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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30

There is no possible comparison be-
tween the ball served up by Jack
Chesbro and a few other pitchers last
season, and the ball we face when it
is raining. Only a small portion of
the sphere is dampened in the spit ball
delivery. usually the space covered by
two fingers.
"By grasping the ball in another
place the pitcher can go back to the
regular delivery. But when the ball
is wet all over-sticky-it can't be
curved much, and the pitchers resort
to change of pace, either hurting the
ball or sort of showing it toward the
batters. No, the spit ball was dis
tinctiveIy a recent creation, and it was
a very clever one"
The proposed rule combining Strikes
to the space between the batter's
shoulders and waist would kill the
effectiveness of the spit ball, accord
ing to CAMEL, but he does not favor
such a rule.
eff pitchers are sharp enough he
says, -to invent ways to fool US give
them the credit, I say. If the batters
can find ways and means of solving
the mysteries give them the credit"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
HE WAS ANTI-TWEED.
Captain Ezra Smith, Who Died at Sa-
lima, Helped Down the Ring

Salina, Kan, Dec. 3O.-Captain
Hamilton Ezra Smith, aged IS years,
died at his home here Wednesday.
Short funeral services were held here
today and the body was taken to Phil
adelphia for interment by that of his
wife. He acquired the title of captain
by acting in that capacity on a Mis-
sissippi steamboat before the days of
railroads in the west.
Captain Smith was also an inventor
of note. While captain of a steamer
he invented a machine that would bind
cotton in a round bale. He was also
the first man to make use of the prin-
ciple of forcing water through clothing
to cleanse it, and he held patent on
the first washing machine built A
laundry machine is by far the most
important of his inventions. In the
patent office at Washington there is
nearly one whole room taken uD with
things he designed.
Captain Smith lived in New York
city and was one of the committee of
citizens who succeeded in overthrow
ing the famous Tweed ring. He had
been living in Salina for the past four
years with a niece.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
- ~ N on every
Always, Remenber the Full Name
I axafIXe Bromo Ouinine
Cures Cold In One Day, Grip in 2 Daya

win the widder's hearth"
"You bet you kin! I'm leadin' the
percession in tryin' to win her, and
it's dollars to cents that we yoke up.
Is she to hum do you happen to
know ~
"She's to hum and in good speerits.
was talkin' to her half an hour
ago. AS nigh as 1 kin remember she
said that red-headed, lop-shouldered
men was barred out, but mebbe L mis-
understood her."
"Of course you did. Why, man alive,
men like me are bein' chased all over
the kentry by all kinds of women, and
are quoted at so per cent. premium.
The wilder Skinner will grin all over
as she sees me open the gate"
Forty rods further down the road
encountered a second man. He had
his shoe off to remove pebble, and
his appearance proved that he had
walked far and fast. When we had
said hello to each other and had
pulled up he asks:
stranger. it may be that you have
CHANGED to hear of a wilder woman
around here named Skinner"
Eyes, 1 have. She's Twin about
three-quarters of a mile back. May
take it that you have bizness with
'FYou kin, old boss, and it hain't
lightnin' rods nor patent churns, eth
er. Yes, sir, I have straight bizness
with the wilder Skinner. Do you hap
pen to know what sort of a man her
choice would be for second husband?"
LAS her old man only died last week
your question rather strikes me as bein'
previous"
'Cut it out!" he shouted. 1.-THE man
or wilder who expects to get ahead in
this kentry has got to be on the git.
I've got a stiff knee and my toes turn
in, and some folks have found fault
with my face, but it's dollars to cents
that bear off the prize"
1 told him of the red-headed man in
advance, and he was off on run be-
fore 1 got through Speakin'. A quarter
of a mile further on 1 met No. 3. He
was an old man of 20, walkin' with a
cane and stoppin' frequently to rest,
and as he looked up at me in an APP
ITS only mile further on to the
wilder SINNERS, and she's expectin'
you"
man and one who is takin' a last
chance he replied. I'm over 70 and
purity near a wreck, and I want some
one to coddle me UP. I heard about the
wilder Skinner day before yesterday,
/ and I've walked "a miles to ask her to
be mine. Is there anybody ahead of
me?"
only two. and if you hustle you can
beat Them
He went away with a hobble and his
back bumped up, and durin' the next
ten miles I encountered eleven more
candidates for the widder's hand and
sent each and every one forward with
and kinds, from the beardless youth to
the venerable grandfather, and have
no doubt she found the man her ro-
mantle nature craved for and promised
to make him happy At any rate.
felt that had done my duty towards a
Teller mortal, and realized more than
ever the truth of the sayin' that he who
makes otners Joyous Is joy unto him
Clure.)
g. L. Dickinson. Hartford. Conn.
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WRONG IDEA.

