash
came there was little or no support
from this quarter. Liquidation of over
bought accounts became Imperative,
and prices We're so high that no sub
stantial buyers could be found except at
such heavy declines as exhausted weak
margins and frightened timid holders
out of their senses. The decline was,
of course. accompanied by the usual
supply of unsettling rumors and inten-
sified by the trading element, who al
ways push a movement in either direc-
ton to the utmost"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
GLEASON,,DISHEARTENED
He VIII Give No Show Until Tomorrow
Evening.

Professor o. r. Gleason will not give
a performance at the Auditorium to-
night. The crowds have been embar-
rassingly small all week, and after Civ
ing about two-thirds' of a performance
last night, he announced that he would
stop until Friday night. He wanted to
give back tickets to those who attend
ed last night, but the Commercial club
vetoed his plan.
I Gleason hopes to get out a monster
crowd tomorrow evening. If he does
not, he may quit the town without a
Saturday performance. According to
his contract with the Commercial club
he was to give seven shows this week,
including a Saturday matinee.
Altogether not 1000 people have at
tended the shows this week in the three
nights that they have been put on. At
Kansas City, Gleason drew 1900 people
in one night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
A Rolling Stone.

Mr.. J. Albert Husey, of Chicago, at
the Hotel Lexington, smiled when he
was asked where his personal home
was.
everywhere" he said. ct am q
bachelor on the road all the time,
fond of the variety that is the philoso-
ply of happiness and never content to
live in one place more than a year. AS
a rule when 1 take my six weeks vaca-
ton in the summer I change my resi-
dence. 1t broadens my ideas without
interfering in any way with business.
Meeting so many people. seeing so
many different social conditions, be-
coming acquainted with so many diff
ferent views of life. learn to know
what is worth knowing and to pursue
that knowledge. So that my first
lesson is one of practical value, and
when 1 consider the great wealth and
satisfaction accumulated wealth
that cannot rust, lose itself in specula-
ton or be stolen-I can afford to
laugh at the saying that "A rolling
stones gathers no moss For the right
man, a rolling life is a happy one; for
the vast majority of men, domesticity
and a convenient rut answer so much
better that never try to convert any
body to my way of living. ''-Baltimore
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
GROWING TRADE WITH CHINA.

Commerce between the United States
and China in the ten months ending
with October, 1904, shows a larger total
both in imports and exports, than in
the corresponding months of any earlier
year. The October reports issued by the
department of commerce and labor
through it's bureau of statistics show
the total imports into the United States
from China during the ten months end
ing with October, 1904, at $23, 1913, 324.
which exceeds by more than 100000
the largest total in the corresponding
period of any earlier year; and the ex-
ports from the United States to China
In the ten months ending with October,
1904, $40, 557, 1874, which exceeds by about
one-half million dollars the largest total
in the corresponding period of any
earlier year. This is in face of the fact
that trade with China. particularly as
relates to exports to that country, has
been materially reduced during the past
one or two years, due presumably to
the hostilities in progress in that part
of the world.
The fact that the figures for the ten
months ending with October. 1904, show
a larger total than those for the CORE
spending ten months of 1902. the period
at which the fiscal year figures showed
their largest total, suggests very
rapid increase in our exports to China
in the few months subsequent to the
termination of the last fiscal year, and
this suggestion is sustained by the fig
ures of our exports to China during re-
cent months, as shown by the reports
of the bureau of statistics.
This rapid increase in our exporta-
lions to China in the last few months
seems to strengthen the belief express
ed during the last year that the fall in
exports to that country was temporary
and due to the special conditions pre-
vailing in that section of the world, and
especially in the northern part of China,
which had been looked upon as the final
destination of a large part of the mer-
chandise from the United States, and
especially cotton goods. The latest fig
ures of the bureau of statistics show
that the exports of cotton goods to
China have greatly increased in recent
months.
In mineral oil the increase is still
greater, the exports from the United
States in the ten months ending with
October, 1904, being SEATS, $685. against
81, 1884, 05S in the corresponding months of
1908, and 81 435, 472 in the corresponding
months of 1902.
On the import side the figures for the
ten months show an increase of about
three million dollars as compared with
the corresponding months of the pre-
ceding year, and stand about three mil
lions above the highest figure of any
ten months period of earlier years. This
increase occurs chiefly in raw silk, of
which the total value imported from
China in the ten months ending with
October, 1904, was $S,113, 7OS, against
S6,472,5S1 in the corresponding months
of last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
DIR. PARKHURsT WINS.
He VIII Remain as Editor of Zion's
Herald.

Boston, Dec 15.-By official action
of the Boston Wesleyan association,
which owns and controls lions Her
aid, the organ of the Methodist Epis-
copal church in New England, the
contest which has been waged against
continuance of Rev. Charles Park
hurst in the position OF edltor, mas
been ended with a victory for DIR.
Parkhurst. By a unanimous vote the
association at its annual meeting re-
fused to consider his resignation,
which was offered at that time. and
confirmed the editor in his post.
The opposition to DR.. Parkhurst
arose from verdict of $4,000 entered
against him and the Wesleyan associa-
ton Jointly last February in a suit
for libel brought by DIR. Edwin A.
Schell, a western clergyman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
NO EXTRA SESSION.

