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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
TO TAP COAL FIELDS.
Rock Island Said to Be Planning
Entrance to AtchisOn-

Horton is very much excited over a
rumor that the Rock Island win build
from Kansas City through Horton, and
thence to the northwest, says the Atchi-
son Globe. simultaneously with the re-
port comes the announcement that the
Rock Island will build a forty-stall
round house at Horton, which is look
ed upon as part of the plan. A prom
inent citizen of Horton learned the re-
port at Topeka, where Rock Island
plans are generally Matched. The talk
IS that the line will run through Mus
cotah, Effingham, and in a direct
course to Kansas City. That would
take it over the hills, where the grades
would be objectionable. 1t is more
reasonable to suppose that the Rock
Island is contemplating the use of the
Missouri Pacific from Pierce Junction
to Kansas City, via Atchison- Traffic
arrangements are the order of the day
in railrOading. 1t is well known that
the Missouri Pacific cOntemplates a
double track between Atchison and
Kansas City, in which event it could
take care of the Rock Island. Shortly
after Ben WinchelI was made president
of the Rock Island, he wrote that he
would visit Atchison as soon as pOssi-
BILE, on a matter of interest to the city
and his company. In ten years the
Atchison coal field will be the largest
in the west, which is a matter the Rock
Island is not likely to overlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.

Iron the Atchison Globe.J
Some men look as neglected as an old
grave.
We never saw a man whose pants were
not frayed at the heels.
If a mans opinion is not asked by the
second day, he will break in.
No woman is SO much in love with a
man that she cannot get over it.
Every farmer we meet now is carrying
a fresh almanac in his overcoat pocket
If you keep a new resolution only day
it has done you at least a days worth of
good.
If rabbits were good to eat the pack
ing houses would handle them. as they do
quail.
There is the same saneness about love
boarding house
wakes up almost every morning with a
million dollar scheme
When a boy comes home from a mill
has no show.
They say the old fool is the worst fool:
still, we old fools know some young ones
that would be hard to beat.
It looks funny to see a little thin man
pay the dryEoods' bill Of his big. fat wife
1t must take so much goods to cover her.
The most industrious fnfidel we ever
knew was a member of a church, and
Joined after he was 40 years old, when his
views were well known
An Atchison man who has eczema. in
two places has two physicians. To one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
TRUE RELIGION.
what It Costs the south.

If the south chooses to be exclusive
socially and in politics IL must con-
tinue to pay the price, which is to see
population and capital go elsewhere.
The policy of voluntary isolation is
costly. A southern sugar planter is
not in favor of the removal of the
protective tariff on his product; he
will not under any circumstances vote
with the party that prevents the de-
structfon of his industry. Southern
ers think one way and vote another,
provided they vote at all. They carry
on a sort of limited political society,
to which no Republican is eligible, and
which rejects all political issues that
Republicans put in their platforms.
Perhaps it is magnificent, but 1t Is not
participation in the affairs of the
country. Missouri lands will now go
I'D in price. because a farmer moving
in will not be held at a discount if he
is a Republican. The south Will not
attract the world until its wall OF
prejudice is broken down. Its present
politics is a clinging TO spent tradi-
lions, a complete shutting out of in
telligent judgment on live issues as
they arise. do Republicans favor
it?'' is the southern question. IF so
then we Will none Of it."-Globe-
Democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

