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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-05-04
STORIES OF JEFFERSON
Veteran Actors First Use of His
Rare Gifts.
AMUSING EXPERIENCE IN LONDON

a Crowd and Blocked IL Street-wit-
" Reply That Brought Down tho
House During Il Performance NJ
Grip Van Winkle"-How a Stranger
Came to His Rescue In 81 pas..
Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor.
practically was born ON the stage,
says the New York American. The
fertile imagination which earned him
fame In later life was evidenced when
ne still wore frocks. 1t used to be one
of Jeferson's chief delights in days of
triumph to tell how he first EMPLOYED
his a r gifts on a Mrs. Joe Neal, a
friend Of his mother. In those times,
as Jefferson frequently told it, he was
continually in deep insolvency, being
heavily pressed for debt by the candy
store maj and the peanut vender.
So, whenever he wanted a penny. he
would "dishevel his hair, rush into the
back room and, sinking down in an
apparently exhausted condition, would
tell a most vivid story Of how he had
saved a little girl from a frightful
death beneath the wheels Of an oncom-
ing fire engine"
The startled old oma who loved
him, invariably soothed his lacerated
feelings by giving him the much covet-
ed coin.
His normally strong, youthful imag-
nation was stimulated by his home
surroundings. Jefferson's earliest rec
objections began in a rickety frame
building, with a broad gable, in Wash
tngton. The rear door Of his home
opened on the stage Of a nearby thea
ter, and it was in the scenes that he
made his playground. In the dark
corners were robbers dens and weird
mysteries, which were vivified by the
stage pieces suiting the part always OH
hand.
Often il those hours Jefferson would
wander out IN the deserted stage and
lisp out in childish fashion the words
he had heard the actors say. In after
years, when the plaudits Of thousands
rang in praise Of his art, Jefferson was
wont to remark that the pleasure was
not half so keen as that which he ex-
perienced when as a baby on the de-
serted stage.
At the age Of one he spoiled a scene
in which he as property baby was
supposed to lie quiet on his mothers
breast. At the age Of three he ap-
peared as a full fedged actor in the
role of the infant Hercules strangling
a lion. A year later he was carried on
the stage in a bag by T. D. Rice black
ened and dressed as a miniature re-
production of the minstrel.
Rice was more than six feet tall,
and when the diminutive form Of the
baby jefferson rolled out Of the bag
the contrast was SO ludicrous that the
audience shrieked with laughter. Mon
ey was showered upon the stage, and
the veteran player in his autobiogra-
ply takes pains to explain that he ran
after a silver dollar which rolled down
to the footlight and made q face at
the orchestra leader while doing it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17
IS OVER FOR Them
High School Football Team Goes
to Pieces.
Members Fail in Their Glass
Studies.
OTHERS DROP OUT.
Game With Wentworth for To.
morrow Cancelled.
May Make Effort to Play Next
Week.

"FIunks'' in studies, injuries, par
entail objections, and refusals to longer
play. have practically caused the To-
peka high school football team to dis
band. Eight of the eleven regulars
are off the team.
There are three more games on the
schedule Tomorrow Wentworth
academy was to have been here, but
the contest was called off two days
ago. A week from tomorrow the
Kansas City Manual High school is to
meet the local Highs here. This was
to have been the big game of the
year. It is questionable as to wheth-
er it will be played at all. Manager
Hargreaves is trying his best to get
some of the delinquents to make up
their studies and have parental OBJ
jections removed from others. so as to
play this contest. According to the
rules of the Missouri Valley league,
under which the Topeka and Kansas
City high schools are playing, a stud
ent who fails in two studies is in
eligible to participate in any athletic
contest until he makes them up.
Four members of the team failed in
the mid-term examinations held a
week ago today, in two points. They
are being given an opportunity to
make UP their failures right now.
Should they be able to do so, then
Manager Hargreaves hopes to be able
to patch up some sort of a lineup and
play the Manual game. He is also
trying to obtain the consent of the
Manual to play the men even though
they may be behind in their studies.
It may be possible that the game will
therefore be played. The last game
on the schedule is with Fort Scott on
Thanksgiving day. The Fort Scott
school does not play under the Mis-
souri, Valley league rules, and the To-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17
4 MASTER STROKE
VICTORY OVER OBSTINATE
SCIATICA
DR.. Williams Pink Pills Bring
About a Perfect and
Lasting Cure.

