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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-18
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

An automobile to rent is one of the
city ways" of Colby.
An Abilene orchard is bearing its
second crop of apples
A prosperous bottle factory at Ne
odesha is the Doolittle plant
Natural gas and a flower parade the
same day at Howard nearly drove the
town frantic
The Garden City Floral club has got
ten far enough along to give a chrys-
anthemum show.
A Scott City cook has resigned to be-
come a pumpman. A clear case OF
bread and water.
In a Rice county church rattle. of
course it was woman without COW
that drew the calf.
puppies along with her flock. They all
drink from the same canteen.
Mistaking his thumb nail for
single nail has given a Randall car
penter a well earned vacation.
Mrs. Nations feats of heroism at
Wichita have been excelled by a young
girl who carried out a blazing stove.
A Reno county man is sleeping out
of doors for his bodily ills. What his
disease is the local paper fails to
state.
A rubber tired wheel has reached
Howard and several of the citizens in
sist that the owner ring bell at the
crossings.
A church war has started at FL Do
RADIO. One sister accused another of
not putting eggs or sugar in cakes in
tended for religious socials.
An Armourdale man who is learning
to play three instruments asked his
neighbor what he thought of his pro-
gress. II am not up on music but
down on it," was the reply.
A Jennings young mans idea of a
good joke was to drop a caterpillar
down the inside of girls collar just
to hear her scream. Instead she put
him out in one round with broom
ok
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DIVORCE QUESTION ENDED.
Episcopal Convention Finally Dis
poses of the Subject.

Boston, Oct. 18-A resolution was
reported by the committee on the
state of the church at the Episcopal
convention recommending the appoint
ment of joint committee to petition
state Legislatures to considered the
great cause of divorce and to reduce
the statutory grounds on which di-
vorce Is granted
The resolution excepted states which
permit no divorce or divorce for
adultery only. After a short discus
sion 1t was voted to refer the matter
to the Observation-Disclosures committee
on the uniformity of marriage and di-
vorce. This removes the resolution
from further action by the present
convention.
The report of the joint committee
on provinces was presented and placed
on the calendar. The report contained
the following:
"Seven races, differing widely from
each other in character and condition,
have been ministered to through
church and school. Seven hundred
and fifty missionaries have preached
and taught among these various peo-
pies.
More than half of the negroes in
the south can read and write; a tai
ented tenth are well advanced in in
telligence and character and have
become industrious and useful citizens
with homes of their own. A public
school system, poor and inadequate
every state. Three-fifths of our pupils
are still in the primary and intermedi-
ate grades. We have thirty-eight nor
NAL and graded school among the col
ored people. Ten of them are board
ing schools, and nearly all have in
dustrial work.
There is great need of reinforce
ments to adequately care for the out
stations in Porto Rico.
1.-The receipts were $S25,478 and the
expenditures $373,9S1. The debt is
$67,917."
An amendment to the divorce
White, of Bloomfield, N. J., went to
the committee on canons. DR.. Whites
amendment forbade the remarriage
of divorced persons, and added words
not be considered as the expression
of an opinion by the church as to the
Interpretation of the ninth verse of
the nineteenth chapter of st. Mat
validity of the remarriage of the in
nOcent party divorced for the cause
of adultery.
The deputies concurred with the
bishops in establishing a foreign mis-
sionary diocese in Mexico.
Work on a New Canon.
Boston, Oct. 18.-The house of dep
uties of the Episcopal general con-
vention again took up today the new
canon establishing courts of review.
Inc WOTk on the canon WIS PIdC-
tically completed yesterday but num-
Der of provisions remained to be acted
upon. The woman's auxiliary of the
board of missions at their conference
was addressed by Right Rev. Lucien
Lee Kinsolving, bishop of southern
Brazil; Bishop William H. Moreland, of
Sacramento, and Bishop James B.
Funston of Boise, Idaho.
The house of bishops today nomi- !
mated the following persons for mis-
sionary bishops:
Rev. Logan Herbert Roots, formerly
of Kansas, for Hankow, China; Rev. |
Franklin Spencer Spalding, of Erie, |
Pa, for the district of Salt Lake, and |
Rev. Albion Williamson Knight, jr., of |
Atlanta Ga for Cuba ff+e
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
A girl with the mumps doesn't feel
exactly swell.
1t is much easier to follow an exam
pie than to set one.
When some women have nothing to
say they just chatter.
Many a married man has cried: "Give
me liberty or give he a divorcei
1t doesn't follow that an umbrella has
been stolen just because it is recovered.
Nell-"They say that charity begins
at home" Belle-"So does economy,
and it generally begins with a wifes
allowance"
Wigg-"I hear you were out cunning
with Guzzler. Did he hit anything?"
Wagg-"Well, about every half-hour he
hit flask
You can't measure the effect of
things by their size. says the Manayunk
afraid of microbes than of elephants
Uncle Jared Clovertop-"Yes; out in
the country we go to bed with the
chickens" Little Willie Cityboy-
"Gracious I should think they'd lay
eggs all over you'll"
The pessimist repining.
Means aloud
That every silver lining
Has a cloud.
Blobbs-"Closefist is rather mean,
isn't hep" Slobbs-"Mean? Why, that
fellow would kick because he couldn't
get an encore out of a penny-in-the-slot
r1011Sfp hoy
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ISLAND WORN BY SHEEP.
California Geologist Says Rocky Ana
capa Is Fast Disappearing.

