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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-09-10
UNITED STATES sENAToRsHIP.

We congratulate the people of Nevada upon the
awakening of her prosperity in field and mine,
and that the hour is struck which closes guar
ter of a century of State depression, That the
dawn has begun o. new era wherein this COM
monwealth is destined to take high rank in agri-
culture, the industries and mining New leaders
are called for to represent in Congress this new
spirit of State development For the Senate of
the United States the Republican party presents
the name of Hon. George 5. Nixon, as an able,
true and loyal citizen worthy of such choice, Ia
miliar with and interested in the varied indus
tries of our State and who is the first candidate
for that supreme Office presented by Nevada
convention i'll the past twenty years who is bona
fide resident and citizen of Nevada, and pledges
the efforts of the Republican party to use all hon
orabie means, and the votes of its members in
the State Legislature to secure his election.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-09-10
lust a M0ment, Please!

Why notlet The Royal Tailors of Chi
cago make your fall suit or overcoat?
When delivery is made, there will also
delivered a direct guaranty covering
the quality of goods, the style and TT
Of the garments and the workmanship.
Andthat guarantyis worth one hun
dred cents on the dollar to you. 1t
means that you are to be satisfied with
the garments when you get them
satisfied that they were eremadeexpresSly
fot' yo@, to your own measure-and it
means that they will wear well, give
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-09-10
No. 81.

of industry It is the trusted ally of both capital
and labor; for capital in the things which are
essential to the successful government of enter
hours at the highest wages consistent with the
successful conduct of business. In this State it
favors eight hours labor upon all public works
and as the legal work day in mines, quartz mills
and smeters, and will uphold legislation giving it
nroner and eOuitahle force and effect
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-09-10
INVITATION TO SILVER REPUBLICANS.

Recognizing the fact that many of the most pat
riotic and progressive citizens of the State of
Nevada have for several years past cast their bale
lots against the Republican ticket because of their
disbelief in the financial views of the national
Republican party, although being in accord with
it upon all other principles of party policy, we
now, view of the fact that there is no issue be-
tween the national parties upon the subject of
finance cordially invite all such fellow citizens to
renew their political fellowship with and to
share with in the glories of our certain victory
at the coming general election.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-09-10
STATE INSTITUTIONS.

We favor the economic conduct of the State
government the generous treatment of the or
phan wards of the State and the humane care OF
the insane. We are justly proud of our public
school system and the State University and will
favor ali reasonable propositions calculated to inn
prove their efficiency and usefulness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

of which will be added to the export
supply. The mills do not now exist in
Canada for reducing it to -four, and
they must either be built or the grain
must be sent to Europe for grinding.
But for the duty it would pour into the
United States to give needed employ
nnent to the mills of the northwest and
add to our export trade in flour. 1t
would not in the least matter to US
whether the flour from the imported
wheat went into the domestic or the
foreign market. The effect would be
the same for our industry and trade,
and it would be wholly beneficial.
What would be the effect upon the
farming interest? The price for Cana
dian wheat and Minnesota and Dakota
wheat alike will be determined by the
surplus for export and the demand
for it in Europe. 1t is made lower at
the grain fields by the. cost of transpor-
tation, but if it is to be ground into
flour before it is exported the mills
give them an immediate market. 1t is
worth as much to the manufacturers
as to the traders in grain. If the farm
ers are unable to supply the mills with
wheat they need they may exact
slight advance in price for time; but
it cannot go far or last long, for the
millers cannot afford to pay and the
wheat will go abroad unground to COM
pete with that of other countries. The
farmers can get little benefit at least,
but the millers may suffer serious in
jury. If. Canadian wheat ca re in free
~ its effect upon donsAstic prices would
not be felt, but its relief to the mill
ing industry and it's benefit to trade
would be substantial. Wheat is drib-
bling over the border to find a market
on this side, but it is not paying the
duty The demand for milling pur-
poses leads to smuggling, which it will
be hard to prevent. In the meantime
in order to get wheat to grind Mime
apolis mills are becoming bonded ware
houses of the government under official
1t is a barperous system
of which the country ought to be
a Shamed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
MANUFACTURING FLOUR IN
RnNn