Once more the farmer has been the
backbone of the nation says Henry
Clews in summarizing the business of
the past year. In spite of a short wheat
crop, our agricultural products were
valued at $4,000 ,O00, 900 by Secretary
Wilson Of the department of agricul-
ture. compared with 81. 4s0. OO0, coo in
1903 and s., 742, 900. 900 in 1899. There was
an increase in both quantity and val
ues, wheat excepted, which places the
American farmers and those dependent
upon them in a position to spend and
enjoy more than for many years. But
prosperity has not been confined to the
farmers. Our mines are turning out
immense quantities Of iron and copper
to meet present demands, and our mills
and factories, with few exceptions, are
well employed. Northern cotton mills
suffered from the speculation in cotton;
also from competition with southern Ia
Dor But this seems to be the darkest
spot in American industries. and the
real marvel has been the rebound in
steel from "pauper'' to prince" Dur
ing the first quarter OF 1904 this great
industry was so depressed by reaction
from the boom period that production
of pig iron fell to the rate Of l. O08 600
tons per year. Now 1t is back again
running at the high record rate OF 49,
100000 tons per year. and would exceed
that rate were it not for the scarcity
of coke. Today we are producing pig
iron faster than Great Britain Ger
many and France combined. Our cop
per production is also surprising the
record, and il fully 10 per cent greater
than in 1903.
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RECOMMENDS PAY
SUpt. GeroW Would Place En-
pIOyment Agents on Salary.
Thinks Compensation Would
Serve to Increase Efficiency.
FOUND 1O,OS7 POSITIONS
A Total of IL, 459 Applications
Have Been Received.
Annual Report Filled With Gov
ernor Bailey Today.

T. B. Gerow, state agent of the
free employment bureau, today filed
with Governor Bailey his annual re-
port, showing that since the establish
ment of the bureau 11,459 applica-
lions for Jobs have been filed, and
10.OS7 positions secured.
He recommends that all the local
agents of the free employment service
be put on a salary basis. This would
create a large number of new jobs
for somebody to dispense. At the
present time, the law requires the
clerks to act as employment agents
without any additional compensation.
In Topeka, the election commissioner
only ones on file that are complete.
Mr.. Gerow's plan is to have these local
agents appointed by the mayor and
confirmed by the council
Mr.. Gerow would also make It a
mtsdemeanor for anyone to use the
name OF the free employment bureau
or any similar name, for the purpose
of deceiving job seekers. He further
recommends that the state agent be
allowed a stenographer during the
rush of work in spring and summer.
In view of the fact that the state
auditor has recommended that the leg
islature practically abolish the Office of
free employment as separate inStitu
ton, the annual report this year is Of
unusual interest as showing what work
it has been doing.
Mr.. Gerow explains some of the de-
fects and difficulties as follows:
Although this bureau has been es-
tablished for near four years and much
has been written about it and distribu
ted all over the country, the people of
this state do not seem to know that it
is a free institution where both work
and help can be had for the asking.
THE agents report that lack of BUSH
ness is due to plenty of work and that
men make their own contracts without
applying to them. It is my opinion,
however, and I so stated in my report
two years ago, that the law is defective
in not providing payment for work
done by the agents of this bureau, and
it should be amended to remedy this
defect
The report contains elaborate tabu-
lations showing in detail just how
many jobs of every kind have been
supplied and how many applications
for help have been filed.
It shows that there were, during the
year. almost as many applications for
female help as there were applications
for places by females. This is be-
cause of the shortage in hired girls.
There were only 323 applications for
male help, against. 4,282 applications
for employment.
The following is a summary of the
l 6PpT ATOMS FOR POSTTTON-S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

he has allotted a foot. and to the other
hand.
One of the funniest things in the world
is to see some one put on musical airs
while playing a mechanical piano player.
A woman believes everything her hus-
band tells her when first married, be-
cause it comes natural, and later in life
because she has found It best
Girls used to have engagements" but
nowadays they have dates" 1t is said
more dates than an almanac.
Milton Cain, a school boy, was asked
how he was enjoying the Christmas vaca-
ton. T. enjoy the nights all right" he
replied, but I have a headache every
day
There being no woman in the house. an
AtchiSon man and his son lately did tho
washing. They boiled a red tablecloth
with white clothes, and you should have
seen the result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
THE BATTLEsH1P KANSAS.
1t Won't Be Ready for Business Until
1907.

washington, Jan. Representa-
tive Murdoch by inquiry at the navy
department, has developed the fact
that the battleship Kansas will not be
completed before the spring of 1907.
The contract calls for completion by
December, 1906, but 1t VIII likely re-
quire some months in addition The
battleship is now about SO per cent.
completed. The launching and chris
tening of the Kansas will take place
when the ship is 54 per cent COM
pleted. This will be about one year
from now, it is believed.
Among those who are here in be-
half of Oklahoma statehood is Henry
E. Asp, of Guthrie, a prominent at
torney for the Santa Fe, formerly of
Kansas. Mr. Asp favorB statehood,
while most of his Santa Fe associates
oppose it.
Representative Calderhead today
returned from his Kansas holiday va
cation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

