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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
lola Man a Suicide.

lola, Kas., Sept. 26.-John Hurd, a
resident of this city and for many
years a travelling man for Swift &
Co and other meat houses, committed
suicide here in the Office of the
county Jail. For several years Hurd
has had family troubles, which led to
drinking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
To Sink Two Wells.

Miami, I. T, Sept. "a MAN
company has closed a contract here fol
drilling two oil wells 1000 feet deep
Work will begin in thirty days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26

ficient capital to build a refinery of
their own. The movement is receiv-
ing much encouragement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26

Learnard is a past exalted ruler of the
local lodge and a lawyer. He is now
Judge of the county court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
Place for o. e. Learnard. Jr.

Lawrence, Kas., Sept. 26.-Judge O.
E. Learnard. jr., has received notice
OF his appointment as district deputy
for the grand lodge B. P. o. Elks for
Kansas for the coming year. Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26

It's folly to suffer from that horrible
plague of the night. itching piles. Doan' S
Ointment cures, quickly and permanently.
At any drug store, &C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Southern Pacific has resumed the
pay car system Of settling with employees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
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Columns. Ohio. Nav 30. roo.

Column DuS, ONO, May 40, 1903.
Six years ago had severe attack of
Inhammatory Rheumatism. was laid up
in bed for six months, and the doctors I
had did me no good. They changed med
icines every week and nothing they pre-
scribed seemed to help me- Finally be-
gan the use of S. S. S. My knee and elbow
joints were swollen terribly, and at one
time my joints were so swollen and pain
full that I could not close them when
opened was so bad that could not
move knee or foot. was.getting discour-
aged, you may be sure, when began S. S.
s., but as I saw 1t was helping me 1 contin-
ued it, and to-day am sound well man
and have never had return of the disease.
S. S. S. purified my blood and cured me
of this severe case of Rheumatism after
everything else had failed L have rec
commended it to others with good re-
suits. r. b. CHAPMAN.
1855 Mt. Vernon Ave.
The poisonous acids that produce them
fammation and pain are absorbed into the
blood and Rheumatism can never be con-
Quered till these are neutralized and FL
tered out of the blood and system. S. S. S.
goes directly into the circulation and at
tacks the disease itself It purifes and re-
stores the blood to a healthy, vigorous
condition. 1t contains no potash, alkali or
IN - other strong min
SIS J ! !: ! J ]. !
- erals, but is guar
anteed entirely
vegetable. Write
us and our physi-
W. clans will advise
with out any
4 In charge whatever.
Our book on Rheu-
~ - matism sent free.
The Swift Specific Company, Atlanta. Ga.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26

One way coIonist rates 5000 to Ogden.
Salt Lake, Butte and Helena. S22 so to
Spokane. $500 to Portland, Tacoma.
and Seattle. $500 to San Francisco
and Los Angeles. On sale Sept. Is to
Oct. Is. Cheap rates to all points in
California, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon.
Washington and Montana Call and
see about it. ]. c. Fulton, depot agent:
F. A. Lewis. city agent, 525 Kansas ave.
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o. NJ. AiIing. Freeport-Was all run
down. Could not eat or sleep HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea made me a well
man. IS cents. Tea or Tablets. CatIin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
KANSAS NEWS.
Armourdale's Big Soap Factory
About Ready to Start.

Is q Million Dollar Plant and
VIII Employ 1 200 Men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
Russians Against Russians.

The blundering Russians have eyolv' ed new theory as to their firing while crossing Dogger Bank. It seems that the Domitri Donskoi and Aurora had been ordered to slacken speed for the pupose of waiting for the crippled transport Kamchatka They had done so, and were attempting to regain their position in line In the fog only their outlines could be seen. They were emitting much smoke. They looked and acted like torpedo boats, and the order was given to fire upon them. The Aurora, 1t Is claimed, was hit five times, and although the firing lasted but ten minutes the fishing yes sels near by were freely hit, one or two being sunk, and two fishermen at least were killed.
 Vice Admiral Rojestrensky's latest defence Is no more to his credit or Russian se2manship in general than his first story was. The query now is, why was not this story told at the out set, for all on the Aurora at any rate knew the situation, and the Aurora was with the fleet at all times? The new Russian explanation takes the Japanese out of the case, and all we Russian blunders, and a big bill for damages that Russia will gladly pay in order to get rid of an unpleasant and uncomplimentary incident.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
LITTLE YARNS.