Dent get the wrong idea into your
head that starvation is good for Dys-
pepsia.
It's not.
Those who have not studied the sub
iect very deeply, or with trained scien-
tific minds, might think so.
But facts prove otherwise.
All specialists in stomach and diges-
tive disorders know, THAI it is best for
dyspepsia to be well fed.
Why. dyspepsia is really starvation
disease.
Your food doesn't feed you.
Py 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 di-
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.
They gently force the flow of fresh
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 tC 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 viii
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
Write for a free Book of Symphonic
IL A. Stuart Co, Marshall. Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
PILGRIM JOE.
He Meets Up With a Widow and Sew
eraI Other Folks.

I was hummin' my happy hum as I
drove along the highway between the
enterpriSin' towns of Happy Day and
Gone to Seed, and thinkin' how much
better it was to be an upright man
with $3.50 in my pocket and a clear
conscience than to be mayor of Chi
cago, when come along to the cabin
of squatter and observed a buStlin'
woman around the front door. 1 halt
ed to call her attention to the fact
that I took tintypes at 10 cents a take
and sold Pilgrim Pain Alleviator at rs
cents a bottle, and she came forward
and said:
Stranger, you behold in me griev-
in wilder woman, and my bereave-
ment is too recent to permit me to
turn to bargain sales"
''Then I take it that your husband
has departed hence?" queried in re-
You kin so take it."
(which may either mean that he
has run away or gone dead?
Correct you are, and 1 orter have
been more partickler in my statement.
1t so happens that my dear Homer
died in his bed in decent way.
though make no doubt that he would
have run away from me long ago if he
hadn't been afraid to try it on. Yes,
stranger, I'm a lone wilder woman,
and if you see me sheddin' tears I'll
ask you to excuse them under the
circumstances"
"Oh, certainly! Did you say the de-
ceased was prepared for his end?"
mo, didn't say SO, but know he
was In fact, he had been wishin'
for death for a whole year back, and
when he found the shadder DRAWN
nigh he smiled and looked happy. Elk
cuse my emoshun."
AS her emoshun consisted in whis-
tim a few bars of yankee Doodle"
promptly excused it, as any gentle
man would, and continued:
"Can l take it that the deceased was
a long sufferer from consumption or
other incurabIe ailment, and was thus
glad to have the end Gomez"
mo, 1 wouldn't take it that way If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30

you may, ma'am. You may take
it that I shall say you are fair
lookin', evidently kind-hearted and a
hustler, and that if the right sort of
man comes along a prize awaits
him. That's one O. my failin's, ma am
I'm allus willin' to obleege."
"You-you-?" she stammered, af-
ter lookin' me over more keerfulIy.
Il couldn't ma'am, bin already
married two or three times. I'd like
to- but you see how it is ?''
Yes. I see, and I thank you for
your good intenshuns. There's an
other question: My old man was laid
away only last week-just a week ago
today. Is is your opinion that I'm
hustlin' too soon 2"
'-They ginerally waits at least three
weeks, ma am, but bein' winter is close
at hand, and bein' you are two miles
from the nearest naybor and lonely
for human society, there may be ex-
ceptions in your case. In fact,
should say there was exceptions"
''That settles it with me- she re-
piled after another whistle, "and you
that Pilgrim Pain AIleviator of yours
would stop this gnawin' of grief at my
heart-strings %
cit has done it in thousand in
stances, ma'am, and it will do 1t in
yours. It acts on the heart-strfngs
like rosin on those of a fiddle. Half
an hour after takin' the first dose
you'll be singin' and dancin'."
I sold her bottle and wished her
good luck and bid her goodbye, and
I hadn't gone over half a mile when
run across a red-headed, lop-shoul-
dered man of forty who was comm
along in the middle of the road. He
held up his hand for me to halt, and
when / had done SO he said:
Stranger, mebbe you kin tell me If
am on the right road for the wilder
Skinner's?''
Its around the curve and straight
ahead replied, but you seem to
have caught on to the wilder bizness
with a rush"
"Oh, dunno. Her old man died a
week ago, didn't hep"
about a week ago. May I take 1t
that 1t is your tntenshun 10 try aad
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HARD To BELIEVE.
Story That Will Interest Smokers, Told
as Though it Were True.