In an address before the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science in Philadelphia the other day
Prof. William H. Lynch, Of the Salem
schools, presented a forcible argument
for reform in the methods of instruc-
tion in the public schools of the coun-
try. He contended that too much at
tentiOn is being paid to textbook in
struction and not enough to actual
study Of living topics, such as are dealt
with in the press each day. The latest
advance in scientific knowledge said
Prof. Lynch, 1.-THE newest inventions
and discoveries in every branch of hu-
man endeavor are all heralded in the
dispatches. Years hence the textbooks
will as it were, embaln them in their
solemn pages. Why should the child
now be compelled to sit in darkness
with the light OF knowledge blazing all
around him through the columns of the
newspapers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

lose to New Orleans and Galveston her
supremacy as an export point re-
cent development of the railroad situa-
ton in the west promises to cut quite
figure I'm advancing this growth The
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad
has just celebrated the opening of its
double track service between Chicago
and St. Louis by making an open cut
in the rates on packing house products
from Chicago to New Orleans, offering
a reduction of about 40 per cent from
the rates charged by the railroads for
transporting this class of shipments
to the Atlantic seaboard. The Illinois
Central which has long been a DOM
inant factor in Mississippi railroading,
has met the rate, and the result has
naturally been that a large bulk of the
packing house products which former
~ went to the Atlantic seaboard for
export are now going to New Orleans.
There are two important factors in
this new movement. The Gulf ports
furnish the natural outlet for the ex-
port shipments from the great grain
and meat producing sections Of the
country. New Orleans is the natural
market point for the states of Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado and
The packing houses Of Kansas City,
Omaha, st. Joseph and ST. Louis are
yearly drawing from the trade that
formerly went to Chicago, packers re-
alizing the advantage and profit of kill
ing their live stock as close as possible
to the ranges and feeding places. in
stead of carrying it IN cars half way
across the continent. The more i'm
poEtant factor. however. probably lies
in the fact that the west and south
are now financing their own industries.
In former years New York and the
eastern money centers were annually
drawn upon for funds to move the
crops, handle the cattle shipments, and
perform all of the service in the mar
keting OF the products Of the west and
south. AS a natural result, when ship
ping time arrived the producers sent
their shipments to the east, most Of
them being necessary to discharge obli-
cations for money advanced. The men
who had loaned the money were in
terested in the railroads leading toward
the Atlantic and thus drew double tolls
from the producers. All this has been
to a very remarkable degree
within the last few years. The west
and the south ha&e their banks filed
with money seeking investment and are
able to finance their own affairs. The
financial progress of the south has been
most astonishing. For the last five
cotton crops she has received about
$500, 0o0, 900 more than for the preced-
ing five crops. The deposits in the saw
ings banks have increased 155 per cent
I'm seven years. The cotton manufactur-
ing industry has increased until her
mills take as much cotton as those of
the northern states. Her agricultural
products were valued at SITS, 600, 900 in
1890, while for 1904 they will exceed
81. 800, 0O0. 900. Her manufacturing in
terests have increased 800 per cent in
twenty years. The south is able to
care for herself. as the west has been
for several years. The growth of the
export trade through the Gulf ports is
certain to be a potent factor in the
traffic situation OF the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
NOT EASY SAILING.
Council VIII Now Go Slow With Nat
uraI Gas Franchise.

