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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
WAR OF WOMEN.
Big Rattle Over the Army Canteen Is
Brewing.

Washington, Dec. 26.-Mrs. Russell A
Alger, wife of the senator from Mtcht-
Rixey, wife of the surgeon general OF
the navy, and Mrs. Sternberg, wife or
the ex-surgeon general of the navy, are
late recruits of the Womans Army and
Navy league, which is making a fight
for the restoration of the army canteen.
The league has succeeded in interesting
number of women in its work whom
the workers of the Women's Christian
Temperance union will find difficulty in
combating.
The leaders in the army movement
will include, before the contest is end
ed, numerous women of refinement and
wealth in all parts of the country,
where the social standing cannot be
questioned and where home life repre-
sents the highest American ideals. The
Generalization in army circles which
hal followed the abolition of the can
teen is more seriously taken in army
circles than has been generally Suppos-
ed. The lobby representing the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance union mas
not hesitated to approach the wives Of
senators and representatives and exact
promises from them to urge their hus-
bands to vote against the canteen-
The rum Demon" as it figured in
army affairs, afforded a most fruitful
theme for gossip at the functions which
the industrious agitators OF the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance union at
tended. The advocates of the restora-
ton of the canteen allege that there has
been the grossest Misrepresentation ana
that many good women were persuaded
by enthusiasts that the army canteen
meant that each soldier was provided
with a canteen filled with whisky which
he sIung over his shoulder. Wives OF
members of congress knew nothing
about the actual conditions, and their
husbands, who did not appreciate the
importance of the legislation, voted to
abolish the canteen, as many OF them
have explained, Just to keep peace in
the family
These same women will have the other
side of the picture presented by the
most charming women in the army and
navy circles. They will learn just what
an army canteen really is and how 1t is
operated and the women who will tell
them about it have lived in the army
atmosphere all their lives. The most
active workers in the movement are
Mrs. John Kelton and Mrs. George M
Sternberg. Mrs. Kelton and Mrs. STERN
berg are widows.
In the Soldiers Home cemetery there
is a monument erected to ITO the Mem
DRY of the Soldiers Friend" There is
no name on the monument, but II IS
known throughout army circles every
where that the monument was erected
to General John Kelton, whose work IN
behalf of temperance and morality IN
the army appealed to the soldiers: It
was General Kelton who established the
practical good which came from 1t re-
suited in it's extension by the army de-
partment.
Mrs. NJ. N. Stevens, national president
of the Women's Christian Temperance
union and Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis.
Newark, N. J., widely known as the
w. C. T. u. lobbyist" are actively en-
gagged in rounding up the congressman
against the canteen and they have a
half dozen industrious assistants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
NEW SCHEME FOR REVENUE.
Western Roads See Chance to Take
Advantage of Government.

The western railroads have made an
arrangement with an eastern law firm
to collect on commission basis claims
against the government for the trans
portation of the equipage of troops since
the beginning of the Spanish war. 1t is
the rule of the railroads to transport
free $50 pounds of baggage, and the
equipment of soldiers was SO classed.
For the convenience of the railroads
and the troops their equipment or i'm
pedimenta" was carried in freight cars.
For any excess over the average of 15O
pounds per man the government paid
first class freight rate.
The orders of the war department to
quartermasters are that all specif1ca-
provide that $50 pounds of equipment
should be transported as baggage for
each officer and enlisted man.
Somebody recently discovered that in
many cases the Quartermasters failed
to insert the clause for the free trans
portation of baggage in making spec1-
fications for the movement of troops,
and test case was brought to compel
the government to pay full freight rates
case was decided in favor of the rail-
road company.
Since then numerous suits have been
won for eastern and southern railroads
in cases where specifications of quar-
termasters for the movement of troops
contained no baggage clause, and the
western railroads expect to collect thou
sands of dollars by the same plan
An eastern lawyer is now here work
ing uD their cases and will be given a
reI centage of all the money he can col
lect from the government because OF
the oversight of army quartermaSterS
and their assistants
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
BALANCE ON WRONG SIDE.
American Board of Missions Paid Out
More Than 1t Received.