From the Chicago News.
 Lord Erskine, when chief justice of England presided once at the Chelms- ford assizes, when a case of breach of promise of marriage was tried before him in which 9 Miss Tickell was plaintiff. The counsel was a pompous young man named Stanton, who opened the case with solemn emphasis thus; "rlckell, the plaintiff, my lord" Erskine drly interrupted him with: Oh. tickle her yourself, MT Stan ton It would be unbecoming to my posi- tion."
 Positively the worst struggle l ever had in the water" said the young man who had been at sea, was one night try ing to save a man with a wooden leg '" Man" said an old Scotchman, who was quietly listening. If ye had got a bit of rope ye could have saved the man quicker wi it than ye could dae wi ten widen legs
 "On the one hand" said the teacher, pointing long finger at the map on the blackboard, '1s the scene of the present complications in Russia, on the other hand" Here he paused and looked stern ly at a shock-headed boy "On the other hand" Warts" hazarded the shock headed boy, helpless with terror.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
FUSS, FEATHERS AND PARSE.

From the New York Herald
 MT. Jerome is making a unique record in the district attorneys office
 Hiss fuss and feathers campaign waged for two years in the press, the legisla- ture and the court with the avowed pur- pose of putting Richard A. Canfield in jail was yesterday brought to a farcical conclusion
 Garfield and his manager having been indicted as common gamblers were ac- companied into court by MT. Jerome who. upon their pleading guilty, consented to their discharge upon payment of a fine.
 Mir. Jerome's axe and crowbar raid upon Canfield's house two years ago, his pursuit of well known citizens that Mir. Jerome wanted as witnesses and whose names were therefore trumpeted through the land as men who had gambled in the place. the arrest of one citizen be- cause he refused to testify, are fresh in the public mind.
 So, too. Mir. Jerome's eloquent appeals to the legislature to pass a bill com polling any one who had entered gam bling house to testify. The legislature passed the law and the court of appeals affirmed its constitutionality. And now, with this weapon fitted to his hand-the weapon with which he promised to ac- complish much-the two gamblers go free with a fine which they probab bly would have willingly paid two years ago.
 What a farce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
Let the People Sneak.

The people of every precinct, along every highway, should make their de- sires as to the use of convicts on county roads known. Every portion of the county should be heard from. A delegation from every precinct go be- fore at least one member of the board of revenue making plain what the peo- pie want.
 The board of revenue has no desire to defy the will of the people, desiring on the other hand to carry out their wishes, and it Is the duty of the peo- pie throughout the county to speak out. The sentiment of the county is unmistakable, but nothing should be taken for granted. Let the wishes of tLe people be made known.
 Speak at once through The Age Herald, or better still, send delega. tions to go before the board of revenue prepared to present the sentiment of their respective localities. If the mat ter could be submitted to a vote, the convicts would be placed on the coun- ty roads beyond all question, and the would be kept there indefinitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
More Publicity Proposed.

Representative Bourlle Cochran has introduced two bills relative to cam paign subscriptions. One of them provides for the appointment of a special committee to ascertain the amounts expended by both parties in presidential elections from 1892 to 1904, inclusive. MT. Cochran proposes to find out where the money came from, the purposes for which 1t was used, and the manner in which 1t was disbursed He wants all such in formation on or before January 1, 1905.
 The other bill provides that when any sums exceeding $50 are eontribu- ted to party funds, in congressional or presidential elections, a statement shall be filed within three days with the clerk of the district court showing the name and residence of the donors, and of the person receiving such sums. A failure to file such a statement is to be punishable by imprisonment not to exceed three years. The statements are to be published.
 The house, no doubt, will promptly pigeon-hole MT. Cockran's bills; but the controlling party cannot escape the responsibility of non-action on the bills. One of the bills is retroactive, but as it proposes an investigation only no objection lies to it on that account. The two propositions would, no doubt, in case they became law, be largely evaded, but legislation of that nature would have a tendency towards purer methods, and once begun it can be strengthened and bettered from time to .ime.
 The two bills should become laws, but they assuredly will not. MT. Cochran will. however, be apt to bring the subject before the house in some form, and when he speaks all the members listen. The evil aimed at is of the gravest nature, and MT. Cock ran should not leave stone unturned to pass his bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
REINDEER IN ALASKA.

