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The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26

by group Of Old.time friends whL
claimed his attention and recognition
after his years of foreign travel Look,
ing beyond the little group about him
into the ballroom his rowing gaze was
Instantly caught and held by thu
vision Of "A girl with Il pair OF Won
derful dark and deep eyes. an exquisite
face and quiet dignity in the carriage
Of her syclte figure,
who Is she" he asked of the man
nearest him aud even before the an.
swer came he knew the name would
be Lucille FELTON,
Look OUT" he was warned "IMclIe
cannot be- accused of flirting but she
attracts all men and always turns them
down"
She saw him coming across the room
and knew him by the winsome brown
eyes that were sim the eyes OF the
little boy she had played with years
before
ooh yes" she said careessly, as he
recalled himself to he memory 81
remember all my old playmates
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26

Baron Graham once asked an rpicurt
how many oysters he should eat III or
der to create u good appetite for dinner
and was told 10 rat away uutli hc be-
came hungry The baron, who never
saw joke ate ten dozen. and tnrr
plaiutlyely remarked Pom my wuru
don't think ! am AS hungry a. When
began
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26
YARNS OF THE DAY.

"Ot course you know how many min
utes there are to al hour SAID law
ser To witness In an English court
Well" said the witness after ponder
ing awhile, lets lear your version
Of IL
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26
MURDERED A KENTUCKlAN.
Hnb6rd the H"dS ct Two Thousand
Dollars aud L~r 1t Lying
Ia Lane.

Glasgow Ky. May 2l.--Nrws has
reached here OF the murder ana rob
'bcry. near huntsville OF James Skin
Cumberland county His body was
found in lane. There was bullet
hole IN his temple ana three in his
breast His watch, Il bin case contain
tng s. 900 IN currency. aud short sack
II silver he had with him when he left
town aud u bundle VI legal papers are
gone.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26

Efingham. III. May II John b
Roscoe, the oldest man IN Eriugham
county, aged 81, died in this city Of old
age lie had lived in this county since
1875 lie was the father OF 10 children.
Twenty-three grant children and q
great grand-ch survive him.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26

The late Legislature passed 3j4
pages of laws.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, had $500,
900 fire last Sunday.
Heavy rains on the 2lst did great
damage to crops ut Denison. Texas
Three thousand electric bulbs
are tc be placed on the dome of the
National capitol.
A bread riot occurred in IL Span.
ish province on the DIST, workmen
attacking several flour mills.
A censor has been appointed for
the shows at Coney Island this year,
and several have been closed nj .
ready
Kansas farmsrs want college boys
to help them harvest wheat; say
they got the best results last year
from young men fresh from the
college.
One of the largest real estate
deals in Mississippi county was that
last week when J.. Handy Moore
paid $45, 900 to W, T. Marshall for
1000 acres of land
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26

Mayor Weaver Of Philadelphia tells
a story of a friend whose alouDurss ana
constant good humur are his chief dis
tinctiuns. We happened to b" talk
Ing on the subject OF gastruuun,y. said
The mayor and somehow my friend D.
tremendous girlh prompted me to a7n
him II he followed any set rulcE to guide
him in his eating I have Just one rule.
he replied, and MS winner Wh"n !
sit down 10 eat ST six inches or so from
the table aud when | touch II done. Do
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-05-26

Il Hinton Perry tac sculptor. Is re
apunsible Tor the following story OF N,
scrub lady" who cares for his studio
How many children have you. Mrs
O'Flarity?" he asked her one morning
ITS siyen | have sir. she rrpurd
four be the third wife VI me seluuu
husband, and three be the second Wi,
%! me- iuIst
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
CRIME A DISEASE?
Reclamation Instead of Punishment of
Malefactors Proposed in England.