Berkeley, Cal, Oct: 1s.-That the Island
channel group. is slowly disappearing in
ment of Fred johnson, who with a party
of scientists from Berkeley recently Wis
tied the place. And more curious still,
Johnson claims that this phenomenon is
due to the presence of 400 sheep on the
barren rocky island. These sheep, ac-
cording to johnson, are actually wearing
away the rocks. On the south side of the
island they run along the top of precip-
itous cliffs, forming deep pathways about
three feet from the edge of the cliff
Rain soaks into these rutS and from time
to time parts of the bluff fall into the
sea.
On the north side of the island are can
yons and hollowS where the soil has coll
lected. Between the rock and the upper
crust the soil washes out and caves some
times deep twenty feet are formed.
The sheep run over the top of these, wear
ruts in the earth, which in turn is washed
into the sea.
Another remarkable statement of the
scientists who visited the island is to the
effect that there is no drinking water on
the island for the sheep. All the refresh
ment and nourishment they get comes
from the leaves of the prickly pear plant,
which the sheep very dexterously manip-
ulate so not to be hurt by the thorns.
The only man on the island is the sheep
herder, who draws his supply of drinking
and cooking water from ciStern in
which he collects rain water
johnson is preparing a report on Ana
capa island for the department of GEOLOGY
at the state university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-18
BRYAN GROWS HOARsE.
Speaks to DePauw Students on Duties
of Citizenship.

Bryan's first speech today was at large
meeting here which was attended by
He spoke briefly Of the duties Of c TaSa
ship. Mr.. Bryan's voice was slightly
hoarSe
The fifth day of Mr.. Bryan's tour in In
diana, which closed with a speech be{ore
a mass meeting of Democrats in Marion,
of the tour in point of attendance and en-
thusiasm- The itinerary included Lafay-
cite. Lebanon. Frankfort. Delphi. Logans--
port, Converse and Marion AT each of
these stops Mr.. Bryan spoke along lines
followed during the previous days of his
tour.
Some of the sentences which character
lied the speeches OF Mr.. Bryan were:
You need not be afraid of Parkers sill
Yer views
Those who voted for me ought to be
the easiest to convince of the necessity Of
Young Tor Parker 1t was not for personal
reasons that you voted for me. but be-
cause you wanted improved conditions
which have not come under Republican
IF you vote against Parker because he
Is against free silver you make silver the
now the chief question
II the Republicans are consistent they
ought to advise tho silver Democrats OF
he is for gold and the gold Democrats of
the east to vote for Parker because he is
for gold. but instead they tell the gold
cause he voted for me-
would rather go down to eternal
ton of Roosevelt
II did not come out of the St Louis
convention all cut up! 1 will live. have
DC ~ m po1fics IA years and expect to be
The Republicans have gone from the
four years and Within i four yeeTs p1a more
look out for water pitchers
If we can defend the purchase of Fill
pinos we can also defend the sale of
American citizens
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WEDDING COST HER $4,000.
Bride of Two Weeks Begins Suit
Against Her Husband.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 1S.-Mrs.
Frances lowering Pfouts Rogers,
whose marriage in this city to Joseph
Brooks Rogers, a society man, on Sep
TENDER 2S was kept secret until to-
day, when she began suit to recover
$4,000 from her husband at Knox
vile, Tenn, which sum, she alleges,
she gave him on their wedding day, is
one of the largest heiresses of this
section. She comes of one of the old
est families in the county, and her
forefathers were among the early set
tiers here
The family home at Riverside. just
below this city, is deserted, but an in
terview with distant relative of the
family brought out the fact that the
couple had met in Colorado and the
match was soon arranged. The wo-
man claims that just before she left
the city she converted about SIS, 1000
worth of stocks in a bank in this city
into cash. This is supposed to have
been the money which she charges
her husband of two weeks with TAX
ing with him when he left her this
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-18
KANSAS AT THE HEAD.
Continental Creamery Butter Gets
Gold Medal at St. Louis.