Casper Whitney, in December Outing.
 That scheme for importing reindeer into Alaska from Siberia, which met with crit ieism and even with ridicule when first suggested a few years ago by Dr. Shel- don Jackson, is now proving the salvation of the Alaskan Eskimos. While the origi- nal thought was only to repair the rapid ly lessening food supply of the natives, yet 1t has developed into a veritable rein deer industry So successfully has tie plan worked. in fact, that rot only does 1t furnish the natives with food, clothing and means of transportation, but holds out the prospect of putting Alaska in a few years in the position of supplying deer meat to an outside market. Reir- deer does are prolific and an excellent cheese is made of their milk. As car liers they have already surplantee dogs for the United States mail, and may be ridden, or will carry easily pack of 15O pounds In fact. the reindeer industry is already very important one, with widen ing significance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
LoNDoNs GREATEST PAPER

Sidney Brooks in Harper's Weekly
 The Times is still easily the most au- thoritative journal not only in Enganu, but in the world, and it gives the cue to all the provincial organs that share it's views. The Times indeed, is not a news paper; 1t Is the Times. 1t is an institu- tion. a necessity. as much a part of the unchallenged order of things the mon- archy itself. A short time ago when the Times was reducing the price of Its sub scription to $15 a year, the editor of great London daily remarked to me that the move was mistake. Unsteady or lowering the price," he said. "they should double it. It is tnreepence copy Csix cents) they should make 1t sixpence a copy (twelve cents). l cannot imagine them losing a single subscriber Every body who is anybody in England, simply has to have the Times. whatever it's cost" I do not know whether my friends question was economically sound. but 1t shows what Is thought of the Times that one of the shrewdist editors in London could launch the Napoleonic idea of pub fishing it at twelve cents a day. That the Times is sometimes heavy, that it is often pretudiced and intolerant, especially on Irish affairs. Is undeniabe; but its un- rivalled foreign service. the excellence and authority of its special articles from all countries and on all political subjects. and its magnificence in throwing open its correspondence columns to arguments on all sides of every public question more than justify it's reputation and more than explain its position and influence It comes nearer to being a national forum than any journal in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
PERILs OF HOLIDAY SEASON.

From Leslie's Weekly
 Perhaps 1t Is in connection with domes- tic and amateur theatricals that the risks are greatest and the largest number of accidents occur. We recall two fatalities which occurred at the Christmas season in New York City year ago at entertain ments of this kind, both involving the death of little children whose costumes caught fire from Christmas candles Chill dren and adults alike have been dressed. for example, and almost buried, in a pro fusion of cottonwood intended to repre- sent snow. without the least regard nav ing been paid to the ready infiammability of the material and without any precau- tlons to keep 1t from coming into con- tact with a naked flame. 1t cannot be too well known that cottonwood burns with the fierceness of spirit, and that the flame is very hot and very difficult to extin- guish. Great caution should also be exer- cised in regard to the drapery used for scenic purposes, which should consist, so far as possible, If not entirely, of non- infammable or of not easily ignited ma terial There is, again, a similar danger connected with cellrloid ornaments and toys. The Celluloid ball is fiercely and cas- fly innammabe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
Winter In New Orleans.

The winter season is on in New Or leans," said H. Donohoo, a travelling man of the Crescent City, at the St. Nicholas, yesterday, "and the old town is in an entertaining mood. Business is good, the people are happy and the number of visitors is greater than ever before at this season of the year.
 T am glad to say that the pool rooms have been put out of business in New Orleans. They died hard, but they are gone now and forgotten.
 "It is well that 1t Is so. The horse bug Is about as bad a germ as a man can get into his system. It has put many a good man on the bum. And the pool room game of playing the horses is the worst form of the disease. Now that the rooms are closed in New Orleans a great many men who otherwise would have been at work will now take their places in the ranks of industry.
 T hear that there Is only one pool room open now from New Orleans to New York city and that Is at Memphis. and even there it Is on the Arkansas side of the river. They're closed in Birmingham, Macon, Savannah, Charles ton. Chattanooga and Nashville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
Stock Market.

l Henry Clews in his Saturday letter re-
 fers to the recent furry in Wall street as
 follows:
 Like "a bolt from the blue the crash | in Wall street came when least expected
 and when all seemed serene. The truth
 is the market was ripe for a break. For
 weeks and months stocks continued to rise
 without interruption until speculation,
 overestimated by increasingly favorable
 outside conditions. carried the market up to the point of collapse Sentiment every
 where was so overwhelmingly bullish
 that weak spots were ignored and a situ- ation created, where only a shock of some sort was needed to force wholesale liqui-
 dation. This shock came in the form of
 an attack upon Amalgamated copper,
 which promptly exposed the weakened
 condition of the whole market stocks, it
 was then seen, had passed 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 were so high that no substantial buyers could be found except at such | heavy declines as exhausted weak mar gins and frightened tlmid holders out
 of their senses. The decline was, of course. accompanied by the usual supply of un- l settling rumors and intensified by the trading element who always push a | movement in either direction 10 the ut
 mosphere has been much clarified by this
 unwelcome squall Values are now on a more substantial basis and weak spots have been pretty thoroughly eliminated. A period of irregularity may follow such
 shock, but speculation is likely to be carried on within safer and narrower
 limits, and the so-called boom has re- | ceived timely and much needed check.
 Conservative bankers had for some time | been apprehensive of excesses, and eau tlon has been repeatedly urged in these
 advices. so the break caused no surprise to our readers
 AS for the future. that depends largely
 upon developments, At this writing the | crisis appears to be about over. The | trouble has been strictly confined to | technical conditions the stock market being simply overbought, prices unrea- | sonably high and the speculative spirit reckless. Intrinsic conditions. it should | be noted are undisturbed and sound.
 This break is not likely to have any de-
 terrent effect upon legitimate business. 1"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
THE SONG OF THE SEA WIND.

