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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15

her SlumDeT viii
be and how TO
freshed the
morning will
find her. But
it's another
thing for the
sick woman 20
feel tired out.
Rest only seems
to Increase her
suffering. She
feels acutely
the aching back
and throbbing
nerves.
Sick women,
hundreds Of
thousands OF
them, have been
made well by
the use OF DIR.
Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription.
IL establishes
-. 4. H.. Nrfna
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15
Three Phy.ic,ans Treated Him without
Success.

w. l.. Yancy, Paducah, Ky, writes:
~ had severe case of Kidi ey disease
and three of the best physicians In
Kentucky treated me without success.
| then took Foley's Kidney Cure. The
first bottle gave immediate relief. and
three bottles cured me permanently.
gladly recommend this wonderful
remedy W. l. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15

If you have indigestion do not let an
other day go past without taking Celery
King for 1t. Druggists sell il, ~ ssnts-
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15
TIRED OUT.

There's many a wife sits in the growing
shadows of an evening, knowing what
It is to feel tired out; as II there was
But II healthy she knows how sound
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15
WHY WE HAVE
D MEN.

All Faculties Not 9u.h. emily Exer-
cised Is OLC .,-4 %.
Faculties must be Led or they
Will not grow. Mature j., 20 good an
economist to allow keep any
faculty or function ~. ne do not
employ We can hay At what we
use. and that will cons al; increase;
everything else will re gradually
taken away from u A. an becomes
strong and powerful ahi broad just
in proportion to the e. tsat Ind health
fulness of the activt ~ = faculties;
and 1t must not be uAk~, not an
exercise OF one or /, ,0a9sr IS or one
set of faculties, or th,eyN will topple
over. Balance In life comes from the
healthful exercise of all the faculties.
One reason why we have SO many one
sided men In this country is because
they pursue one idea, exercise one side
OF their nature, and, of course. they
cannot retain their balance. This is
one Of the curses Of specialties. They
are good thing for the race. but
death TO the individual who pursues
his specially at the expense of the de-
velopment of the all-around man.-O.
s. Marden In Success Magazine"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15

No one would ever be bothered with
constipation if everyone knew how
naturally and quickly Burdock Blood
Bitters regulates the stomach and
bowels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
JAYHAWKER lots

Ottawa is the first town to put out
| hammocks.
An Emporia firm claims to have blue
grass seed for sale that was bred in Old
Kentucky.
The biggest rat killing of the season
seems to have been at Beloit. A count
of the victims showed 428.
Arkansas City is in a bad state of
affairs The electric lights and the
booze have been cut off.
Beloit. usually a modest and unas-
Stunning town. springs flood story
about 20 foot rise in the Solomon be-
fore breakfast.
Salina is going back to the short
grass" regions The big NAPLES that
have stood for years in the court house
yard are being cut down.
If these suicides and murders keep
UP in Topeka it might be well to get
chief of police who has some other
ideas than chasing jofntists.
Hutchinson hunter took a wagon
load of goods and went several miles
down the Arkansas. The next morning
he went back after his guns
An Ottawa hen has passed under the
wire with six young chickens. That old
bird should have a pension and a back
yard full Of blue grass for the rest of
her days.
The Baptist members at Parsons gave
81, 600 towards repairing the church the
other day But here's betting every
lady member will have a rain coat or a
spring hat just the same.
a Burlington woman has sued a
farmer for 2,13O back wages. she claims
due her as a farm laborer. Every day
since June, 1894, she has gone afeld
with the o'clock whistle.
The present legislature has been so
strenuous that a boa-constrictor winter
ing in a local show quarters committed
suicide. Nothing ever happened under
Leland and Pringle's reign like that
A Mcpherson lady fell down the stairs
and broke her left arm. The right one
had been broken a few days before
Still she can be thankful that her an
Iles are safe and her appetite not i'm
haired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
TO BUILD A REFINERY.
New Work. Financiers in Conlmunica-
ton With Chanute.