The city council is not going to fall
head over heels to grant any more
gas franchises to would-be prospective
pipers-in of natural gas. It is very
likely that the companies which ex-
pect to secure a franchise from the
city will have to put up a good sized
guarantee of their intention to really
do business. The councilmen as a
whole think that a guarantee of from
$4,000 up to $4,000 would be the
proper thing. If some sort of restric-
tive measure is not inaugurated the
council viii be swamped with appli-
cations for franchises, a good ma
jority of whom never expect to really
do anything with their franchise ex-
cept to sell them to men who are Sc
riously thinking of Putting in a nat
ural gas system.
As one of the councilmen expressed
1t at noon: IF we don't adopt some
sort of measure our time will be large
~ taken up with fOoling with these
franchises, and we can waste time and
the clty's money on the schemes of
men who are mere promoters"
It is generally conceded that a ma
Jority of the men who have talked
natural gas and endeavored to secure
negotiable paper. A franchise be-
comes a valuable piece of property,
and the investor who really intends
to give the city of Topeka natural gas
buy up the existing franchises for self
protection. To illustrate, the CONT
mental Gas company, which is now the
only gas company which has a fran
chise for natural gas, has been in the
market for the sale of its franchise
and has not pretended otherwise
and a sale has undoubtedly been
made. To act hastily in granting 9TH
ers similar privileges will only increase
the tangle which will have to be I'M
raveled when a bona fide company
starts in to do business.
The committee on streets and
walks will meet some time next week,
and at that time the franchises will
come up for report to the council
Councilman Sven dson, chairman of
that committee. said this morning:
I'VE intend to probe into these COM
panies and examine closely their in
tentions and representations before we
will consider them favorably. We will
not call a meeting this week for the
simple reason that we feel no haste
in taking up the matter of franchises
It is too productive of encourage
ment."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN
Heavy Iron Bar Driven Into the
Switch.

Wheeling, W. Va, Jan Sat Under
wood an attempt was made today to
wreck the fast New York and Chicago
express on the Baltimore & Ohio road.
A heavy iron bar was driven in the
switch with such force that it required
20 minutes work to remove it. Had the
train crashed through at the regular
rate it would have rolled over the
mountain side. There were more than
200 people on the train. The condition
of the switch was discovered by a
tracknan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

Incomplete returns of commercial in
solvencies during the year 1904. report
ed by r. G. Dun & Co., indicate that
about 1924 concerns suspended having
a defaulted Indebtedness of S141. 307, 1852.
These figures compare with final sta
tistics Of 12,069 failures and $155, IA. 1856
liabilities in the preceding year. The
mere fact that the aggregate makes a
favorable comparison with that of 1908
is not as gratifying as the quarterly
separation. which shows that the re-
turns have improved as the year ad-
vaneed. Thus the first quarter was
much the worst of the year. but still
compared favorably with the last quar-
ter of the preceding year. and the clos
ing three months contained a much
lower commercial death rate than the
same months of 1903. This means that
the depression reached its climax early
in the year and gradually disappeared,
until at the present time the business
situation is sound. There are always
failures, in greater or less degree, and
the condition of the mercantile world
is shown by the extent to which the
mortality rises above or falls below
normal. As the latest reports. covering
December and the last quarter, are bet
ter than average, the present condition
is satisfactory in so far as this barome-
ter is concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
7PLICATIONs ZOE POsITIONs-
New Charters Granted.

At the meeting of the state charter
board Wednesday the following char
ters were granted:
Aggie Oil & Gas company, Inde-
pendence, $4,000.
Fort Scott Slaughter & Packing
company, Fort Scott, $4,000.
Brookville Telephone company,
Brookville, $4,000.
Haviland Lumber & Mercantile
company, Haviland, $4,000.
Junction City Packing & Cold Stor-
age company, $4,000.
Jones Clothing company, Emporia,
$4,000.
G. W. Newman Dry Goods company.
Emporia, $4,000.
Security Oil & Gas company, Hum
boldt, $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