A well known farmer, says an east
ern exchange, fed his horse by mistake
a quantity of poultry food, thinking it
was stock food, and the mistake was
not noticed until the horse had
scratched up half the garden and
showed signs of wanting to set.
While this sounds a little fmprob-
able, yet one of the clerks at George
w. Stansfield's, 632 Kansas avenue,
tells a story akin to it. He has re-
Gently secured the agency for Wads-
worth Bros Chicos. a cigar that sells
for sc, but is the equal in quality of
any 1Oc cigar, and in fact is preferred
by many smokers. He induced one OF
their customers who had never smok-
ed anything but an ordinary sc cigar
to try a Chico, with the result that he
now wants high grade goods in all
lines
Don't buy a Wadsworth Bros Chi
COS because it is cheap; buy it because
it is good, because it is a clear long
Havana filler, because it has a high
grade tobacco flavor and a delightful
aroma. because it's the best cigar you
can get for solid enjoyment-and
there is a satisfaction in feeling that
you are getting all this for 3 nickel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
BRITT MAY BOX WHITE.
Californian After English Fighter
Gossip of the Ring.

New York. Dec. O.-Indications
point to an early meeting in the roped
arena between Jimmy Britt of Cali
fOrnia and Jabez White of England for
the lightweight championship of the
world. In a letter to a friend in this
city Britt writes that he will probably
select White as his next opponent as
soon as he arrives in this city. The
Yankee champion desires to confer
with Charley Mitchell. Whites Amer
lean representative, before definitely
committing himself in regard to a bout
with the Englishman.
If Mitchell, on behalf of White,
makes satisfactory terms, there is
every likelihood of a battle between
the lightweight champion of the Uni
ted States and the best 135 pound
pugilist in Great Britain.
White and Britt would undoubtedly
make an interesting battle that would
attract the attention of followers of
pugilism all over the world. Britt
realizes that White is the only light
weight whom he has not beaten and
who has never met defeat Victory
for Britt over the English champion
would greatly enhance the Califor-
mans standing as n fighter and give
him indisputable possession of the title
Of lightweight champion of the world.
White, according to Mitchell, is the
cleverest fighter of the smaller type
that England has ever produced. He
8 a tWo-handed ngnIer, Oelng able TO
use the right hand as we'll as the left.
He has a very effective Iefthand jah
that has contributed considerably to
the defeat of all the lightweight box
ers in Great Britain who attempted to
take the championship from him.
Mitchell says he is a much more
scienticflc fighter than Britt has ever
met. and a meeting between the rival
champions of the old and new world
with the gloves, Mitchell believes
would be the greatest ever seen be-
tween little men White Will agree to
fight Britt within ten weeks after arti-
Giles Of agreement are signed If Britt
desires side bet White will agree tn
any reasonable amount the Yankee
may name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
X. p. IN SESSION AT CARBoNDALE
Second District Pythians Hold an In
terestlng Meeting.