Chanute. Kas., March Post
master McClelland of this city has re-
ceived the following letter from
member of big syndicate OF fnan-
ciers in New York, as folloWs-
II now expect to leave here at once
for Topeka to look over the situation
fully If can secure a proper under
standing of the states intentions, the
cash is available to build a large re-
fnery. As to location, that will de-
pend upon circumstances. Chanute
is all right and a good place. Sew
eral towns in the district have already
made offers by wire of lands and cash
donations. A large refinery means
considerable to a city; in fact, it could
build city of itself. The employ
nent of so many men for the manu-
facture of the by-products, the opera
ton of the cooperage, canning works,
ETC., would be sufficient to establish
fair sized community, so care must be
exercised in locating the same. But,
as / said before, all depends on the
state. The convict labor does not
sound we'll with capitalists, for the
state can make oil and sell at cost and
with convict labor knock independent
refineries out of existence. I would
be glad to hear from you"
The name of the writer is kept
secret for obvious reasons Mr.. Nc
Clelland has written to his CORE
Chanute, meet the local oil producers
and the citizens generally, and state
his propositions, assuring him that he
will find the people of this city ready
to talk business
In regard to the state refinery prop
osition. Mr.. McCleland took especial
pains to correct the wrong impression
which prevails in the New Workers.
mind. He told them that it was not
the intention of the state to enter the
refining business upon a large scale,
and that the employment of penal
labor to a limited extent such as was
intended was necessary in order to in
sure the constitutionality of the act
establishing the refinery. He also re-
ferred to the fact that when the spe-
cial committee of the Kansas legisIa-
ture visited the only Independent re-
finery in the state-that of G. D. Web
ster, at Humboldt-to learn whether
the proprietor would lease it to them,
the proprietor showed his faith in be-
ing able to compete with the state UNI
der the protection of proper rate laws
by refusing to consider any PROPOSE |
ton to lease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
SAND OF THE DESERT.
The Wind Sports With 1t and Works
Curious Effects.

AS mysterious, as uncomfortable, as
treacherous and entertaining as the
vast ocean which lies only a few leagues
west of its borders, is the great sea of
sand which forms a large portion OF Cal
ifornia's greatest desert, known, because
OF its proximity to the river OF that name,
as the Colorado desert.
This desert is the winds favOrite play
ground. He comes over the mountains
from ploughing the mighty deep, ana
works strange fancies in the pliable sands.
He duplicates the great pillows OF the
turbulent ocean; he initiates the ripping
waves OF the placid sea; ne carves ana
builds and plays at artist, sculptor and
geOmetrician. When he becomes weary OF
his sports Ire lashes himself to fury and
losses the sand mile high in the air
whirling and hurting the particles till he
obscures the sun and brings sunocating
darkness to the land.
On the east side of the desert he is at
present busy engulfng a railroad. Al
ready he has buried many Of the tele-
graph poles which stand along the way,
and he has INVADED the right OF way OK
the road, and the company IS busily fight
ing to hold possession until a new line,
which is being built around the intruding
hills, shall be completed. Then the rolling
pillows of sand VIII be allowed to sweep
on undisputed
In the southwestern portion of the same
desert is another range of travelling hills.
These are more wonderful, however, than
the ones which are menacing the railroad,
for upon these hills the wind has practiced
his skill at carving geometrical figures.
hills Each is the shape of a true cres-
cent the points of which are toward the
east. nil which is 50 feet high is found
to be 100 feet thick at the base and 20 feet
from point to point of the duplicate horns
of the crescent. If a hill Is twice that
height its other dimensions VIII be found
to have doubled also. Little and big they
keep their proportions as they move slow
~ across the plain-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01