Meadow Gold' butter made by the
Continental Creamery company of To-
I peka has taken the highest prize at the
Worlds fair at St. Louis. 1t has been
awards, and w. f. Jensen today re-
ceived official notification of the award.
The decision was made last week ana
was afterward approved by the super
| ior jury, and the decision of the jury
| of awards was upheld.
The award of the first prize is fit
| ting compliment to Kansas and the
| largest creamery concern in the world.
The exhibit of the Continental Cream
cry company was in competition with
the exhibits of the creameries in all
parts of the United States and the
state exhibits from states which have
been recognized as dairy states for q
much longer time tnan Kansas has.
The Continental Creamery company
installed at the fair a small refrigerat-
Ing plant and made the exhibit in a
glass case which was kept refrigerated
at all times.
The old method and the new method
of marketing butter was exemplihed-
The new method was shown in the
neat air tight packages which keeps
the butter clean fr0m all disagreeable
odors and contamination.
The old method was portrayed by
the marketing of butter in the old
style wooden bucket, which is open to
disagreeable contamination.
Meadow Gold butter is put UP in the
same kind of packages that Uneeda
biscuits are packed in, the inner-seal
package. This assures the purchaser
that the butter when served is free
from outside detrimental influences.
The butter is made and packed in an
exceptionally clean and sanitary build
ing Cleanliness throughout the pro-
cess of manufacture, packing and
shipping is the aim in the marketing
of the product.
The award of first prize for butter
to a Kansas creamery places Kansas
butter at the head of the product of
all of the dairy states. 1t was only
few years ago that Kansas butter was
regarded as a second-class butter, but
the product of the Continental cream
cry has changed all that 1t is used
all over the country where only the
best will be accepted. The best hotels
and the most exclusive families all
over the United States and Mexico use
Meadow Gold butter. The Continental
Creamery company is also a very
heavy advertiser, using newspapers
and billboards in all parts of the
United States.
The capacity of the creamery is a
hundred thousand pounds of butter
per day, and the demand always ex-
ceeds the supply.
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SEES A LANDSLIDE.
Chairman Babcock Makes Encourag-
ing Report to President.

Washington, October 1S.-President
Roosevelt has received gratifying news
from Representative Babcock, chair
man of the Republican congressional
committee. Mr.. Babcock came to
Washington from New York, where he
has been directing the campaign for
the election for members of the house
in connection with the campaign of the
Republican national committee. He
assured the president that all of the
surface indications pointed not only to
a landslide for the Republican nation
al ticket but to the election of a
house of representatives that would
have a large majority in accord with
the administration.
There is not the slightest doubt that
we will control the next house." said
Mr.. Babcock this evening. The story
that I expressed the opinion that the
Democrats would probably elect ma
jority of that body was started by the
managers of Judge Parker'S campaign.
We are in much better shape than we
were at this period of the campaign
four years ago, and feel sure we will
have a larger majority in the next
house than we have in the present one.
AS to the national ticket, it will win
by landslide majorities throughout the
east and west"
Mr. Roosevelt received an account
of the western trip of Senator Fair
banks, His informant was Colonel
Daniel Ransden of Inu1ana, sergeant
alarms of the senate, who accompa-
MED the senator. Colonel Ransdell
told the president the trip was salts
factory. It consumed a little over three
weeks and on some days Senator Fair
banks made as many as IL speeches to
crowds. Colonel Ransdell
expressed the belief that Roosevelt and
Fairbanks would carry every north
western and western state with the
possible exception of Nevada, which he
believes to be in some doubt, with Re
publican leanings. Indiana he regards
as certain for the Republicans, al
though the Democrats, he says pro-
pose to make vigorous campaign in
the state from now on until election
day. Senator Fairbanks, who will
speak in the east during the next ten
days will spend the last week of the
campaign in Indiana
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WANT HONEST UNDERWEAR.
Complaint in the Trade About Practice
of Skimping Size of Garments.