Carbonate. Kas., Dec. 3O.-The Sec
ond district annual convention of the
knights of Pythias was held in K of
P. hall in this city on Wednesday, De-
cember %, the object of the assem-
blage being to promote the general
good of the order.
The evening meeting was called to
order by District Grand Chancellor
O Brian, who with a few pleasing in
trOductory remarks presented Grand
Chancellor George w. Culver, of Con-
cor1ia. the principal speaker of the
evening. Mr.. Culver took "Pythian-
ism and Fraternity for the theme of
his discourse and denvered an elo-
quent, impressive and highly enter
tanning address. Past Grand Chan
celIor L. Britton followed with a short
but interesting talk, combining his re-
marks to subjects pertaining to the
welfare Of the order, after which the
grand lodge degree was conferred
upon a class of twelve past chancel-
lors.
Several important features of lodge
work were brought up for considera-
discussion by the convention.
The work of the evening finished,
the visitors were banqueted in A O..
U. w. hall by Pythagorean lodge No.
1TS, of Carbonate, covers being laid
for 125 people. The convention was
The following lodges were repre-
scented: No. II. Emporia; No. "a,
Usage City; No. as. Scranton; No. 81,
Quenemo: No. los, Burlingame; No.
&C. Burlington: No. SIS, Eureka; No.
2O4. Elmdale; No. 1o6, Council Grove;
wood Falls; No. 226, Madison; No. so,
Dunlap. The district is composed of
Morris, Chase, Greenwood, Coffey,
Usage and Lyon counties.
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two men at Lane. Averin was per-
mitted to go because of sympathy for
the immediate wants of his family
Fearing arrest, he fed to Des MOines,
and was subsequently arrested there
on a charge of securing money under
false pretenses at Osawatomie. Since
his return here, however, it has been
found impossible to get positive evil
county officers are ready to turn him
over to Franklin. Descriptions of the
man who passed the forged check at
Davenport's and who tried to pass one
at bursts indicate that Averill, instead
of Woods, is the man, though Woods
appears to be positively connected
with the forgery and swfndling at
Lane, with which he is charged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
BURKETT GOES TO BOSTON.
He Is Traded for Stone, the Hard Hit
ting Outfielder.

Boston. Dec. 30.-President Taylor
of the Boston Americans closed a deal
yesterday with the st. Louis Americans
for Jesse Burkett, giving Outfielder
Stone and a money consideration for
the Grab
Burkett came to this city and signed
a contract. saying that he was de-
lighted with the change, although he
had a great liking for Manager Nc
Aleer. This will give the champions
four seasoned outfielders in Setback,
Stahl, Freeman and Burkett, and it
behooves the boys to keep in condition
to play their best ball next season.
President Taylor also received word
from Jesse Tannehill, saying that
terms are acceptable, and that he
would sign as soon as he received a
contract. President Taylor says he
will leave no stone unturned to win the
championship for Boston next season.
He is still figuring on picking up one
or two more good ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
SAYS AN AUTO" DID IT.
The Wife of a Kansas Farmer Sues
Two COneyviIle Men for Injuries.

Independence. Kan, Dec .30.-Mrs.
Calista J. Brock. by her attorney, A.
B. Clark, has brought a suit for 49,
900 damages in the district court
against George and William Francis,
officials of the Coffeyville Brick COM
pany. Mrs Brock is the wife of a
farmer living near Cherryvale. She
alleges that as she was driving May IL
she met an automobile driven by the
two men and that they refused to give
her the road or to use any caution in
approaching her. with the result that
her horse was frightened beyond con-
troll She says it dashed down the
roadway. colliding with an eighteen
foot pole, smashing the buggy and
throwing her to the ground with such
violence that she has been disa bled
ever since. She sues also for $1,000
for medical attention and SASS for
damage to horse, buggy and harness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
The Gun Exploded.

CORTLAND, Dec. 3O-Leroy Pitcher
met with a very serious accident at the
home of his stepfather, John Sweeting,
Wednesday morning. Shooting at SPAR
rows near the house, with an old shot
gun, the boy was the victim of an over
loaded gun and his left eyelids were
torn from the middle of the eye to the
temple leaving the eyeball exposed but
apparently uninjured. He was prompt
ly brought to town and Drs. Snider and
Steuart dressed the wound and at last
reports the lad, who is only eleven
recovery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
A KANSAS SLAYER IN OHIO.
Lewis Jones, Wanted in Coffeyville,
Surrendered in Cleveland.