Home should be the place for intel
lectual exchange, where conversation is
the music of the mind.-Rev. DR.. Fred
erick D. Tower, Christian Church,
FAITH AND MARRIAGE.
Marriage is an act of faith. Faith in
each other must precede the marriage
or that marriage viii be failure.
When faith is gone, wedlock becomes a
faree--Rev. A. Biikovsky, Universalist.
Baltimore.
GOD IN OUR PLANS.
The man or woman of today who is
to play an important part in the worlds
greatest things must have faith in God.
can have no glorious future here or
hereafter.-ReV. DR.. j. T. M. Johnston,
Baptist, St Louis.
A NATIONS GREATNESS.
The greatness of any nation is not in
any sense a gift of an arbitrary Cod
The greatness OF a nation is a result
conditional upon, brought out by and
determined solely by the intelligence
and integrity of a people.-Rev. DR.. j.
E. Roberts, Church of This World
Kansas City.
PERILs OF VACATIONS.
The perils Of q summer vacation are
in ceasing all Christian activity and in
compromising our Christian reputation
by unchristian indulgences. Too often
vacation is the transfer Of our acuVi-
ties from one circle to another whose
gayety is ten times more exhausting
than our winter life.-Rev. DR.. William
Dayton Roberts, Presbyterian, Phila-
SOCIAL CONSCIENCE.
Existing evils in the social life can
be remedied only by the sharpening or
conscience, the strengthening Of char
acter. The solution of the perpleXing
problems that confront us must be
sought not so much in legislation and
the quick changes of laws as in the
gradual lettering Of the social con-
science.-Rev. Mr.. Stern, Hebrew,
Washington.
CHRISTIAN RELIGION PRACTICAL
Viewing Christianity as q whole
some message touching the conduct or
life, it is necessarily conceived under
human conditions. The Christian re-
ligion is necessarily practical; 1t would
be of no consequence if it were not
practical. Under it's inspiration the
problem is not to go from earth to
heaven but to bring heaven to earth.
The kingdom of God is within us. IL
not there, then where could it be? A
revival of religion, then, would be
strange indeed If such a revival dimin-
ished charity, as one has recently
said.-Rev. c. A. Langston. Unitarian,
Atlanta, Ga
TRUE RELIGION.
True religion is not belief in a set
of dcgmas or the recitation of a creed
or a profession of faith-these are but
the accessories of a particular atti-
tude toward truth-but it is infinitely
more than this. It is the life giving
breath of the spirit of God, which
rules not certain relations, but all COR
respondence of the heart, soul and
body with the Creator and with fell
low Inen-ReV Henry Knott Fpisco-
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Minneapolis Journal: Senator Mitch
ell of Oregon says a conspiracy has
been formed against him. Sure, WASH I
there one against Burton of Kansas
and another against Dietrich Of Ne
braska? There may be more Of them
Matching too
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PresidentiaT amendments.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The president
today sent to the senate the following
LONE e. Foote, Colorado, at Hugo. Col.
Also promotions in the army and navy.
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The pubic probably viii have little
sympathy for DR.. Chadwick If it APP
pear that he has been living in Europe
on the proceeds of his wife's question
able financial operations.
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Crnde OH CO. DOWN

Pittsburg, Pa. Jan. 5.-The Standard
Oil company made another cut of five
cents today In all grades of crude oil
except Raglan. This is the third five
cent reduction within three weeks.
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TREND oF THE ExPORT TRADE

IFrom the Washington Post.l
Statisticians have been calling atten-
ton for several years to the growth of
exports from southern ports, some of
them even predicting the speedy APP
nroach Of the time when New York viii
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

The Mormons are talking Of starting
9 rival Zion at Independence, No
Here's where they bump up against
DR.. Dowfe.
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A ship subsidy is no less objection
able when called a ''subvention.''
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LOCAL MENTION.

The Primary union met with Mrs.
Spencer. 1852 Garfield avenue. Friday
at 3 o'clock.
Mrs. A1inna Rooster WAS taken to Christ
hospital today to undergo an operation
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and the Klondike Is being tapped. not in
a spirit OF sordid commercialism. but
rather Of aItruism.-BostOn Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

Probably it viii be easier to get news
cut of Port Arthur now that nobody
viii care to hear from there
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.


AS IT nourishes away premature wrin-
kles, Satin Skin Cream makes users
glad. Use is proof. Csc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

Home should be the place for intel
lectual exchange, where conversation is
the music of the mind.-Rev. DR.. Fred
erick D. Tower. Christian Church,