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of painful disease that had filed TWEEN
ty-f1ve years of a woman's life with
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to merit the attention of any one and is
of intense practical interest to all who
may be similarly afflicted. Miss Cath
arine J. Mack, of No. A Forbes street.
Jamaica Plain, Mass, has had a. most
remarkable experience as a victim of
sciatica. probaly the most excruciating
and disabling form of neuralgia as it in
wolves the great nerve of the hips. and
makes all motion of the lower half of
the body torture. Other nerves act, too,
in sympathy with it and the intensity
and steadiness of the pain make the
condition of the sufferer pitiabIe in the
extreme. After a quarter of a century
of weakness and agony, Miss Mack is
now entirely free from her afIiction
and for the benefit of others she gives
the following account of her cure:
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ago. During all that time I had to
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week. I had constant and very severe
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also in my right hand; in fact my
whole right side seemed involved. The
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impossible for me to sleep or even to
turn in bed. For periods lasting some
times for two weeks I could not cross
4 the floor and the pain was then indie
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| distracted by my long sufferings. 1t
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1 in such misery.
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I had been under the care of physicians
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/ they suffer as 7 did"
The remedy which effected this re-
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17

pega high school can make up almost
any lineup against them.
In addition to the four men who
failed in their studies, there are four
more men out of the lineup. Captain
Jennings injured his knee SO badly IN
the Wentworth game two weeks ago
that he is just about able to walk.
Left End Smith was taken off the
team by his parents who want him to
quit playing football. Halfback Reed
and Quarterback Rowley have both
quit the team. StOrrs and Thayers
two of the biggest men in school, who
might be able to fill up the gaps left
by those who are off the squad are
kept from doing so by their parents,
who object to their playing and par
ticipating in the game.
So the fact of the matter is that the
High school team is just about wiped
off the map. Il hope to be able to
play the Manual game Saturday Of
next week" said Manager HargreaveS
this morning. THAT was to have been
our big game of the year and if we
have been a decisive battle. We have
had fearful luck this year. There have
only been a few old men on the team,
ali of the rest of the material being
green. The squad has been hard to
handle this year. The different mem
bers have not been willing to come out
and practice. The other evening
when Fullback Williams of the Wash
OuIl team appeared IL GOdCA tlCt4 Dut
one member of the team was on the
field. That has been our experience
all season. Then Captain Jennings is
hurt and Rowley and Reed have quit.
Smith has been taken out by his par
ents. Four of the team failed.
would rather not mention their names,
but one of them is one of the best men
on the team. Storrs and Thayer, two
of the best men for football material
the school ever had, have not come
out this year because of parental in
reference. We have had a bad string
some sort of a concession from Man
uaI or succeed in getting the players
to make up their studies by next Sat
urday we may be able to play the
game. I will do my level best to
frame up something"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17
MISS ALLEGES BOXES
Are Now Being Opened by the Custom
House Authorities.