Cleveland, Dec. 30.-Lewis Jones, a
negro, who is wanted in Coffeyville,
Kan, on a murder charge, gave him
self up to the police here yesterday
and will be taken back to that place
for trial. Jones said that the murder
was committed in March, 1903, and he
fed at that time for fear of being
lynched. Jones was locked up. A dis
patch from Coffeyville confirmed the
story that he is wanted there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
AFTER THE FoRGERs.
Having Trouble to Locate RESPONSE
biIity at Ottawa.

ottawa, Kas-. Dec. 30.-The officers
have had a call to go to Paola and
secure Lyman Averill, in Jail there
awaiting prosecution on a charge of
forgery Averill is the brother-in-Iaw
of Woods. who is now in Jail here on
the same charge. The day that Woods
was arrested at the joint home of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
CAMEL DIsAGREEs WITH ANsoN
Says "Spit Ball. and Sphere Wet b!
Rain Are Not the Same.

South Bend Ind, Dec. 30" Papa
Arson shoots wide of the mark when
he speaks of the so-called spit ball
and the ordinary wet ball-a ball
soaked with rain-as one and the
same thing" said John CAMEL of the
New York Americans, who is trying
to buy a Central league franchise.
II doubt very much if Arson ever
batted against the spit ball delivery.
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football coaching in two months would
pay the yearly expenses of the biggest
university of the land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-30
Headaches From Colds.

LAXATIVE BROAfO OIJINIRE, ra
the cause To get the genuine cali for as ss
full name and look for the sfgnat,Sr. me
e. W. Grove sc. "a
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JOHN w. CORCORAN,
Death of Prominent Massachusetts,
Man in New York State.

Clinton, Mass, Aug. "A dispatch
from Liberty, n. Y, announces the
death there. early today, Of John w.
CorcoraE of this town formerly a jus
;ice of the superior court and for many
years a leading Democratic politician
of the state. The cause Of death was
throat trouble.
Mr.. Corcoran was born in Batavia.
Monroe county. N. V. in 1853. and was
4 graduate of Holy Cross college. Wor-
ccster. ST. Johns University. New York
city and of Boston University law
school. He practiced law in Clinton and
was for years associated with Attorney
General Herbert Parker.
Mr.. C"rcoran was delegate to the
National Democratic convention in 1884
and in 1855. He had been candidate
Tor attorney general of the state and
Tor lieutenant governor on the Demo-
cratic ticket. In 1892 he was appointed
Judge OF the superior court but resign
ed the following year. When the Lam
caster National Bank Of Clinton failed
i'm 1856 through defalcation. Mr.. Cor
coran was appointed receiver. A fami-
~ survives him.
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A TOTAL LOSS.
no Hope of Saving the. Wrecks
Steamer Mcnohansett.

Salem. Mass. Aug. 4.-The excursc,
steamer Monohansett of tie Norh
Shore Line, which was used as ds.
patch boat by Gen. Grant in the Ciya
War and which went ashore on Misan
island during a dense fog, Wednesda,
afternoon, will be a total loss.
After the passengers We're removed
If safety, late in the afternoon. an e..
animation of the steamer showed that
she was not leaking and it was though
size could be foated at high wate.
carly Thu sday morning. During the
night. however, water commenced ID
pour in and a daylight investigation
showed that the vessel had struck O,
big rock and had pounded so badly
mat great hole had been knocked m
her bottom. Her back was broken. the
hull was full of water to the hurrican,
deck and her machinery was knocked
cut Of place.
The tug Elsie with lighter went to
the scene Of the accident, early Thurs.
cay, but it was found that it would BE-
impossible to save the steamer.
The Monohansett. which has been on
this line only since Sunday and which
made trips between Boston, Salem WI.
lows ana Gloucester, ran aground Oa|
Ten Pound island, Sunday, but slid on
with no damage except a broken pad.
Gle wheel. The steamer was built a,
New Yo.k in 1862. She was ia feet
long. IS feet beam ana registered i9|
tons gross. 3i7 tons net. Local Oh.
Gals of the line were unable to state
her value.
Later in the day, Col. William Stop
ford, manager of the Beverly Tram.
Iortation Co. owners of the steamef
said she was valued ut about sl2ee
and was insured for half that amour
1t is believed there will be considp
able salvage.