IF'rom the n. Y. Journal of Commerce.
The disadvantage of the absurd duty
on wheat is illustrated by the exped-
lent to which the largest flour manu-
featuring concern of Minneapolis has
been driven of applying to the govern
ment to bond one of it's mills and ele-
vators in order that it may grind
Canadian wheat and export the product
This could not be done by the simple
process of buying the grain in the mar
ket in the regular course of business on
account of the duty of twenty-five cents
a bushel. 1t would not pay, and the
wheat must either be ground in Canada
or sent abroad for the purpose, unless a
drawback of the duty can be obtained.
In order to get that the grain, the
grinding and the flour must be put I'M
der government supervision, to give
assurance that none of the wheat is
used to make flour that stays in the
country. The elevator used in deliver
ing the material and the mill employed
in grinding must be put under bond and
in practical charge of a government
agent, and kept quite separate from
those engaged in producing for the do
nestle. This makes the business more
expensive and less profitable than it
would otherwise be, but it is the only
way practicable for carrying it on at
all under the present drawback law.
What would be the effect if there
were no duty on wheat? In 1901 our
own production was over 74S, 900 900
bushels; in 1902 it was $40, 900, 900, and
last year about 63S, 100000 We have
been exporting from 100, 600 600 to 2OO,-
600. 00OO bushels either in the grain or in
the form of flour, with a constant in
crease in the proportion of the latter.
The milling industry has grown in pro-
portion to the requirements for the do
mestic ana foreign markets. The crop
of last year being the smallest since
1900, and that of the present year fall
ing to the neighborhood of $50. oOO. 900
bushels. it is evident that the mills will
have too little to do if confined to do
nestle material. An unusually small
part of our own production of wheat
can be exported in any form. In the
Canadian northwest a region of wheat
production is undergoing DEVELOPMENT
which promises to be prolific, but which
this year will supply not over so, 000, 600
to 100000 bushels, the greater part
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

buildings, more professors and larger
attendance than has Washburn. Kan
sas is proud of its big university; it is
a school which ranks high among the
universities of the country, and it Of
fers to the young men and women of
Kansas a chance to obtain an educa-
ton at the expense of the state which
is as good as any education which can
be obtained in the east.
But on the other hand. it is childish,
and shows the rancor of jealousy. for
the University to try to belittle Wash
burn. Washburns rapid growth is
something which seems to hurt K.
us feelings, and inspires it to say
some unkind things about the Topeka
school. But Washburn's growth is a
good thing for the state, and it is not
going to hurt X. U. a bit. There is
always room for a big college outside
of the state control, and Washburn
seems to have the necessary location
and advantages to occupy this position.
why wouldn't it be a good plan for
K. U. to quit saying spiteful things
about Washburn. and Washburn to
warm I'D a little more toward K. u,
and each help the other toward the
education of the young people of Kan
sas and the upbuiIding of the state?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Clio