Washington, Nov. 17.-The exami-
nation and appraisement of the pres
ents received by Miss Alice Roosevelt
during her visit to the Orient has be-
gun. The officials at the Georgetown
custom house have begun to open up
the z boxes in which the presents
were shipped and other souvenirs of
the visit which resulted in a social
conquest of the far east by the presi-
dents daughter. The customs Of
fcials say the task is anything but an
easy one owing to the necessity laid
on them to appraise the goods on
their foreign commercial value. Only
about one-third of the boxes have
been opened and Collector Nyman and
his staff are said to be somewhat sur
tents will exceed scarcely a few thou
sand dollars.
Although the presents have lain in
the strong room in the basement of
the Georgetown postoffice building, in
which the customs house is located
for three weeks guarded night and
day, there is no effort to get rid of
hem quickly. When the president in
structed that no special hurry was de-
sired and that they should take the
regular course, the officials devoted
amount of merchandise that had al
ready. arrived. They were unusually
busy owing to the importation of
Christmas goods.
As the work of appraising Miss
Roosevelt's presents Is being done
along with the other work of the Of
fee, it is doubtful if the last box viii
have been examined and the valuation
fixed before next week. Miss Roose-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17
BOWMAN'S RUIN.
Said That the Missing Treasurer
Gambled in Stocks.
Believed That Funds Were Lost
on Board of Trade.
HE is STILL MISSING.
Went From Phillipsburg to
Omaha Monday Night.
Frank Donovan Is Appointed to
Succeed Bowman.
HE is STILL MISSING.

Phillipsburg, Kan, Nov. lit is be-
lieved now that Charles w. Bowman,
the missing treasurer of Phillips
county, has been gambling in stocks on
the Kansas City board of trade ever
since he entered the office and it is
thought that unfortunate speculations
there were the direct cause of the al
legged misrepresentation of the county
funds. Tt is reported that Bowman
admitted to a friend Saturday that he
had been specializing. The $4,000 of
the county money which was turned
over to the county commissioners by
Bowman's attorneys Tuesday was Sc
cured Monday by the treasurer by a
draft ON the Christie Grain company
of Kansas City. The draft was made
Friday through the First National
bank of Philhpsburg. A telegram was
received by A. Womer, the cashier.
Monday, stating that the draft had
been honOred. The cashier turned the
money over to Bowman, after marking
the packages so that he was able posi-
lively to identify the money produced
by the attorneys, Tuesday.
1t has been learned that Bowman
went to Omaha when he left here
Monday night. A conductor on a Chi
cagO. Rock Island & Pacific passenger
train has Informed the commissioners
of this fact but all efforts to locate
Bowman in Omaha have proved
truitless. The commissioners decided
today to engage an expert accountant
to make an examination of the books
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G44eo Qa010h
8zeaAAe 1t

No dangerous drugs or alcoholic
concoctons are taken into the stom-
ach when Hyomei is used. Breathed
through the inhaler, the baIsamic
healing of Hyomei penetrates to me
most remote cells of the nose and
throat, and thus Kills the catarrhal
germs, heals the iTritated mucous
membrane. and gives complete and
permanent cure.
Hyomei is the simplest, most pleas
ant and the only guaranteed cure for
catarrh that has been discovered.
Complete outfit, s1.O0: extra bottle,
so cents.
your dealer. it viii be forwarded by
mail. postage paid, on receipt Of
price. Write today for a free sample
bottle and consultation blank that viii
entitle you to services of our medical
department without charge. The r.
T. Booth Company, Hyomei building.
Ithaca n. X.
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MI1Ena ma Jawyec
Unless earlv and correct treatment Is

Unless early and correct treatment is
applied the patient seldom survives
when once the disease is fastened upon
her. Lydia 3. Pinlhams Vegetable
Compound is the most efficient treat
ment for kidney troubles OF women,
and is the only medicine especially
prepared for this purpose.
When a woman is troubled with pain
or weight in loins, backache, frequent,
painful or scalding urination, swelling
of limbs or feet, swelling under the
eyes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the
region of the kidneys or notices brick
dust sediment in the urine, she should
lose no time in commencing treatment
with Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, as it may be the means OF
saving her life.
For proof, read what Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound did for Mrs
Sawyer.
s. cannot express the terrible suffering /
had to endure. A arrangement of the female
organs developed nervous prostration and a
serious kidney trouble. The doctor attended
me for a year, but I kept getting worse, until
was unable to do anything, and made up
my mind could not live I finally decided
to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound as a last resort, and am to-day a well
woman. l cannot praise II too highly, and I
tell every suffering woman about my caSe. -
Mrs. Emma Sawyer Conyers, Ca
Mrs. Pinkham gives free advice to
women address IN confidence, Lynn,
Mass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17
DRYDEN HAS A BILL.
For Federal Control of Life Insur-
ance, Which He VIII Ofer.