dollar I've got in each bank, and We
are to say nothing about that. It's a
little idea of me own. In other words,
should one bank bust up I've still got
money in two others, and am not re-
juced to poverty. Ye may call II little
idea, me frind, or we may call 1t an act
of prudence"
ITS prudence, I take it, Mrs. Nc
Glory. None Of US can ever tell Whin
bank is going to bust up wild a bang
Its a sinsible woman ye are, Mrs. Fin
nigan. and I'll be after sinding out the
growler whin we have had our talk out
As for f1ourishing the bank books about
when 1 go out, that's me plan. 1t gives
the impression that 1 have been to the
bank or are on me way there: Whin
enter street car the first impression
made on the passengers is that I'm dress
ed as a lady After they have seen me
bank books the next impression Is that
I'm lady. wild the long green. a lazy
may be a lady wild only nickel in her
pocket, but its much nicer to be lady
wild thousands behind ye.
rninnt ts.i and give en- the nassengers the
rise up, nod coldly at the conductor to
skirts and moulding up me head, sail down
the aisle and slide off into a Snowdrtft or
a mudpuddle il such a daybunaire man
ner that every woman left Dchlnd will
turn green wild envy, and every man will
draw such a long breath as to bust his
suspenders. And are We understanding me
position in this matter, Mrs. Finnigan?"
Pm sure I do, Mrs. MeGlory. It's that
der all circumstan but if yen pardon
me I'll mention one thing ye seem TO have
passed by"
''Ye may say oh, me frind."
It's that We have no gold in your front
teeth. It's the belief of thousands and tins
of thousands that no lady can be a real
lady widOut it,
Right We are, Mrs. Finnigan, but did
we ever see me wnin I was walking out
and playing the lsdy?"
'Niver that L remember
IF We had We wouldn't have put them
q Instead nj n a
dentist and having a smatteIing of gold
pounded in between my teeth 1 takes a
bottle of the gold paint ana a brush and
puts two thick coats of the right color on
every tooth in me head. and when I deign
to smile at the lady ora the opposite side
of a street she thinks she is looking
into the mouth of the biggest gold mine
in America. That coating of gold is good
run down to the butcher shop and get
trusted for a pound of sausage on me
teeth alone. "-(Copyright, 1905, by T. c.
McCIure.t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
BOMBS AS ORANGES.
Large Shipments Have Been Made
Into Russia.

ST. Petersburg, March Vast
quantities of hand bombs are being
imported into Russia. The discovery
was accidentally made by the customs
authorities at Wierballen. Russian
Poland, on opening an ordinary fruit
box marked Oranges" which was
found to contain a hundred small
bombs. Scores of similar boxes have
been coming in for weeks and the
authorities say they are already dis
tributed.
The bombs are not of the type of
those used by the terrorists. They are
more like hand grenades, and it is
thought possible they were intended
for distribution among the strikers as
weapons with which to fight the
troops. The efforts made by the po-
lice to locate the plotters have as yet
been unavaiiing. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01

A NATION OF COFFEE DRINKERS.
The figures of the worlds production
OF coffee in the coffee year 1864, which
has just reached the bureau of statis-
tics. show that the coffee exported from
the various producing countries Of the
world, and therefore the quantity enter
ing the worlds markets during that
year. was, in round terms. $3.50 million
pounds. or barely double the
quantity brought into the United States
alone during the calendar year 1904.
The United States consumes practically
one half Of the coffee entering the
worlds markets, since our importa-
tons of coffee in 1904 amounted to about
one-half of the coffee exported by all
the coffee-producing countries OF the
world. and more than 81 per cent Of
that Importation was retained in the
United States for consumption by her
people.
That the United States exceeds by far
any other nation as consumer of cof-
fee is therefore apparent. Some figures
just received by the bureau of statistics
gives some details of the consumption
by the principal countries, though the
last period covered in this statement is
the calendar year 1902. This shows for
that year a consumption by the United
States of $50, 272. 900. pounds of coffee;
Germany, $50, s2o. 900 pounds; France,
1s8, 760, 600 pounds; Austria Hungary, &c.
$4,000 pounds; Holland. $500. 900
pounds; Belgium, 70, SOC, 900 pounds;
Sweden, 57,420,O00 pounds; Russia, 49,,
100000 pounds; Italy. 35.64O.000 pounds;
and Great Britain. 80. $40. 600 pounds.
Coffee consumption in the United
states has increased rapidly during re-
cent years. The importations in the
calendar year 1904 were larger than
those of any earlier year, and the per
capita consumption was also larger
than that of any earlier year with the
single exception of 1902, in which year
the per capita consumption exceeded
that of 1904 by two-tenths of 1 pound.
The bureau Of statistics In its state
ments upon this subject shows the
of coffee imported, exported,
and the consumption per capita il. each
OF the decennial years from 1880 to 1850
and annually from 1850 to 1904 sum
marizing this table the consumption of
coffee in the United States was, in $780,
less than pounds per capita; in 1870,
. pounds per capita; in 1850 Sc pounds
per capita; in 1860, SIS pounds per cap
tia; in 1870. 6 pounds per capita; in
1880. SO pounds per capita. and in 1890.
IS pounds per capita
In 1897 the consumption for the first
time exceeded 10 pounds per capita. the
figure being, for that year, 1912 pounds
per capita; in 1888, 116s pounds per
capita; in 1902, 1882 pounds per capita.
and in 1904, 1854 pounds per capita. The
figures for all of the years above men
toned relate to the fiscal year, except
those of 1904, which are for the calendar
year ending December 81, 1904, thus
the statement down to the
very latest possible date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
THEY'RE COMING TO KANSAS.
Eastern Newspaper Men to Investi-
gate Oil Situation.

