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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
PASTOR AIDED.
Preston Citizens Object to a Wife
Beaten Around.
Drag Him From Bed and Give
Him Thrashing.

A certain citizen of Preston, according
to the Pratt Republican, has been dis
turbing his neighborhood by whipping
his wife and the neighbors became tired
of it, so committee waited upon and
informed him that if it ever occurred
again they would go for him; so to let
it be the last time. He quit, but one
night last week, the baby took to crying,
and to such an extent that John was
unable to sleep and becoming disguised
got out of bed and picking the baby up,
went to the door and heaved it onto
the prairie, fortunately without hurting
it and the baby cried on until it went
to sleep. The neighbors hearing of the
outrage the next day, meeting was
held and it was soon decided on what
course to pursue.
About midnight of that night the
heartless father was awakened by a
crowd standing around the bed occu-
pied by himself and wife and on his
refusal to get up he was yanked out of
bed and hustled on the double quick
to a tree to which he was tied and the
masked men each took turns in giving
him a good flashing. His yells and
cries for mercy alarmed the whole
town, and finally one of the preachers,
who was present, thinking the man
had enough, stepped up and ordered
the men to desist, the fellow was
the crowd separated and John went
back to bed. where he has since re-
NAMED, claiming that the mob had
hurt his insides. We expect when he
fully RECEIVERS he'll be coming to Pratt
to have warrants issued for those who
took part.
Since the above was in type we have
learned more of the particulars of the
affair John 1. Roush was employed
in the meat market and about mid
night a man rode up to his residence
and informed him that he wanted a
dollars worth of meat, and told that
he would be down at once. On his
way down and when passing between
two buildings, he was held up, tied by
| the feet and hands, in a loose manner,
and gently led to a telegraph pole on
the Missouri Pacific. where he was
fastened and cut with buggy whip
for some time. when Rev. Fred Poore
stepped up and told the boys it was
time to stop. An effort is being made
to find out who they were, but as all
were masked, it is doubtful if any one
will be arrested. 1t would seem as if
everybody in Preston and the sur
rounding country was away from home
| that night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
THEY BUY SMITH CARS.
Topeka Automobiles Bought by To-
peka People.

The Smith Automobile company has
made and delivered so far this year to
strictly Topeka people the following
cars:
Dr. H H. Keith. car. 81 600
DR.. r. O. Rhodes, 1, car, 81, 900.
Mr.. F. H. Petro, L car, 81, 500.
DIR. Samuel Lyman, 1 car, So, 300.
Mr.. J.. F. Billings, car, s.. 300.
Mr.. c. H.eGaunt,- l ear, $4,000 ----,
DIR. L. L. Goodwin, 1 car, 81, 000
Mr.. Hiram p. Dillon. 1 car, 81, 500.
Mr.. William Moeser, 1 car, $4,000
They also have the following Topeka
orders, the most of which are nearing
completion:
Mr.. NJ F. Southwick, 1 car, $500.
DR.. John C. McClintock, 2 cars, $1,000
Mr.. James Chappelle, car. $1,000.
Mr.. Arthur Capper, l car. $1,000.
Mr.. John Mathews, L car, $1,000.
Mr.. Horace L. Hall, 1 car, So, 500.
Total, $50, 500 as
Total number of machines, 16.
Average price, 81, 237.50.
This indicates that Topeka people
appreciate the fact that there is made
right here in Topeka an automobile that
can not be duplicated at any eastern
factory for the price. The Smith Auto
mobile company is the result of years
of experimenting and the fact that they
are bought right here in Topeka indi-
Gates that they have met every require
mani
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Many dollar of it did she spend for
some hungry mouth in the poor part of
the CITY Many a basket of coal did
she buy Her little earnings were used
port
1t didn't take Mother Florence long
TO dispose of $50 papers She did it in
a little over day They are supposed
many quarter was she given from
people over the city for her paper. But
1t made no difference whether you paid
her a quarter, whether you paid her
nickel, or whether you bought not all,
it was always the same with her, her
words of. blessings came just the same,
5. God Bless YOU
She has done a world of good in To-
about her this morning. you cannot
imagine how many young girl in this
city, who has started on a wrong path
has Mother Florence to thank for saw
ing her. Cases innumerable 1 might
mention to you, but those things had
better be only mentioned in general.
Mother Florence could go into these
houses, into the red light places and
capture the girls attention when some
of the rest of us would be unnoticed.
She was the most cheerful soul that
ever lived. That was the secret of the
success of her work. She just couldn't
help but be happy"
Mother Florence is survived by a
husband, Robert Florence, age 70
years, and four children; two sons liv-
ing in Topeka, one daughter living in
Topeka, and one son in New York
Her home was on Arlington Heights,
west of the asylum. Her husband is
too feeble to support himself, and she
had taken care of him for number
of years. No one knows what Mother
Florence's maiden name was. Her
given name is Suzanne, but no one
ever called her bV it
Mother Florence was a good story
teller. 1t was one of her means to
keep people cheered up. She always
had yarn, no matter under what con-
ditions. Her favorite one, however,
was the following:
"I dreamt one night that I went to
heaven" said Mother Florence in tell
ing it, land when I got there I saw a
great many people standing around.
est. Peter 1 said, "who are these
people?''
"Those on the right said ST. Peter,
fare the Baptists. There on the left
are the Presbyterians; you can tell
them by their long faces and serious
looks. Here in the middle are the
Methodists-don't you hear them
are the Congregationalists. Just be-
hind the Presbyterians are the Seventh
Day Adventists.
''But, st. Peter 1 said, interrupt
ing him, these people are up SO close,
right in front. Who are those people
standing way back there?
"Ah,'' said st. Peter, those are the
Salvation Army ladies and lassies.
The Lord can trust them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
PAWNEE is JUBILANT.
Hot Winds Have Not Injured the Corn
Crop.