Boston. Dec. 24.-The annual re-
port of the American board of for
eign missions shows disbursements
during the past year of $74S,S0S, an
increase over the previous year of ST.
1855, and the excess of expenditures
above receipts was $22,737. The in
crease was due largely to the new
efforts to enlarge the constituency
through the young peoples depart
ment. The report says of the work or
the European Turkey mission:
1.-The last year has witnessed the
continuance of the effort of our gov
eminent to secure the authoritative
recognition of American institutions
and of American citizens in the en-
pire which Turkey has long since con-
ceded to the institutions and citizens
of France, Germany, Russia, Italy and
England, strangely thus far without
success. There is no abatement in the
demand which our government makes.
There is definite purpose to secure
what is our manifest right, and unrea-
sonable delay on the part of Turkey
will only heighten the pressure and
call forth whatever measures may
prove to be needful."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
NEW DRINKING CUPS.
santa Fe Railroad Has Placed Sanitary
Glass Drinking Cups on Trains.

Santa Fe Railroad Has Placed Sanitary
Glass Drinking Cups on Trains.
If a one-armed man or a man without
the full number of hands which nature
provides human beings were to try to
get drink of water on a Santa Fe
train, now, he would find himself as
unable to Quench his thirst as was
Tantalus-unless some fellow passen-
ger came to his aid and turned the
spigot or held the glass; The railroad
company has discarded all the long tin
cones which used to be used for drink
ing cups and in their place has put glass
tumblers. These tumblers have conical
bottoms, so shaped that they cannot be
set on end. The idea is that the patrons
of the water tank will take the hint
and after drinking, set the glass down
in the receiver upside down, thereby
letting them drain and dry.
81 The change is made for sanitary pur-
poses. The order abolishing the tin
cups and establishing the glass goblets
went into effect Tuesday, December 20
Each brakeman was allowed to draw
three. Some of the more long-headed,
with a view of the future, demanded
half dozen. The glasses promise to be
much shorter lived than the tin cups.
These latter reSembled nothing so much
as the cones OF tunnels used by presti-
digitators and were practically eternal
Nothing ever happened to disturb their
sway. They were practically indestruc-
tible and so ugly that no one ever
thought of carrying them off, in an
absent-minded manner of course.
No so with the new glasses. One or
them came in from a trip of 200 miles
with a big hole knocked out of the rim.
A brakeman predicted that three glasses
would be broken in week. Does the
company pay for them?" he was asked.
"No. they charge them up to the brake
man." said a conductor standing by,
with q twinkle in his eye. IF thought
they would I'd switch this onto another
train for a good one the first chance
I get" said the brakeman. Many pas
sengers fail to understand the intention
of the company, and instead of standing
the glasses upside down they lay them
in the sink. where they rock to and
fro and chip their edges against the
iron.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
WRONG IDEA.

Don't get the wrong idea into your
head that starvation is good for Dys-
pepsia.
Those who have not studied the sub
feet very deeply, or with trained scfen-
tific minds, might think so.
But facts prove otherwise.
All specialists in stomach and diges-
tive disorders know, thaz it is best for
dyspepsia to be well fed.
Why, dyspepsia is really starvation
disease!
BY starvation, you may give your
bowels and kidneys less to do, but that
does not cure your digestive trouble
simply makes you weaker and Sicker;
less likely to be permanently cured than
ever.
No, the only right way to permanent
w cure yourself of any form of dys-
pepsia or indigestive trouble, is to eat
heartily of all the food that you find
best agrees with you, and help your d.
gestion to work with Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets.
This is a safe. certain. scientific, re-
liable method of treatment, which will
never fail to cure the most obstinate
cases if persevered in.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets have a
gentle, tonic, refreshing effect on the
secretory glands of the entire digestive
tract.
digestive juices.
They contain, themselves, many of the
chemical constituents of these juices,
thus when dissolved they help to dis
solve the food around them in stomach
or bowels.
They therefore quickly relieve all the
symptoms of indigestion, and coax the
glands to take a proper pleasure in do
ing their proper work.
They coax you back to health.
No other medical treatment of any
sort nor any fad system of Culture
or Cure" will give you the solid, per-
manent curative results, that will
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
Write for a free Book of Symptoms
#. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
Tucin Cuto6 All Right.