We commented recently on an article
by Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent scien-
fist, in which he advocated, among 9TH
er social reforms Immediately practical
BILE, the substitution of real reformator
les for our penal institutions. Crime, Sir
Oliver contends, is moral disease. and
criminals should be cured and restored
to moral health, rather than degraded
punished and branded as outcasts.
What is known in England as the
BorstaI plan is an enlightened attempt
to apply on a modest scale this view of
crime and criminals. The scheme has
been on trial since October, 1902, and its
value has already been demonstrated
for 1t is proposed to establish a prison
on the same principles at Lincoln, for
the north of England. The Borstal
prison is near Rochester, and only priS-
oners between the ages of 16 and 81 are
confined there.
The theory of the Borstal method of
administration is that these juvenile
adult offenders are the victims of the
street, of bad surroundings. irregular
employment and involuntary idleneSS.
After they are sentenced selection is
made by the prison commissioners, and
the most promising are sent to Borstal
In that institution prison discipline is at
the irreducible minimum. The inmates
are taught trades, market gardening,
physical drill, and encouraged to read
and otherwise educate themselves. THE
result of all this physical and mental
and moral stimulus" says a London re-
view. lis that the atmosphere of the
place is full of active, spirited, .energet-
ic, cheerful life
After a training of from II to 10
months most of the inmates are dis
charged, though it is felt that the time
is too short for acquiring fixed habits
of industry and the mastery of a trade.
OF the 1S2 graduates OF Borstal IA
have entered upon honest industrial ca
reers, Sc have been lost sight of, 9 are
considered doubtful" while 81 have
been reconvicted of more or less serious
offenses
The reclamation of more than 40 per
cent of the prisoners is regarded as
decidedly hopeful indication of the sue
cess of the plan. and its friends ask
more liberal appropriations and more
institutions of the same kind. A prl-
waite association of philanthropic citizens
co-operates with the state in finding
places for the Borstal men, providing
them with food and lodgings in the in
terval, giving them sympathy and moral
support in various ways. It is interest
ing to learn that the British home office
is i,nbued with the best ideas of penal
administration and keenly appreciatiVe
of the possibilities of the Borstal PLAN
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
GETS INTO THE COURT.
Lynch Kidnapping Case to Be Tried on
Merits.

The attempted KIDNAPPING of little
Imogene Lynch has reached the court
stage. A complaint was sworn to at
the county attorneys office late Friday
sued and probably will not be until
the ha5eas corpus case is heard in the
district court, which will be Septem-
Der IL.
and Mrs. Clara Woolverton of 1884
Harrison street with attempted abduc-
ton OF Imogene Lynch from the home
OF J; P. Douglass Of SIS West Fifth
named in the complaint, was one of
the followers of Carry Nation in her
joint smashing crusades a year or so
ago and had little Imogene Lynch for
about a year but refused to adopt her
The child was then taken by Superin-
tendent Morrow of the Kansas chill
dren's society and placed in the Doug
lass family where she was to remain
on probation until it should be decided
whether or not they wanted to adopt
her as their daughter.
A writ of habeas corpus was asked
for this morning by Lynch, who is
have the child at any cost. He claims
the little girl is the daughter of his
twin brother and that he is acting for
the mother of the little girl who is
now a school. teacher in the state Of
Washington and in a position to care
for her children. There is another lit
tie girl, the sister of Imogene, being
cared for by the family of J. c. Camp
bell who lives near Quenemo, and it
has not yet been determined what ac-
ton will be taken in her case but DR..
Morrow thinks that as the children
were given up once by the mother that
they should be permitted to stay in the
families where they have been placed
by the society.
Albert watkins, who is the attorney
for the society which has charge of
handling children of this class, said:
Eve do not know anything about this
man Lynch who is trying to get pos
session of this child and he has moth
ing at all to substantiate his claims
and as far as that is concerned he has
made so many different claims and
told so many different stories that
a little wrong with his claims and if
ever the case comes to trial am con-
WINGED that there will be some rather
startling revelations. To say the least
he has taken rather strange way to
get possession of the child. In his at
away from the Douglass family he has
laid himself liable to a term in the
state penitentiary. He is bluf6ng,
clustering specimen of humanity and I
do not think that he should have pos
session of the little girl under any cir
lasses and frightened them in his at
tempt to kidnap the child and when
he called at the office of DIR. Morrow
it was found necessary to get the police
to calm him down. The habeas corpus
proceedings will be heard by Judge
insist that the warrant charging Mrs.
Woolverton and Lynch with kidnap-
ing be served and in that way we will
get at the merits of the case"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
KANSAS COLLEGE, OF MUSIC.
Formal Announcement of Its Openine
Appears Today.