An agitation is now going on in the
underwear manufacturing trade IN
favor of establishing some standard of
size for garments on which both the
retail dealers and the public can depend
and which, if adhered to, will put a stop
to what is really a fraud on the public
The number marked on a garment is
usually supposed to indicate its actual
size. Thus 80 garment ought to meas
ure SO inches, a 40 garment 40 inches,
and SO on. AS a matter of fact, how
ever, in the cheaper grades of under
wear the practice of marking up sizes
has gained ground SO fast that the num-
bering has come to mean little or moth
ing. This is especi. lily SO this season
on account of the high price of cotton,
which tempted the manufacturers to
take advantage of any scheme to cheap
en- the garments. Now in the cheapest
grades a. garment marked 80 may only
measure "a inches, and the retailers
have been overwhelmed with COM
plants, which they have passed on to
the jobbers, and which the jobbers in
turn have passed on to the manufac-
turers. This kind of skimping has only
been tried on the cheapest grades of
garments, but there has been another
method which is even more annoying to
the consumer, and which has run
through nearly all the grades. This is
the practice of skimping material in
other ways, while making the garment
to measure just what 1t Is marked, as
far as the main dimensions are concern
ed. Thus a shirt marked 40 will meas
ure 40 inches in the chest, but will be
an inch or two short in the body, and
pair of drawers marked SO will meas
ure So inches around the waist, but the
legs will be so narrow that the wearer
will probably split them the first or
second time he tries to put them on
The chief reason for this condition
is the practice prevailing in the under
wear trade of selling goods at fixed
price. A garment must be made to
sell at 25 or so cents, and if cotton
goes up the retailer feels that he can
not get 26 or 81 cents for the same
garment. He demands that the man
ufacturer still furnish him with the
same garment or one equally as at
tractive to sell at the standard price,
and the business is so far from the
consumer, all the business in this line
being done through commission houses
and jobbers, that he often feels that
he does not need to study the public's
wants at all. For some time there
has been an agitation in favor of ask
ing the retailers to try to change the
system of fixed price selling. 1t OBJ
tains in no country but the United
States, and the European countries
who sell goods here have simply re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-18
DEPUTIES FIGHT.
Kisses Resented by Blows With an
Umbrella.

Paris, Oct. 18.-Parliament reas-
sembled today in extraordinary ses-
sion. a lively incident occurred in the
corridors between NJ. Pugliesi-C Cont,
Republican, and M. Celestin Bose, a
late Bonapartist candidate. The lat
ter Missed NJ. Pugliesi-Conti, who re-
sponded with blows from his UNI
brella. The parties were eventually
separated.
M. Brisson presided in the chamber,
where many interpretations were pre-
scented. Premier Combes on behalf of
the ministry proposed that the cham
Der first discuss the interpretations
relative to the rupture with Rome and
thereafter the Marseilles strike and
the charges against the administration
or the war office. The proposal
brought on a spirited controversy.
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ENGLAND'S DEMANDS.
Basis for a Long Occupation of Thi-
betan Territory.

Great Britain of an indemnity of $3,-
10000 from the Thibetans appears
likely to lead to a prolonged British
occupation of the Chumbi valley. The
Thibetans declared their inability to
pay the indemnity within the three
years first stipulated and Great Brit
ain has now proposed that the pay
ments be made at the rate of $4,000
yearly, and that until the whole sum
is paid the British retain possession
of this valley. which is the key to
Thibet. The Thibetans are said to APP
prove of the proposal, but China's OPP
position to the ratification of the treaty
is increasing, causing fear that the
Dalai Lama and his Russian associate
may be induced to return to L'Eassa
and upset the British calculations.
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MICHIGAN CONVICTs ESCAPE.
Four Prisoners at jackson Elude the
Guards and Get Over Walls.