Chicago, Dec. 26.-The report that
the Union Pacific railroad company
was experiencing great difficulty with
the Lucin cutoff of that road over
Great Salt Lake, Utah, was emphat-
lically denied here by Julius Krutts-
chnitt, director of maintenance and
.oDeration of the Hartman lines.
There has been no serious sinking re-
Gently of the grade on the Lucin cutoff
except the usual subsistence of any
newly constructed line" said Mr..
Kruttschnitt. 1.-THE bank at Rambo
and everywhere else in Great Salt
lake is up to grade and we are ship
ping away tools and outfits as fast as
we can, reserving only enough in case
of further sinks. We had some ordi-
nary settlements this week, but not
enough to delay trains except on De
cember 20, when there was delay
of 40 minutes to one of our passenger
trains''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Rock Island Gets ImpOr-
tant Mail Contract.
Gets In On Haul Kansas City to
Pacific Coast.
SANTA FE MONOPOLY.
Competition for Mail Business
Cut Off 6 Hours From Trip.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
I'm Railroad Circles.

A mail contract has just been en-
tered into whereby transconunehtai
mail passing through the Kansas CITY
gateway to the Pacific coast Will De
carried by the Rock Island Hereto
fore the Santa Fe has had this con-
tract The mail passing through
Kansas City for the extreme western
points costs the government fully ST.
100000 a year. Just what proportion
of this business the Rock Island Will
get is not known, but it is said to be
a considerable part of the traffic. The
contract is the result of a. sharp strug-
sle between the Rock Island and the
Santa Fe railroads. resulting in the
cutting of the time of transcontinental
passengers trains fully six hours ana
in the esta bhshment of several new
trains.
Heretofore the mail coming from
the territory east of st. Louis and from
the Atlantic sea aboard, passing through
St Louis, has ben compelled to lie over
in Kansas City. The daily mail is de-
lfvered in Kansas City by the Missouri
Pacific at 1880 a. m in tralnloads OF
seven cars and hith erto that portion
of the mail destined for Southern Pa
cific coast points has laid over about
six hours. The evening delivery from
St. Louis is by the Wabash arriving
in Kansas City at $3.50 y. M and has
hours
Beginning last week the Golden
State limited of the Rock Island leaves
Chicago at .. m. instead of p. m,
arriving in Kansas City at 1880 a. m,
in time to pick uD the transcontinental
mail from the Missouri Pacific and
take it west at 1O:4O.
To make the night connection the
Rock Island announces that its morn
ing California train will leave Chicago
at $40 a. m, arriving in Kansas City
at 1850 p m, picking uD the trans
continental mail from the Wabash.
The time of this train from Chicago to
Los Angeles was heretofore IS hours
To checkmate this the Santa Fe put
on a new transcontinental train. leav-
ing Chicago at the same time but
making the trip in ~ hours. The cut
of six hours was met by the Rock
Island. Both morning trains out of
Chicago will divide the mail coming
to that city from the east between the
time of the leaving of the early morn
ing trains and the leaving of the two
trains in question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26

position at Duncan, 1. T., for the same
road, will be transferred to Hobart.
The amalgamation of these offices
for the two roads was done some time
ago, when it was announced that these
roads would combine their interests
in the Territory. At the same time
announcement was made here that the
roads would build a $150,000 union
depot in this city. This object, how
ever, has not yet been abandoned,
and may be done some time in the
near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
NIaintain separate Ticket Omoes-

Oklahoma City. Okla, Dec. 26.-An-
nouncement has been made from the
Okiahona city offices of the Rock Is
land that, beginning with .Tanuarv
the joint stations of the Rock Island
ana Frisco at Lawton and Hobart will
De separated 1t has been decided that
II VIII De more advantageous for both
roads to maintain seDarate sta+ioy's
h H Gray, who has been the agent
Tor the Rock Island at Medford. will
De transferred to Lawton for that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
The Road of Anthracite.