Washington, Nov. 17-Senator Dry
den, of New Jersey, who Is president
Of one of the largest life Insurance
companies in the country. has had
talk with the president on the subject
of life insurance, which the president
will discuss freely in his forthcoming
message to congress. Senator Dryden
will introduce at the approaching
session a bill providing for federal su-
pervision of life insurance It VIII
differ in some respects from the meas
ure Mr.. Dryden introduced in the last
congress, but the principle VIII be the
same. He indicated, in response to
inquiries, that the supreme court
never had passed upon the consttu-
tfonality of a federal law regulating
insurance, although it had held, in the
consideration of cases involving purely
state laws, that interstate Insurance.
was not interstate commerce. "It IS a
fact" said Senator Dryden, that emil
nent lawyers of the country differ as
to the constitutionality of a law pro-
viding for federal supervision OF life
insurance. That difference, probably
will have to be resolved by the SUI
preme court"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-17

in the treasurer's Office. ]. E. Cation
of Kansas City, Kan, has been secured
to do this work.
Late Thursday afternoon the com
mfssioners appointed Frank. Donovan,
a young Democrat living in the north
western portion of the county, to sue
coed Bowman as treasurer. One of
the results of the shortage in the
county treasury and the arrest of
Bowman, was a run Saturday on the
Prairie View bank of which Bowman
was a director. A. T. Walker father
in-law of Bowman, was the president
and principal shareholder, but he was
obliged to dispose of his holdings to
raise money with which to save the in
stitution. G. W. Bowman, father of
the missing man, has sold all of his
property and says that he will leave
the state. The wife is Frustrated and
is in a critical condition. She has re-
ceived no word from her husband
since his disapp Monday night
and it is feared that unless she hears
from him soon, she will be unable to
survive the shock.
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RULERS OF The WORLD.
Meat Eating Nations Are the Leaders
in Every Branch of Human.
Achievements.

The ruling nations of the world are
meat eaters and history records that
they always have been.
Vegetarians and food cranks may ex-
plain this in any way they choose, but
the facts remain that the Americans.
English, French, Russians and Ger
mans are meat-eating nations, and they
are also the most energetic and most
progressive.
The principal food of the heroic Boer
soldier, known as Biltong. is a sort of
dried beef, affOrding a great deal of
nourishment in highly concentrated
form.
The weak races of people are the
relocating Chinese, HindOs. and
Siamese. regarded since the dawn of
history as nOn-p progressive suDersti-
tiOus and inferior physically and mem
tally to the meat-eatins nations who
dominate them.
The structure of the teeth plainly in
dicates that human beings should sub
sist upon q variety of food meat fruit
and grains, and it is unhygienic to con-
fine ones diet to any one of those
classes TO the exclusion Of another.
Meat is the most concentrated and
most easily digested of foods, but our
manner of living is often so unnatural
that the digestive organs refuse to pro-
perly digest meat. eggs and similar
nutritious and wholesome food but it
is not because such food is unhole-
some, DuL the real reason is that the
stomach lacks. from disease or weak
ness, some necessary digestive element:
hence arising Indigestion and, later on
chronic dyspepsia.
Nervous people should eat plenty Of
meat, conNalescents should make meat
the principal food -warking peo-
PIE have to do SO, and brain workers
and Office men should eat. not SO much
meat, but at least once day, and to
insure its perfect digestion one or two
OF Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets should be
taken after each meal, because they
supply the peptOnes. diastase and fruit
ACIDS, lacking in every case Of stomach
trouble
Nervous dyspepsia. catarrh of stom-
ach, gastritls sour stomach. gas and
acid1ty are only different names for in
digestion, the failure to digest whole
some food, and the use of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets cures them all be
cause, by affording perfect digestion,
the stomach has q chance to rest and
recover its natural tone and vigor
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the real
household medicine: it is as safe and
pleasant for the stomach ache of the
baby as it is for the imperfect diges-
ton of its grand sire
They are not a cathartic. but a d.
gesuVe, and no nill habit can ever fol-
low their use; the only habit Stuart's
Tablets induce is the habit of good di-
gestion and consequently good health.
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SALARY CUT IN HALF.
President McCurdy Relinquishes, VoIS
UNFAIRLY $4,000 a Year