In another column appears the pre-
iiminary announcement of the KAN
sas College of Music, which is being
organized by Prof. Penny and Prof
Klingenberg. The first impression
which one receives upon reading the
announcement is that of scope=in the
large territory from which the school
Will naturally draw students. because
of the reputation of it's instructors and
ats favora BILE location. There is fur
thermore great scope in the plan of
organization IT is rather unique for
q school to start in with registration.
IN all four years of the various courses,
making possible the establishment of
fuIly equipped college. Even the
library is not wanting, as Mr.. Penny
has placed at the disposal of the stu
dents his own private musical library
which contains nearly everything pub
lished upon music and the fine arts
during the past twenty years. An
other impression which the reader. re-
ceives is that of quality-the high
courses, which are named the thigh
school," the college," and the s'uni-
versity" courses, of two, three and
-FOUR years, respectively. Then, too,
of the student is demanded In the
plan to reduce the usual three years
collegiate course to two years, and the
four years course to three 1t can
be seen that only the seriously mind
ed student is considered, the student
willing to work hard in order to ac-
qutre rapid advancement Further
more, three term" year is contem-
plated-one allowing a three weeks
vacation at Christmas. so that stu
dents may avail themselves of the
musical season in larger cities, if thew
care to take advantage of cheap rail-
road rates to Chicago and the east.
Likewise longer summer vacation
than is usually given in colleges, SO
that teachers of music studying in the
school may continue longer with their
summer classes. thus earning more
money for their education.
At Least once or at the close of their
four years course, students are to be
urged tn join the party which is to
form the annual summer school in
Europe. There is no reason why stu
dents should not study at home with
the same seriousness and concentration
which they would give if studying at
some musical center abroad. It is
Haerely q question OF giving less time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
The whale shark.

One of the most interesting of fishes
and by far the largest of all is the
Rhineodon typus. This has received
the uuasi-vernacular name whale
shark. although under the native In
dian name, Mhor, it has been the OBJ
ject of a regular fishery for long
time along the northwestern coast of
India.
One might naturally suppose that
the animal was SO rare that nothing
was known of its range or habits if
the most recent works were consulted
Geo. BUST, writing in 1850, says: "The
greatest, the most gigantic, of the
sharks is one not uncommon in the
Indian ocean, but which, on account
of it's huge size, is represented by re-
mains in very few museums, and is
little known. Tt is the Rhineodon
typus, the not inappropriate name of
whale shark having been coined for 1t.
This huge animal occasionally attains
to a length of 60 feet, although the
average size is much less. 1t does not
willingly approach land, and is slow,
apathetic animal, mostly living near
the surface of the ocean and often
resting, idly floating along and sup
posed to be sleeping
Unlike the giant Cnarcnarodon, or
Ynan-eater. it has extremely small
teeth. and it's food consists of very
minute animals. These crustaceans
and rnollusks flourish in such abund-i
ance about the surface of the ocean
that they compensate by their number
for their very small size. 1t is a
harmless fish, with a mouth of i'm
1nense width, furnished with small
teeth. 1t now and then rubs itself
against a large pirogue, upsetting it,
but never attacks or molests the occu-
pants.-Philadelphi Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
SUES LAWSON.
Louis HI. Rain Claims Damages
Amounting to $S,75O,O0O.

Boston, Sept 9.-Claiming he has
been damaged to the extent OF $780,
0O0 by the failure of Thomas w. Law
son to keep an agreement with him,
Louis H. Rain of Unique, Mex, en-
tered suit against Mr.. Lawson in the
supreme court today. He requests
that the defendant deliver to him per-
sonally $500 shares of the Lawson
company of Mexico and in addition
that he place in a safe deposit vault
for ten years 22,500 shares to bind the
agreement on which the suit is based.
The plaintiff alleges that Mr.. Lawson
agreed to finance the company and
failed to do so. An order of notice
was issued by the court making the
case returnable Tuesday.
The Lawson company of Mexico is
capitalized at $780, 900 shares of par
value of $40. Thomas w. Lawson is
president and Arnold Lawson secretary
and treasurer of the company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
LOCAL MENTION.

Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Williams of sos
Clay street are the parents of a boy.
r. p. Kane has taken out a building
permit for the erection of an $500
dwelling on lots 513-515 West Four
teenth street.
City Treasurer NJ M Hale has re-
turned from a weeks vacation at Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo.
Mrs Q. Benson who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. John Campbell of
Long Beach, Cal, for the past month,
returned home this morning
A. G. Mead, of Be1oit, a member of the
legislature from Mitchell county, is in
Topeka today. Mr.. Mead was chairman
of the committee on assessment and
taxation in the last legislature, and one
of the leaders in the house.
Senator Getty of Kansas City was in
Topeka Friday afternoon and conferred
with Attorney General Coleman about
the grain inspection case. The states
attorneys realize that the chance for
saving the state grain inspection de-
partment is slight, but they propose to
make hard fight.
John Smith, executive clerk for Gov
ernor Hoch, has returned from a few
days visit at Marion.
Miss Marian Alt has returned from
a months visit with friends in Man
haitian.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Stanton gave a din
ner at their home on Topeka avenue
Friday evening. Covers were laid fol-
ten.
Have you see the $3.50 shoes that
are to be given away at the ST. Marks
A. NJ. E. church. North Topeka, Sep
tember IS? They are at the Fitwel
Shoe Co.. 500 Kansas avenue. Johr
w. H. Morris, pastor.
The time of Judge Dana of the dis
trict court was taken up this morning
in listening to the motions in a number
of cases that are to come up for fria
at later day, and listening to the evil
dence in an unimportant divorce case
Twenty-Five deputy sheriffs under
the direction of J. NJ. Wilkerson were
sworn in at the Office of Sheriff Luca.
this afternoon. They will be stationed
about the fair grounds next week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
Iow One Wav Rates.

Every day from September L to
October 81, 1905. inclusive. the Union
Pacific will sell one way tickets as fol-
lows:
$1,000 to Ogden and Salt Lake City.
$4,000 to Helena and Butte, Mont.
$3.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee,
Washington.
s22.5O to Huntington and Nampa.
Idaho.
$500 to Portland. Tacoma and
Seattle.
$1,000 to Vancouver and Victoria.
$500 to Ashland and Astoria, Ore
gon, via Portland.
$500 to San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego.
CorrespondingIy low rates to many
other California, oregon, Washington,
Montana, Utah and Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every day
on Union Pacific between Missouri
river and Pacific coast; double berth
$5.75. For full information call on
or address nearest Union Pacific agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
THEY'RE COMING HOME
G. A. r. Excursionists Load East
Bound Trains.

East bound trains through Topeka
on all the railroads are beginning to be
loaded down with the home bound
crowds from the G. A. R. encampment
Rock Island and Santa Fe are being
run in two and three sections and
while the rush home is as great as it
was to get there the railroads are not
experiencing quite the same difficulty
they had in handling the crowds, for
equipment was kept there and is being
to take the crowds to Denver. this
equipment was kept there and is being
trained away as fast as it is filed. Still,
the passenger departments of the
Santa Fe, Rock Island and Union Pa
cif1c are having their hands full in
handling the returning multitudes.
A. J. Kennedy of Cleveland, o., and
F. e. Shellaberger of PittSburg, Pa,
travelling passenger agents for the
Santa Fe stopped over in Topeka q few
hours today on tn cir return from Den
yer where they had chaperoned spe-
cial trains from their localities. Both
men had nothing but words of praise
for the way the people of Denver had
entertained the hundred thousand
that the railroads. generally, had ham
died the crowds to Denver in an adj
mirable manner and were prepared to
bring them home in as good shape.
Mr.. Shellaberger said that hundreds
and hundreds of visitors who had gone
to Denver by other lines intended to
come home by the Santa Fe and that
he expected the traffic east would
greatly exceed the enormous crowds
handled by the Santa Fe on the west
ern trip.
1t is expected that the Kansas head
Topeka over the Rock Island tomor-
row.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09