Lackawanna railroad. Best route,
Chicago to New York-three elegant
through trains daily:
Leave Chicago 1925 a. M, arrive
New York $3.50 next day.
Leave Chicago 2:30 p. m, arrive
New York 1880 p. m. next day.
Leave Chicago 9:15 p. M, arrive
New York $50 a. m. second day.
High back seat coaches. New Pull
mans, dining cars, observation cars.
Ask any railroad ticket agent, OF
write GEO. A CULLEN,
Gen. Western Passenger Agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
FATHER OF TWENTY-ONE.
Sells Out to Two of His Children and
Retires From Business
Sheboygan,

Sheboygan, Wis, Dec. 26.-After
forty years in business in this city
Joseph Schmitt. father of the largest
family in the city, has sold out to two
of his twenty-one children and retired.
Mr.. Sch mitt is 80 years old. The fam
lily of Mr.. Schmitt has long been IA
nous for its size. OF the twenty one
children, sixteen are living. Mr..
Schmitt has been at the painters trade
for the past fifty years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
FIRST DIRT THROWN.
Santa Fe Begins Work on Owasso
Extension.

Tulsa. I. T, Dec. 26-Grading on
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's
new line from Owasso, I. T., to Tulsa
commenced Saturday at noon. The
contractors, Kincade Bros, turned the
first dirt four miles north of the city.
The line is a part of a southwestern
extension of the Santa Fe, it is said
to care for business in Texas and the
great Southwest, and the line will be
built to Albuquerque, n. NJ, through
Shawnee, Oklahoma City and other
important points.
1t has been announced the Santa Fe
would either build west from Amarii-
10. Texas, or from Owasso to Albu-
Querque, and while the former is the
short route, the latter traverses a bet
ter country and is free from heavy
grades.
Either route will do away with the
heavy grades occasioned by crossing
the Glorieta mountains of New Mex
leo The object of the extension is to
get sort line from Kansas City to
California. The road gives Tulsa its
nth competing line. The grading
and the track will be in from Owasso
to this point in sixty days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
Rankin in Role of Honest Endeavor

The Las Vegas Optic says: A. S.
Rankin, the special train insnectoI,
who has been travelling up and down
the Santa Fe line in the honest en-
deavor to place the responsibility
somewhere for the provoking and
sometimes unnecessary delay of pas
senger trains. is a brother of Mrs. p
{. Carpenter of Las Vegas. Mr.. RAN
kin was at one time chief clerk to the
general manager of the Santa F. but
ms neaIth rallied him, and he went out
to California to recuperate it TTnon
his return to Topeka, not caring par
ucularly for the sedentary life of the
once. the position now so tellingIy
LlIled oy MN, was expressly created
for him, SO the story goes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26

Children eat, sleep and grow after TAX
ing HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
Brings rosy cheeks, laughing eyes, good
health and strength. A tonic for sickly
children. S5 cents. Tea or tablets. Cat
lin Drug Co.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-09-20

Dear Aunt Jennie Shall we send
our girl to boarding school? The
answer depends On several considera-
tions-the object of her education,
the value of the school in helping to
accomplish this object, and her as
sociations. The aim of the average
girls education is to fit her for do
nestle social life. Contentment and
usefulness are possible without
any special talent, but the broadest
and fullest lives are those for women
with many accomplishments.
We know that the advantages are
limited in the country and small
towns and the girls must look else
where. If she associates with only
n group of people, her growth is
naturally the same as theirs. Hers
is one of those rare natures If she
aspires to climb higher than they
have climbed. Their opinions and
prejudices are hers as well. With
new friends and new surroundings
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-09-20
MRS. MARY L.
Religious Selections.