Representatives of eastern publica-
tions are coming to Kansas thick and
fast now. Among today's arrivals are
Mr.. I. F. MarcOsson, one of the editors
of the Worlds Work, and Harry Hall,
Washington correspondent of the Pitts
burg Times. Both are here to write up
the oil industry in Kansas and the fight
with the Standard.
Mr.. Marcosson stopped in Washing
ton on his way out from New York and
had a talk with Congressman Phil
Campbell and Commissioner Garfield
relative to the Standard Oil inquiry.
On reaching Topeka today he had a
talk with Governor Hoch about the
Kansas oil situation and lunched with
the governor. He will remain here
few days and then go down through the
oil fields. Mr.. Marcosson visited kan
sas last summer in gathering material
for a. harvest story
Mr.. Hall is one of the "old-timers"
among the newspaper correspondents at
the national capital. His home is in
Pennsylvania His paper, the Pitts
burg Times, is of course interested in
the fight Kansas is starting with Stand
ard Oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01

A lively campaign against railroad
rate legislation has been inaugurated
by its opponents and doubtless will be
prosecuted vigorously throughout the
summer with the hope of defeating ac-
ton At the next session of congress. It
Is understood that there is to be no ac-
ton by the present congress. Every
Few days brings to the newspaper Off
ces some pamphlet against railroad
rate regulation by congress. The plans
Of the men who have devised this pro-
gramme are, however. liable to go
wrong For while they are carrying
them out the friends of the Esch-
Townsend bill are not likely to be idle
The chief of these is the president of
the United States and he is pretty GER
tain to view the idea of killing that OF
some similar measure in the next cen
gress. as well as in this, with the great
est disfavor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
LOCAL MENTION.

Three blocks of excavation have been
done by the workmen in the employ OF
This will doubtless be construed by the
city council as sufficient work by the
company to hold its franchise which
was to have expired today unless con-
structive work of an active nature
should have been done. The active work
will now cease for a time The matter
will come up before the city council
for action next Monday evening
The Second Ward F'lambeau club will
hold a meeting tonight. This meeting
is being held for members only and not
of a political nature
Mrs. L. L. Barney, of 1923 Sixth ave-
nue., east who was taken seriously i'll
with appendicitis last Friday, is much
better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
MRS. McGIoRY's TALKS.
She Discusses Further Events with
Mrs. Finnigan.

And is it you, Mrs. Finnigan 2"
said Mrs. McCslory, as she answered
rap on the door and found her
ne1Ghbor standing there.
Yes, it's me, Mrs. McGlory, and if
you haven't got an at home or a high
tay en- hand III come in and sit for
aWnlle. There's more talk going on
IN Dinnison's Tiniment, and mebba
you'd like to hear bit of it?''
And what are they saying now.
Mrs. F1nnigan? Not that I'm inter-
ested in the talk of the parvenew, YOU
know, but that I'm for sitting down
70 rest me aching back a few minutes
ana Will listen to your chatter. Is it
me they are discussing some more ?'
II IS, me frind. They are sayin'
that you feel yourself too good to at
una Alderman Raferty's annual ball.
at which there is always as much free
beer and sarsparilly as the ladies and
glnts can get away wild. For siven
successful years you and your man
rat nave attinded that ball and been
carted home on WheeIbarrOW or so
the story goes, but this year We are to
give 1t the cold shake. That's one of
the Things they are talkin' about, Mrs
McGlory, and 1 thought I'd drop in
and see if it was all a lie.''
So that's the talk is it? I was
waiting and expecting that there's be
Cabling about it. Now, thin, listen
to me and get the rights of the story.
Its true that for the last siyen
ball. but Pat whit because of the free
beer and whiskey, and I whit because
1 wanted folks to know that there
was one real lady in the Sixteenth
ward. If ye were ever at one of them
balls, Mrs. Finnigan, We must have
seen the stately way I swept upstairs
and across the ballroom. Ye must
have noticed that I looked neither to
the right nor left. Ye must have seen
the stiffness of me back and the cold
ness in me eye, and that whin 1 sat
down on the bench and folded me
hands everybody for tin feet around
me had shortness of breath. Niver
a woman has dared to ask me how
much I paid a pair for me stockings.
and niver a man has dared to crook
his elbow and ask me to skip the
light fantastic toe, as Shakespeare
puts it, Even whin Alderman Raj
ferty himself has come up to shake
hands wild me and ask after me health
he has been received on the tips of
me fingers, and retired wild chills
creeping up and down his back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
I.r. Jordan talks of Mrs. Stanford.