years of age, are frequently addressed
by their religious teachers and by
prominent church women in the meet
ings of the Young Ladies' Mutual I'm
provement association. on the right
eousness and necessity of plural mar
riage; taught, furthermore, in the most
bold and uncompromising manner
Mrs. Susa Young Gates, a daughter of
Brigham Young, who is one of the most
women in the Mormon
church and is well known as a lecturer
in the east, said, in addressing a con-
ference of the association only a few
years ago: Girls, do not forget polyga-
my; you cannot practice it now, but
keep it alive in your hearts. Remember
there are four girls to every boy in
Utah." 1t is well known that the CEN
sus at the time showed only a very
small excess. Mrs. Young's defense of
polygamy is always apt to assume an
illogical turn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
Usage Operators Want Roads
Brought to Time.
Claim That They Are Victims
Of Discrimination.
FIGURES ARE GIVEN.
Show That Other Districts Are
Favored With Rates.
Their Business VIII Be Ruined
They Say.
Appeal to Railroad Commission
ers for Relief.
FIGURES ARE GIVEN.

Thomas Chappell and Gust johnson,
1.-TWO Of the leading coal mine operators
dn the Usage district, were in Topeka
to-day, and filed suit before the state
PICARD of railroad commissioners against
sthe Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific rail-
1Tay alleging that the present coal rates
are grossly discriminative against the
Usage mines, and asking for readjust-
'znent
Usage City and county supply a
1arge amount of the coal used in Topeka
and it is we'll known that the coal rates
are driving the operators out of bust
mess IN that county. They can not COM
Dete against Pittsburg competition, and
the result is that many of the mines
NAVE been closed down of late years.
This new coal suit will be carried on
entirely Independent of the coal rate
suit filed by carr Taylor attorney for
the board. Taylor's suit is a blanket
measure and applies to all the coal
rates of the state, while the Chappell-
johnson suit affects only Usage county
The Usage county case is so plain,''
said Carr Taylor today, that we de-
cided to make a separate case of it.
There is no doubt in the world that
Usage county has been getting the worst
tof 1t, and there is no court in the land
Ehat Will sustain the unjust charges now
in effect. Consequently, we believe that
we can give these people relief very
soon, even If the general coal rate case
IS tied up in the courts for some time.
81 have talked to these Usage county
people, and the fact is that the coal in
dustry down there viii be just about
ruined unless they get relief.
The petition filed today by Chappell
and johnson is brief. the principal Sec
ton being as follows:
Your petitioners further aver that
the Usage coal mining field is grossly
Disseminated against in the rates on
dump coal from said field to all sta
tions within the state of Kansas; that
said defendants have put into effect
and are maintaining rates on lump
coal from what is known as the Pitts
burg coal mining district in the state
of Kansas to all points in Kansas
which are much less per ton for the
carriage of coal for like distances I'M
der similar conditions within the state
of Kansas, thereby maintaining an I'M
lawful discrimination, as aforesaid
against the said Usage coal mining dis
trict.''
An examinations of the rate sheets
shows that there Is a general differ
entail of from 10 to SO cents a ton
against Usage coal on both the Santa
Fe and Missouri Pacific. To a few
towns the Usage coal gets the best
rate for some competitive reason, but in
the great majority of cases the Usage
coal is put under a severe handicap.
The following tables show the coal
rates for the approximate distances
mentioned on both lines. out of Pitts
burg and out of Usage City:
STATIONS ON SANTA FE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
Little United States Court work.

On next Monday at Wichita the
United States district and circuit courts
will sit in their first sessions for this
fall. There are % circuit court cases,
1S equity cases and four criminal
cases. A grand jury will also be en-
paneled. Probably six cases will be
subjected to it's deliberations. "The
work will be light said United States
Attorney McKeever this morning. 81
do not think that it will take us longer
than a week" The local officers will
go to Wichita on Sunday. They will
be Judge Pollock, United States Attor-
neys Dean and McKeever, United
States Marshals Mackey and Fleniken,
Clerks Sharritt and Albaugh and Bailiff
Henry billiard.