Dear Aunt .Jennie:-I wish to
"pass ON for the benefit of Progress
sive Farmer readers a few nuggets
of gold from my religious reading.
"Many people have an indefinite
idea of what is meant by Spiritual
Life. This is a good definition: A
life in which God and thoughts of
duty are supreme. When Nicode-
mus came to Christ he was pervaded
with the idea that right doing con-
sisted in outward things. Christ
struck at the heart of his error by
teaching the necessity of the birth
from above. Such birth gives Spiri-
tual Life, and Spiritual Life leads to
the doing of right things because
they belong to such life. Something
like this is the meaning of Spiritual
Life. as we use the term. 1t means
conscious nearness to God. 1t means
obedience TO the law of God, because
the life of the man is in harmony
with the life of God. 1t means keep
ing the Sabbath with JOY, because
the heart rejoices to do Gods will
and come into communion with him
through Sabbath-keeping. 1t means
Joyous service, not a burdensome
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-09-20

and serve him with a perfect heart
and with a willing mind; for the
Lord searcheth all hearts, and under
standeth all the imaginations of the
thoughts; if thou seek him, he will
be found of thee; but if thou for
sake him, he will cast thee off for
ever" / Chron. %: g..
.'To examine its evidence is not
to try Christianity; to compare and
estimate it's teachers is not to try
Christianity; to attend its rites and
services with more than Mohamme-
dan punctuality, is not to try or
know Christianity. But for one day
to have lived in, the pure atmosphere
of faith and love to God, of tender
ness to man; to have beheld earth
annihilated and heaven opened to the
prophetic gaze of hope; to have seen
even more revealed behind the com
plicated troubles of this strange,
mysterious life, the unchanging
smile of an eternal Friend, and
| everything that is difficult to reason
solved by that reposing trust which
is higher and better than reason-to
| have known and felt this, / will not
say for a life, but for a single blessed
hour, that, indeed, is to have made
| experiment of Christianity"
""Truth' was one of the words
often on the lips of Jesus. The Cos
| pei is a message to the intellect. as
well as to the heart. It appeals to
the reason as well as to the affections
or the conscience. It throws light
upon the problems of existence.
."The heart of Jesus Christ was
close to the great heart of humanity.
He felt every throb and impulse that
beats in the human heart. The Son
of Man was tempted in all points like
as we are. The forty days in the
wilderness was a transcript of human
life. It was temptation gathered
up, focused and poured forth with
all the arts of hell. But he came
through the furnace without the
smell of fire upon his garments"
M. E. F.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-09-20
Aunt Jennie's Letter.

Mary talks about the girls and
boarding school, but no one has said
a word about the boys and boarding
school. / guess it is because boys are
independent and energetic and lack
the temerity that so often affects
their sisters. / want to tell you boys
that everything in this life depends
on you individually. You can be a
manly man or you can be a vagabond,
just as you prefer. You are a free
agent and the result of YOUR choice
will be known of men for you can not
fool all men even if you have fooled
yourself.
Don't go to school believing that
you know as much as those who will
endeavor to teach you. IF you know
that much, you had best not go at
all but apply for a professors place
and show wour diploma from the
worlds school, and see how your
knowledge sells.
Make up your mind before you
enter school that you will abide by
the rules of the institution know
ing hal they were formulated for
your well-being and always to your
interest as a student. The love of
liberty is innate in the youth of
America, but is too much liberty
conducive to perfect scholarship ?
Your liberty will come with your
diploma and then you will be old
enough, and / trust wise enough.
~ appreciate it's advantages and dis
Advantages. No boy can study and
play at the same time; either one
or the other must GO. Of course
you need exercise and must have it.
but let it be of the right kind and
remember to play in such a way that
when it is over you can forget it and
think of your lessons. / hope to
hear from some of our boys and
girls who have entered college this
fall. We should be delighted to
have you join our Club. We have
several students on the roll already,
but the more the merrier, you know
AUNT JENNIE.