Larned, Kan, Aug. 26.-The corn crop
in Pawnee county this year will be ex-
ceptionallY fine as the rains in the early
part of the season came just at the
right time to give the corn a good start
until the corn was practically matured.
A very large acreage of the cereal was
planted this year and the yield is being
estimated all the way from forty to six
ty bushels per acre. The best fields are
in the semi-sandy lands south of the
Arkansas where the land is not so well
ADAPTED to the groMing of wheat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
weekly Bank Statement.

New York, Aug. 26.-Statement of
averages of the clearing house banks
of this city for the week shows:
Loans S1,144,607, 900, decrease ST.
493, 500; Deposits $1,1S1, 0S4, 500. de-
crease $7,466,S0O circulation $52,310,-
700, increase $71S,600; legal tenders
$84,799, 900, decrease $4s9.7O0; specie
S219,450,30O, decrease $1,744,500 re-
serve $314,249, 800, decrease $2,244,-
200: reserve required 1926, 271,125, de-
crease S1.S66.7OO; surplus $S,97S,175;
decrease 1877, 500; ex-U. S. deposits
$114,94O,s75. decrease $734,4OO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
CLINE GOES EAST.
CITY Editor of Kansas City Newspaper
Is Called Up Higher.

kansas City. Aug. 26.-CeIbie C.
Cline, city editor of the Journal, has
resigned. to accept an executive posi-
ton with q newspaper association
with headquarters at Cleveland Cline,
who has been associated with Kansas
civ newspapers since 1894, is a bril-
liant writer He spent much of his
early life in Kansas, oklahoma and
Indian Territory. He was the first
mayor of Pond Creek, Okla, in 1888
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
A Touching Story

is the saving from death of the baby girl
of Geo A. Eyler. Cumberland, Nd he
writes: At the age of II months our little
girl was in declining health with serious
throat trouble and two physicians gave
her up We were almost in despair when
we resolved to try DR.. Kings New Dis
coyery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds The first bottle gave relief: after
ia king bottles she was cured, and is now
in perfect health" Never fails to relieve
and cure a cough or cold. At Arnold
Drug Co, s21 N. Kansas ave. soc and 81
Guaranteed. Trial bottle free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Frank Petro. Mrs W. S. BergundthaI,
Mrs. w. H. Rutter, Mrs. William J.
Lewis. Mrs H. c. Miner, Mrs. c. W.
Angle, Mrs. c. C. Nicholson, Mrs.
Samuel Ashmore, Mrs. S. E. Brown,
Mrs. Howard Hanna, Mrs. l.. A Ryder
Mrs. Mark Putnam, Mrs. T. B. Reyn-
olds, Mrs. Harry Guthrie, Mrs. G. C.
Bowman, Mrs. Oscar Wolf, Mrs. Earl
Graham, Mrs. z. D. Small of Delavan
Park, Miss Kimmerle. Miss Louise
Kimmerle, Miss KimbalI, Miss Curtis.
Miss Jeanette Wolcott and Miss
Martha Kimball
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
Public Is Aroused.