Stanford University, Cal, March l.
DIR. Jordan, president of Stanford
university said today:
1.-The sudden death of Mrs. Stanford
has come as a great shock to ali of
US. She has been so brave and strong
that we hoped for her return we'll
rested and that her last look on earth
might be on her beloved Palo Alto.
But it was a joy to her to have been
spared so long-to have lived to see
the work of her husbands life and
hers firmly and fully established.
Hers has been life of the most per-
feet devotion to her own and her hus-
bands ideals. If in the years we
knew her she ever had a selfish feel
ing no one ever detected it. All her
thoughts were of the university and
of the way to make it effective for
wisdom and righteousness. No one
outside the university can understand
the difficulties in her way in the final
establishment of the university and
her patient deeds of self sacrifice can
be known only to those who saw them
from day to day. Some day the world
may understand a part of these. 1t
will then know her for the wisest as
well as the most generous friend of
learning in our time. 1t will know
her as the most loyal and most de-
voted of wives, who did always the
best that she could do. Wise, devoted,
stead fast, prudent patient and just,
every good word we can use was hers
by right The men and women OF the
university feel the loss not alone OF
the most generous of helpers, but OF
the nearest of friends"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
POINTED PARAGKAPHs.

EFrom the Chicago News
A busy milIer's life is one continuous
grind
Revenge is a gun that kicks much
harder than it shoots.
PoIiteness is the freezing point in the
atmosphere of love.
Wise is the woman who refuses to quar-
rel with her dresSmaker.
A girl likes a promising young man, but
others prefer one who pays cash.
A man seldom gets into hot water I'M
less he furnishes the fuel to heat it.
Men make themselves ridiculous by
claiming to be what they are not
After a girl has celebrated the TWEEN
ty-fifth anniversary of her birth she
stops seeking an ideal husband and
begins to look around for real one.
Nothing worries a proud woman like
the pride of some other woman.
Illusions of courtship are more pleas
ing than the decisions of matrimony-
woman doesn't enjoy good health
unless she has few ailments to COM
plain Of
OF course you are all right. but your
next-door neighbor needs a lot Of re-
forming.
A woman's idea of economy is to buy
a lot of things she has no use for be-
cause they are cheap.
A woman is SO impatient when her hus-
band keeps her waiting because she was
so patient when she kept him waiting be-
fore they were married
Blessed is the woman whose husband
can always find his slippers exactly
where he left them.
An old bachelor says the worship of the
fair sex is the most expensive form of
worship known to mankind.
a woman hates to see her first gray
hair come almost as much as her nus
band hates TO see his last one go.
A woman will tolerate a lot of neglect
II her husband VIII only pay her some at
tention when there are other women
around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
WORKING ON TAXATION.
House Takes Up This vexing Ques-
ton Today.

This afternoon the house has again
taken up the problem Of taxation.
There are five bills on the special orders
for today-the house bill, the senate
bill and three bills supplemental to the
house bill.
The house having decided at its last
consideration of the tax question that
it favors the house bill providing for
county assessors, the senate bill was
not in the discussion to any great ex-
tent. A few unimportant amendments
were made to the house bill.