[From the Atchison Globe.l
A man can't have a very big time
by himself.
The meanest trick possible is to un-
justly abuse a worthy man.
Don't apologize to worthless loafer
because you favor the peace and de-
cency policy.
We have noticed that the people
who boast most of their ancestry are
those who don't live UP to it.
Occasionally you see such a homely
woman who has married that the situ-
alton demands an explanation.
Start out in the morning with a
strong, healthy resolution to be good,
and you will find it walking lame by
noon.
Whenever we see woman walking
up the street with several children
and a valise. we wonder who is going
to draw her.
Late this afternoon three women
had found clue to a girl who Is
looking for a place to work out and
had put on gum shoes and started in
pursuit.
A girl will say mean things about
engaged, which she will not permit
him to even remember after they are
married.
They say that an Atchison res
taurant man was seen locking up the
other day, and he was asked where
he was going. 81 am going home to
dinner" he answered.
We always like to see an advertise
ment like this: For Sale-A good
secondhand shot gun" It is a sign
that another young man has settled
down to business.
The explanations of Admiral Rojest-
vensky in regard to the firing on the
defenseless fishing fleet, sound Kelly:
they don't start from anywhere, and
don't reach anywhere.
There are old men in Atchison who
work away cheerfully, with one foot
in the grave. Poor old devils; they
are better men, and entitled to more
credit than they ever received.
Women go into boarding houses
with the excuse that they can't find
help. How about the men who don't
close up heir places of business be-
cause of the same problem?
We are glad that we don't belong
to a woman's club, having a notion
that this winter will witness the COM
piling of many articles on the Worlds
fair from Literary Point of View.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Hen egg sized hail stones are still fall
ing at Industry.
A Lebanon cabbage was too big to go in
a candy pail, so the owner ate it.
Rice county has nine newspapers and
the boys will organize a county editorial
association.
An ancient mariner shot an albatross, a
sea gull or some other ocean bird at Ell
Dorado this week.
The blue ribbon beet of the season was
raised near Cherryvale and weighed 10
pounds on reliable scales.
Volunteer wheat and the Hessian fly
is the sole bar between Rice county farm
ers and complete happiness
Mr. Shivvers is a Cowley county candi-
date but the election will probably be
warm enough to thaw him out
Havensvi1le editors are being treated to
12-pound beets and second growth straw
berries by genial subscribers
Garden City is to furnish a spanking
machine to its schools. Brass-bound
rulers have been found too severe.
An Abilene butcher has killed a beef
with three we'll developed kidneys. OF
course Cyrus Leland is responsible.
Mrs. Cobb Of Detroit is suing for a d.
vorce. Her husband thinks her charges
go against the grain and is fighting the
The latest habit of the giddy Chanute
girls is to take farmers horses and bug
gies from the hitchracks and spin around
town for a time.
Pfttsburg women and girls ran down
and captured a Jack the Peeper" the
other night while the men folks were
away at their lodges
Two Arkansas City gentlemen have
placed 500 each the results in Zen
lucky. In the blue grass state election
money IS used in treating
The snap OF a Waterville man this week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
C0NsCIENCE OF KANSAS.

Is the public conscience in Kansas
duIled, or is it sensitive over questions
of right and wrong? The next ten days
will decide. BY that time the people of
Kansas will have passed upon ques-
lions involving the integrity of the COM
monwealth; they will have demonstrat-
ed whether they desire to right wrongs
or condone iniquity. They will have
proved whether or not Kansas is shame
less.
only a few months ago a United
States senator from Kansas was con-
victed of a crime and the finger of the
nation was pointed at the Sunfower
state. The country asked Whats the
matter with Kansas?' that she should
have elevated such a man to a place of
responsibility, honor and power. The
people were loud in their denunciations
of the man who had misrepresented
them in Washington and who had
brought shame upon his commonwealth
Now one of the political partners and
personal associates of this same
man is asking the highest office of
financial trust in the state OF Kansas,
after having been tried for two years
and found wanting. 1t has been alb
solutely proven that he has taken
money from the state treasury and kept
it for more than a year. Sworn testi-
mony has been produced that he loaned
$123. 900 of state money to assist bond
broker to carry through g. deal by
which the state was grossly swfndled.
And this man now asks to be reelected
so that he can carry on his populations
for another two years. His friends are
asking support for him on the ground
that if he is finally convicted he will
resign and another man win be appoint
ed in his PLACED
Three other state officers have been
shown to have taken $12S,OO0 of the
sacred school fund of the state and in
vestedit in bonds worth far less than the
price paid for them, thereby enabling a
bond broker to clear over 81, 900 on tho
deal. 1t is plainly evident that If these
men are not actually corrupt, they are
at least criminally negligent and
inefficient as public officials. In either
case they are not worthy of the sup
port of any citizen of Kansas who has
the welfare and integrity of his state
at heart.
President Roosevelt has said that it is
not the exposure of corruption that is
shameful to a commonwealth. but it is
the inclination to condone and cover up
wrong doing that is to be condemned.
1t is the Roosevelt idea that integrity
is the first consideration in a public
official. 1t is the Burton idea that a
public office is a private graft. 1t is
the Roosevelt idea to root out corrup
ton and incompetency wherever it ap-
pears. 1t is the idea of some Kansas
Republicans to condone and cover up
corruption, especially when it is in
your party.
Will Kansas stand by the Roosevelt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