The public is aroused to lcnowIedge OF
the curative merits of that great medici-
nal tonic Electric Bitters. for sick stom-
ach, liver and kidneys. Mary II. Walters
Co. S21 N. Kansas ave Price SOC.
of FAC St Clair ave. Columbus o.. writes:
stFor several months l was given up to
die / had fever and ague, my nerves were
wrecked; could not sleep and my sforp-
ach was so weak from useless doctors
drugs that could not eat. Soon after be-
ginning to take the Electric Bitters OBJ
tanned relief and in short time was en-
tirely cured" Guaranteed at Arnold Drua
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
SHE PASSES ON.
Mother Florence, Salvation
Army Angel, Is Gone.
Succumbs to Injuries Received
in a Runaway.
A PUBLIC FUNERAL.
Body Will Lie in State at the
Auditorium.
What She Did to Bring Her
Fame and Honor.

With that prayerful benediction on
her lips, God bless you" which she
repeated times without number over
those of high and low estate alike dur
ing the thirty years she followed the
cross under the Salvation army flag,
Mother Florence, '"The Angel of the
Topeka Sums" died just before one
o'clock this morning at Keith's hos
pital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
New York and Philadelphia

cannot be more pleasantly or conven-
ientIy reached than by the Grand
Trunk-Lehigh Valley Double Track
Route via Niagara Falls Solid through
trains magnificent scenery
Descriptive literature sent free on
application to Geo. w. Vaux. A G. P.
& T. A., Grand Trunk Railway System.
1875 Adams ST. Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Miss Mabel Thomas and Miss Edna
Heap entertained Thursday evening at
a lawn party and platform dance at
the home Of Miss Thomas, in West
Sixth avenue. The lawn was lighted
by Japanese lanterns. Many ham
Knocks and coy corners were provided
for the guests on the lawn and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Head hunting Igorrottes at vinewood
this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

One young lady was heard to re-
mark the other day: 81 just hate to
see a girl 'frisk' after she is thirty
five
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

line party at the Air-Dome the
alter and a watermelon feast at the
home of the Misses Walker was en-
joyed by the following young ladies
wednesday evening: Misses Bell
Evarts, Pearl Owens, Ethel Wingett
Allie Wingett, Annette Webb of Win
field, Kas., Winifred Hadley, Helen
Walker. Ruth Walker, Dorothy Had
ley. They were chaperoned by Mrs
G. L. Walker and Mrs. r. L. Nesbaum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

pretty little brunette of Topeka.
quite talker and very popular, is
having a terrible time trying to de-
eide which she would rather do this
October, take a trip to California, a
trip to New York, or get married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
NORTH TOPEKA.

| [Lcave items for this column with KIM
ball Printing Co. 912 n. Kansas avel
Petro & Woodford, the druggists.
| j ] Sneck was in town to-day from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Mr.. Frank P. MacLennan and family
today moved to Cedar Crest, Martins
Hill. their country home. four miles
west of the city where they expect to
remain until November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Petro. Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Hoyes. Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Rutter, Mr.. and Mrs c. E. Jordan
had a picnic supper at Vinewood Fri
day evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Miss Kittie Fuller gave a o'clock
dinner Thursday evening at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. John Hand, compli-
mentary to Miss Lillian Lynch, of Chi
cago. Her guests were Mrs. Gus
Mackey, Mrs. Isaac Sheetz, Miss Mar
garet Hanley, Miss Sadie Baird, Miss
Mildred Baird, and Miss Katherine
Weber.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-15

to figure whether or not the propo-
sition is a profitable one.
At present the nearest cement mills
are at LaSalle, Illinois, on the east,
Yankton on the north and Hannibal,
Missouri on the south. Iowa has no
cement mandatory. 1t buys its
building material from other states
despite its coal Mines shale and lime
stone deposits.
The use of cement as building ma
terial is just beginning. 1t is the
building material of the future. The
lumber woods are gone from the north
and the price of lumber as building
material has set men looking for a
substitute. This has been found in
cement, which lends itself readily to
the needs of the builder. The demand
for cement has trebled within the past
three years. 1t will continue to in
crease in the same ratio. Why should
MT Iowa make Portland cement3
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-15
Foley's Honey and Tar.