Jackson, Mich, Oct. 18-Four convicts
escaped from the prison here about 6
o'clock last night. They were James
MCGEE from Cass county, Mount Hard
ing, Kalamazoo; Robert Terry Ingham,
and Harry Gilbert, Calhoun county.
The men had been painting a smoke
stack. They went to supper and, al
though it is the rule for prisoners to go
to their cells Immediately after eating,
they returned to their place of work
on the pretext of changing some of
their clothing and were not watched.
When out of sight of the guards they
quickly placed ladders against the wall
and climbed over. Terry was pitcher
for the prison ball team, which is one
of the best amateur mines in the state.
Gilbert had only five months more to
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Wants $4,000 for a Kiss.

Cincinnati, Oct ISIS a stolen kiss
worth $4,000? This is the question
which will have to be decided by Fed
eral Judge Cochran when court con-
venes in Covington, KY, Monday. Mrs.
Grant Mitts, a blue grass society leader
of Mason, KY, thinks she is entitled
to that amount for a kiss she declares
was stolen last June by J. B. Alexan-
der, a friend of her husband, who
made a friendly call while the husband
was not at home. and she has brought
suit. AS a result of the larceny of the
kiss Mrs. Mitts declares she is a nerv-
Gus wreck and has been subjected to
much humiliation and notoriety.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
Spinsters never like to talk about old
times.
A word to the wise is sufficient-but
few men are wise.
The hardest bird to catch is the eagle
on a $40 gold piece.
If a girl marries well her friends over
look her other faults.
The average man is always wanting
to do something he can't.
The application of a porous plaster
is a great drawback 20 lovemaking.
Many an odd fellow in this country
doesn't belong to an 1. 0. o. F. lodge
If man has the cheek to ask a girl
to marry she seldom has the face to re-
fuse.
Some men would have no excuse for
living if their wives didn't take in
boarders.
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Cotton exports in the month of Sep
TENDER. 1904, exceeded both in quanti-
ty and value those of any September
in any earlier year. The figures pre-
scented by the department of commerce
and labor through it's bureau of sta
&istics show the total quantity of cot
ton exported during the single month
OF September, 1904, as 41O. $40, s94 pounds
valued at S43. 742, 325. These figures ex-
coed those of any earlier September
both as to the quantity and value of
cotton exported. The next largest Sep
TENDER expectation of cotton in earlier
years was that Of September, 1902.
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verdict of $1,000 Awarded.

New York, Oct. 1S.-On the ground
that the defendant had misrepresented
the value of mining property involved
in transa ction. jury in the supreme
court in Brooklyn today awarded a
verdict of $500 to Edward B. Tustin
of the First National Bank of Blooms
burg, Pa. in a suit against Frank S.
Hobbs, mining engineer of Boise
City, Idaho. The original amount sued
for was $1,000 and the verdict awards
the plaintiff the full amount.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

John Mex Miller died of heart trou-
BILE Monday afternoon at his home, 1876
Tyler street, at the age of SO years.
He leaves three daughters and two
sons Mrs. Harry b. Stillman of Ar
gentine. Misses Gertrude and Jean Mil
Ter of Topeka, and James and Thomas
Miller of Ration, New Mexico. Pend
ing word from the latter, funeral ar
engagements will not be announced to-
day.
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when the total was s47.5ss.1oO pounds,
valued at $29, $50. s15. In September of
1901, 1897, 1896, and 1890 the total num-
Der of pounds of cotton exported ex-
ceeded 200 millions. but in the inter-
mediate years the totals were in many
cases very much less, SO that the Sep
TENDER, 1904 exports of cotton may be
considered as fully double the average
September exports in earlier years.
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Italian Socialists in Protest.

Rome, Oct. 1S-There was a meeting to-
day of the members of the extreme left of
the chamber of deputies, comprised of
radical Republicans and Socialists, to
consider the proposal of a general resig-
nation of seats, as a protest against the
government.
About one-half of the extreme left par
ticipated in the meeting.
The discussion developed such disorder
that it was impossible to reach any de-
CiSiOn.