The knock at the kitchen door was
strong and decisive and not bit
shaky. The hand that made the noise
was large and brown and strong
strong as the arm and the man be-
hind it. The mans shoulders were
broad and he was large and strong. He
could do a good days work any day
in the week, If he wanted to. He was
well enough dressed for warmth If not
for style.
When the door was opened he looked
straight at the man of the house. He
might be going to ask If the place was
for sale or If there was any work to
be done but he asked neither ques-
ton.
could get something to eat?" was
the question which was spoken in
way which sounded as if the question
er did not expect negative answer. or
if he did receive such he could go to
the next house and be successful.
Yes, he could have something to eat
if he would take what was handy to
prepare for him.
"Beggars are not choosers, sir" he
said with that same straightforward,
Would he take it with him or eat it
there? Well, which ever suited the do
nor best.
SO he sat down at the kitchen table
Yes he needed a bath and a shave
hut still he was not the worsa for
wear and looked better than many
country. His face was not stolid. He
looked to be of average Intelligence
and perhaps a bit above the average
depending upon the locality in which
the average Is struck.
Couldn't he find work?
Well, he found work in Chicago, but the
landlady at the boarding house demanded
pay for his board in advance, and he did
not have the cash, so he had to refuse the
job and look elsewhere.
That was his Chicago excuse. Evident
ly he was not q resourceful man or he
would have held the job and satisfied the
landlady in some way.
FROM chicago ne went 10 kansas S Cl,f,,
because the employer there who offered
him work paid a few cents day under
the union scale and you know II would
not do for him to work for less than the
That was his Kansas City excuse. He
left there and bummed his way to To-
Couldn't he get work here? Well, he
was machinist and the only place for a
machinist in Topeka was at the Santa Fe
shops, and, as strike is on there, of
course he could not go to work there and
of course a machinfst could not do any
other kind of work.
That was his Topeka excuse.
Where was vas, he GOING Going f,l ITO, to beat;
fields. He hoped he might find work
there.
ladies in Texas to be any different than
those In Chicago about pay in advance for
board? Would he work in the Texas oil
fields for 10 cents day less than the I'M
ion scale? Would he work where strike
was, had been or ever might be? Would
he take any kind of work or would he
continue to beg and bum his way?
Then he tried to tell a fearful story
ABOUT his wife dying a couple OF years ago
up he just couldn't stay any where, but
had to roam and he didn't have the heart
to work. That story fell fiat.
Sherlock Holmes deduction would be
that he is lazy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
GLIMPSE OF YOUTH AND AGE.