By Austin Dobson. How 1t sings, sings, sings, Blowing sharply from the sea line. With an edge of salt that stings; How 1t laughs aloud and passes, As 1t cuts the close cliff grasses; How it sings again and whistles,
 How it shakes the stout sea thistles-
 How it sings! How 1t shrieks, shrieks, shrieks, In the crannies of the headland, In the gashes of the creeks; How it shrieks once more and catches Up the yellow foam in patches;
 How it whirls it out and over
 To the cornfield and the clover
 How it shrielSs! How it roars, roars, roars, In the iron under -caverns, In the hollows of the shores; How it roars anew and thounders, As the strong hull splits and sunoers'
 And the spent ship, tempest-driven'
 On the reef Is rent and riven-
 How it roarsl How it walls. walls, walls. In the tangle of the wreckase In the Tapping of the sails; How it sobs away. subsiding' Like tired child after chiding;
 And across the ground-swai rolling,
 How it walls!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
St. Louis and Other Propositions.

In the course of about forty years, or since the days of the civil war, this country has aided eleven indus trial exhibitions at home, and ten in foreign lands The government has expended in this way more than twenty-one million dollars, about one third of which sum was spent at the St. Louis fair.
 It is generally conceded that the St.. Louis fair was the finest of the long series, but the attendance at St Louis did not equal that of Chicago or that of either of the Paris eXpositions. The total admissions at St. Louis were slightly more than eighteen millions, and the actual receipts were about eleven million dollars, while the total cost of the fair was about twice that sum. It is freely stated that President Francis will be able to pay all debts excepting or course the local, muni- cipal and individual subscriptions which took the form of stock, not of debt, in the narrower sense of the word. The fair has met all expenses and paid all debts, and that is no small achievement There Is no deficit.
 The fair cost the city of St. Louis five million dollars. The citizens of that city contributed five million more, and the general government and the states and the foreign countries did the rest. It is now a question whether St. Louis will reap an equivalent bene- ft from the fair-whether it has or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12

will get in advertising the worth or it's money. To the country at large the fair was worth all 1t cost, but Chi- cago is not satisfied today that the exposition of 1893 was a benefit to the city itself. An occasional great exhibition is no doubt helpful to the country, but the town that shelters 1t is generally in doubt as to it's value in a strictly local sense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
PECULIAR HOBBIES OF
 THE MODERN CROESUS

age he came into control of estates worth e3o,OO0 a year, which. to use his own words, literally melted away" The turf first took up his attention. He. gave e12,0O0 for Kangaroo, the highest price but one ever given for a race horse, and proceeded to bet on the most enormous scale.
 He dropped e1os0OO when Hermit won the Derby. in addition to fSO.O0O over an- other race.
 He delighted in thowing dice at e1OO a throw, tossing for $50 notes. cutting cards for s20O a cut. In one evening he won e1O,4O0 at hazard, and the next lost e7s,- OO0 In six short years he gambled away a prIneely estate in Ayrshire and his magnificent home at Bennington, York shire
 Another marquis Ailesbu-y, owed 91S5,- coo before he came of age. He would ire quently write a check for f15oo in the morning, and be without penny before the day was over.
 With estates worth e60,OOO per annum, seven years at this rate of living sufficed to ruin hIm. Before his death he was forced to accept the hospitality of his agent, and eke out existence on the paltry sum of e2O week
 G. A. Baird, better known as Abingdon Baird. did all in his power to ruin him self but as his income exceeded e25O, GOO year. and he died when he was a2. he did not succeed. His money went on pugilists and other characters" whom he domiciled and provided with pocket money to the tune of e1500 a week. His devices to make his money fly were varied and ingenious.
 Several dozens of bottles of the finest champagne would be opened. and after he and his cronies had had one glass out of each bottle the rest would be thrown | away. With the idea of changing his luck, he dropped an opal pin-worth f220 over Westminster bridge. single suit of pearls. which he presented to a lady, cost e17010.
 Mllllonaires frequently lavish enormous sums on the fitting up of their bedrooms, and there Is a house in London on the principal bedroom of which the sum of e6O0O0 was expended. The desire to hold a monopoly in wines is another character istic of the average millionaire.