New York, Nov. 17.-At a special
meeting Of the board Of trustees Of the
Mutual Life Insurance company IN
this city, at which a preliminary re-
port of the recently appointed special
investigating committee was submit
ted, President Richard a. McCurdy
caused a stir by announcing that at
ais own request, his salary had been
cut in half, from $4,000 to $4,000
a year. This action was taken at
meeting of the finance committee, and
Mr.. McCurdy said it was the first step
in reducing the expenses of the com
pany.
Salaries of the other executive Off
GERS of the company also have been re-
duced, the saving amounting IN al 70
between $4,000 and $4,000 per an
NUN.
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IN CoNTENfPT OF COURT.
Assistant Attorney General MECHANISM
After Joint Landlords.


After Joint Landlords.
Kansas City. kan. Nov. Nv. H.
MECHANISM, assistant attorney genera
in this city, yesterday cited five men to
appear in the district and common pleas
courts to answer to the charge OF being
in contempt of court for violating in
functions issued some time ago to re
strain them from either renting their
property for Joint or selling liquor.
John Matney, who owns a building at
POI Kansas avenue, and Martin Moy-
land jointkeeper, were cited to APP
pear before Judge Moore of the district
court. c. w. Mcclure, owner of build
ing near Sixth street and Minnesota
avenue, and Michael Kirby and SIl
Hanna, jointkeepers, were cited to APP
pear before Judge Holt of the court OF
common pleas. The injunctions were is
sued by Judge Moore and Judge Holt
some time ago.
It has been the custom in the past
among the jointkeepers to disregard
these civil injunctions. but Mr. Mccain
ish says that he proposes to make that
manner of procedure effective by plac-
ING a few "jointkeepers' in jail for con-
tennpt of court in violating injunctions
Those cited to appear yesterday will be
arraigned as soon as service is had on
them.
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STANSFlELD SPRINGS 4 HEH CIGAR.
Present Wadsworth Bros Chico Which
Sells Like Wild Fire.

George W. stansheld, druggist, s22
Kansas avenue. Topeka, has recently
introduced new brand of cigars
Wadsworth Bros Chico In size and
quality they are the style Of ten cent
cigar, but retail at five cents stratgI.- e
Stansf1eld's aim is to give the srnok-
ers Of Topeka the best goods possloie,
and he believes that in pushing ana
recommending the ChicOs he has oons
a good thing for people who IKE q
good cigar at a reasonable price
The Chicos are made from long
clear Havana filler, and burn with 2
solid ash. In flavor and fragrance tney
can not be told from cigars that retait
at ten and fifteen cents. The fact tnas
they are today the favorite smoke oA
the most fastidious trade. people VINO
heretofore smoked nothing but ten ana
fifteen cent cigars, shows that this =
true. Prove it for yourself, however,
by trying a Chico. Put down dime
at Stansfeld's cigar counter and see y
the two cigars you get are not betIer
than any cigar you ever smoked BEFORE
for twice the money
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SHOT THE WRONG MAN.
Farmers Near NTuscotah Use a Mover
Pretty Roughly.

Atchison, Kan, Nov. IA stranger
giving his name as Adam West, was
fred upon four miles west of Muscotah,
Atchison county, Thursday by mem
Atchison county, Thursday, by mem
bers of the Atchison County Protective
Association, and is now being held at
Holton for investigation There has
been a lot of stealing around that
neighborhood. West looked suspicious,
and is said to have pulled a gun when
an attempt was made to search his
wagon. Shotguns were used by the
farmers. and shot took effect in his
legs, feet and body.
West has telegraphed for friends in
Oklahoma. Nothing in the way of sus-
picious property was found in his wa
gon.