We wish we were so young that we
could be frightened by holes cut in a
pumpkin and a lantern stuck m
Atchison Globe.
Why and to what purpose? OF course,
it is altogether probable that the author
of the paragraph wrote merely to make
copy appropriate to Halloween and the
season of jack-o'-lanterns. But so
much is written and said along the
same lines by middle-aged people in
passionate regret of youth that the
philosopher is moved to wonder. We
hear so much about glorious youth
young people are bored by ire
quent references to it and the oppor-
tunities which are supposed to slip by
with it--but there is another side to
the question. Youth has its ills and its
agonies, too. Who. remembering them,
would willingly return to them? Who
would deliberately choose to go through
it all again-the passion, the longing,
the discomfort, the misery, the unrest,
the weary irnpatience of that golden
spring time of life" To be young
enough to be frightened by 1aek-o'-
lantern-why, that means young enough
to have Group and whooping cough and
measles and chickenpox and mumps
and sights and snubs and hulniliations
and quarrels and disappointments and
loneliness and disillustions and debt and
puppy love ahead OF you! Really, aren't
gray hair and false teeth and wrinkles
preferable? Especially as in the latter
case you know at the worst. it can't last
much longer?
OF course you don't leave all your
troubles behind when you leave youth
behind. There is always dyspepsia,
death and the devil. But to be young
would mean to face the prospects of en-
during all the sorrow and discomfort
you have already known with the trou-
bIes and vexations of middle age and
old age still before you. Besides much
of the unhappiness of youth gives way
to the ataraxia of sophistication and
experience Andrew Lang expressed
the idea very aptly in his Ballad of
Middle Ages
Our youth began with tears and signs,
Our M it verses se ali We're we're threnodies;
In elegiacs still we whined.
Our ears were deaf, our eyes were blind;
We sought and knew not what we
sought;
we marvel. now we look behind:
Though youth turn sickly pale and dies,
To mourn for youth were not inclined.
We whistle where we once repined.
Confound the woes of human kind!
BY heaven! they're well deceived I
wot,
Who hum, contented or resigned.
Life's more amusing than we thought"
The Joys of youth Chocolate and
fudge and the two-step. The longer
one lives the more clearly one comes
to see that in this life the most one
can hope for is contentment and con-
tentment and youth are never con-
comitant circumstances. If man had
his choice between the ages of forty
five, with a possible twenty-five years
of grief ahead of him, and twenty with
half a century to suffer in, would he
be wise to choose the latter?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
ToDAY,s FOOTBALL GAME.

This is the day of the biggest foot
ball game to be played this year be-
tween. two Kansas colleges. Washburn
and K U. will meet for their annual
battle on the Washburn field.
Why not make this game the occa-
sion for a change in the feeling be-
tween the two schools? It is all right
to have college rivalry. and college
spirit, but the system of absurd hos
tility which has prevailed for the past
year or two between K. U. and Wash
burn makes both Institutions a laugh
ing stock
As the institution supported by the
state. the State university has great
advantages over any UNCONVENTIONAL
school, and it probably has better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

Medical Talk: Much is said and
written nowadays about cultivating the
memory. Schools have been estab-
lished for the purpose of teaching
memory culture. Individuals are
taught to train the memory so that
they may be able to retain impress
sions. remember the names of people,
the date of different events, recall past
experiences. and SO on. and so on. All
a very good thing. A good memory
is necessary to success. business and
social. A well-trained memory is a
very useful faculty to possess. 1t not
only makes smooth the way of its
possessor but 1t is so much capital
stock to his credit. But with all our
memory training we should also learn
the. art of forgetting. Perhaps more
of US need to learn how to forget than
TO learn how to remember Forget
ting can be learned just as easily as
remembering, but it requires exactly
the opposite kind of training. Even
learning how to forget the things we
should forget win help us to remem-
Der the things we should remember.
The things that are unpleasant. the
things that irritate, the things that
make us feel bitter and unkind-these
are the things we should forget. the
things we should discard and Danish
to absolute forgetfulness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.l

IfTom tne NEW 1OrK FFess.I
Christian Science is good to cure you
Of something you haven't got
1t is pleasanter to sit on pins than
to wear the heels women do, but they
like 1t.
There are lots of ways to make love,
but not nearly enough to satisfy the
average girl.
1t is very smart of a woman the way
she can pretend she is dressed when
she is in evening clothes
A man could smoke mighty good
cigars with the money he spends try
ing to get less enjoyment in other
ways.