TF'rom the Chicago Inter-Ocean.1
| The decision of the president not to
call an extra session of congress next
spring for revision of the tariff is in ac-
cordance with the conservative business
sentiment of the country. The definite
announcement that such a session VIII
not be called is in the interest of set
tied business conditions.
Tariff revision, as this newspaper has
contended from the first, is a question
TO be discussed with the interests of the
whole country in mind, and to be acted
upon with elaboration. 1t is a question
to be opened not to unsettle business.
but to settle it on lines of material i'm
provement.
No hasty action in changing our tariff
laws has ever been satisfactory. Even
to the promoters of agitation in favor
of revision of the Wilson bill as it was
enacted into law was far from satisfac-
tory to the man who introduced it or to
the president who urged tariff revision.
1t represented compromise arrived at
after stormy discussion of conflicting
interests, and the effect of the make
shift legislation was to unsettle bust
ness and destroy confidence.
There is no reason why any Republi-
can should strive to create the impress
sion tnaI the SaIety Oh the counuy oo-
mands the immediate revision of our
existing tariff laws. Neither is there
any reason why the most hidebound
protectionist should regard a PROPOSE
ton to change the Dingley schedules as
an attack on the protective system.
The Dingley act was not satisfactory
to many protectionists, but it was ac-
cepted as the best legislation that could
be secured at the time. Changes for the
better cannot be secured now or in the
future by clamorcus agitation or hys-
terical action. Therefore the president
has done well to set at rest all specula-
ton as to an extra session next spring
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
BURNED BY GASOLINE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myers Have a Very Mar
row Escape.

Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Myers, who live
at the southeast corner of Eighth and
Chestnut streets, were badly burned in
a gasoline stove fire this morning
burned off of. Mr.. Myers right hand,
and some of the fingers on his left
hand were burned. Mrs. Myers right
hand was also somewhat burned, and
she also sustained burns on the face.
ears and neck. Part of her hair was
burned off.
The trouble started in a pantry ad-
joining the kitchen. There was a
small two-burner gasoline stove of
cheap pattern on a table. The tank
of the stove had just been filled, and
the stove was lighted. Mr.. Myers took
the stove off the table, with the inten-
ton of setting it on the floor in the
kitchen so that a wash boiler might
be placed on it. In doing so, one leg
of the stove caught in some way, and
gasoline stopped out of the top of the
tank, and drenched Mr.. Myers hands.
This gasoline at once took fire, and as
the gasoline had spattered all around
the pantry, that room was quickly en-
veloped in fire. Mr.. Myers started to-
ward the kitchen door. with the stove
in his hands, his purpose being to
throw it out. AS he did so. he collided
with his wife, who was trying to open
the door for him. Gasoline was thus
spilled over Mrs. Myers head, and in
stantly took fire. In trying to put out
the fame with her hand. the hand
was burned.
G. E. Baird. a hoseman at fire de-
partment headquarters. lives near the
Myers house, and happened to be
passing by. He say that the house
seemed to be afire. and started to turn
in an alarm. But before he could do
so, Mr.. Myers called him back with the
information that he had the fire under
control The curtains, carpet and
some of the woodwork in the pantry
was burned but the loss was trif1ing.
The most serious burn was on Mr..
Myers right hand, which according to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
JAYHAWKH lots

Burns wants to be made third class
city.
a Cambridge hunter says he has shot
a white quail.
Cake walks have been resurrected in
Marion county.
In a vote for waterworks at La Harpe
the town went dry.
Lincoln is to have an experience So
cial. Most people over Is need no ex-
perience in that line.
Clay Center patrons of the electric
light company are to have weeks free
use of the wires for a Christmas gift.
The Coffeyville Record has a head
writer with an Imagination. Note the
following: Daring Deed of a Coward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
ATHLETIC MONEY.
Nearly $500 Raised at Washburn This
Morning.

At a meeting of Wasburn college stu
dents held this morning at the Wash
burn chapel, the sum of $3.50 was raised
to apply on the athletic debt of the col
lege 1t is expected that this sum will
be increased to about $500 among the
students. Prof. Town has undertaken
the job of raising half of the athletic
debt among the students, while Man
ager Frank Leach raises the other half
by other methods.
The result of the 10 per cent rebate
to the association offered by certain
merchants Wednesday, as a benefit to
the athletic associa ton, is not yet
known. About $500 in purchase slips
were deposited in the boxes in the
stores, but as many people did not know
of the fact that these boxes were placed
there, the majority of the slips will
proba bly, be sent to S. W. Presley, the
treasurer. through the mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

New York Evening Post: There is
good reason for believing the report
from Toxic, that the besiegers of Port
Arthur having achieved their prime
object-the destruction of the Russian
f1eet-wilI now proceed more carefully
and with greater regard for their lives.
The similarity between the sieges of Port
Arthur and Santiago is now apparent
In both cases a land attack was resort
ed to in order to bring about the destruc-
ton of the fleet within the harbor
Cervera chose to make a dash for lib
erty, where the Russians were appar-
emily content to see their ships sunk at
their anchorages. The Spanish cruisers
were at least totally destroyed; whether
the Russian vessels are similarly be-
yond hope of repair remains to be SEEN
Measured by the number OF lives it has
cost the enemy, the Port Arthur fleet
has been a good investment. Fully for
ty thousand men-a large army CORPS
must have persisted in the attempt to
get at the vessels which Togo, with all
his daring, could not reach because of
torpedoes and coast defenses. 1t mat
tiers, now, very little when Port Arthur
falls, for Admiral Togo is free to with
draw all his ships except a few light
vessels to keep out blockade runners
He can now prepare and repair in ex-
pectation of the Baltic fleet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.l

IT IOiII tIIS 4NCF' I u II 1 07H7'I
Temptation calls on you so often that
your terms with it soon become very
intimate.
If a woman had a mind it wouldn't
be of any use to her because it is not
a thing she could wear.
It's awful tiresome to have to be as
bad as you feel you ought, to live up to
your reputation.
People hardly ever have bad enough
tempers to get in a rage with the ones
that deserve it-themselves.
If a man can't lose his money at the
race track or in the stock market. he
can always have recourse to marriage.