Cures COUGHS and COLDS.
Cures bronchitis and asthma.
Cures Group and whooping cough.
Cures hoarseness and bronchial
troubles.
Cures pneumonia and la grippe.-B
"A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-15
THE SALOON AN OUTLAW.

Definitely settling the status of the
saloon before the law the supreme
court of Iowa decided Monday that
the saloon business is illegal and that
the mulct is what the term indicates a
tax in the nature of a fine, not Ii
cense. The decision states 1T is en-
tirely clear that the legislature may
impose a tax without legalizing the
business" The case was one in which
the plaintiff urged that the mulct tax
is license, but the court held that
against prosecution.
The decision seems to define the
place of the saloon very clearly. 1t is
not licensed to run, but is fined be-
cause it does run. Certain other lille
gal businesses in Iowa are treated in
the same fashion by municipalities.
They pay mulct into the treasury of
the city or in some instances pay n
mulct that should go into the city
treasury llOL DIS Il llCellSe Out DIS pell-
atty.
The saloon then in Iowa is not an
institution, but parasite. That is it's
legal definition and that is the major
ity Iowa idea of the saloon business.
The state of Iowa is not in the saloon
business as so many of our prohibition
friends are convinced, but denies the
saloon business status and classes it
with those other means of livelihood
and money making that are outside
the law. The saloon is outside the
pale. It is an outlaw and a quasi
criminal.
The decision is satisfactory Iowa
as a whole is opposed to the liquor
traffic. Even the average Iowan who
is no teetotaler looks askance at the
groggery. He endures, not approves
it. And this general sentiment is so
strong in the state that the saioonists'
business will never again gain legal
standing in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-15
TIE PRESIDENTS FAD.

President Roosevelt, before the
mothers congress ait Washington
preached again his gospel of child
bearing and the glory of motherhood
The president is the avatar of large
families, the pursuivant of plenteous
reproduction. Mr.. Roosevelt is as
strenuous in his reiteration of the
command to multiply and replenish as
in all his utterances on public ques-
tions. He told the assembled mothers
the grandeur of maternity the beauty
of self-Sacrifice for their families and
the splendidness of a life spent in
rearing children into good men and
women.
Mr.. Roosevelt has taken up a harm
less fad. Doubtless the mothers en-
joyed the presidents talk and were
impressed by his earnestness, but they
went away with their own ideas I'M
changed and these ideas did not in
clude families of dozen children.
Despite Mr.. Roosevelt's earnest and
cogent reasoning the day of big fam
lilies is well past. There is no race
suicide in this, but rational common
sense. The average American feels
that he can not rear huge family
to his own credit and the best interests
of his children.
President Roosevelt may talk till the
heavens fall, but he will not convince
bright, intelligent American women
that their whole duty lies in becom-
ing human incubators and brooders
There are other things in life as vital
to the world as the mere multiplica-
ton of mankind. Whatever the presi-
dent may think or urge the majority
will remain convinced that the size
of the family should conform to the
strength of the mother and the ability
of the father to provide for it.
Each succeeding generation requires
greater and greater equipment for the
work of life and its costs more to
raise a family properly nowadays than
it ever did. Roosevelts doctrine of
multiply and replenish is all right when
addressed to the middle classes and
fairly weH-to-do parents, but should be
equipped with reversible appliances
when addressed to the men and women
whose means to provide are confined
to meagre wage. 1t is all true that
no man can get the utmost from life
until he has become a father and there
is nothing in life, wealth, station or
public service, SO enobling or so COM
forting as the blessing of children in
the family, but the man who would
accept the presidents preaching should
first consider the demands of the age
FOR the equipment of the child and his
own ability to provide. Ten kids on
b1.50 per day, with the mother taking
IN washing, is not going to contribute
% the best citizenship in the future
yet the statisticians can prove that
The great middle classes of our pop
llation must heed the presidents doc
.rine or be distanced in the race of
by those who make no
effort to prevent natural forces run
hing riot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-15

are several millions more males than
females. But the United States takes
the lead of all countries in the relative
excess of males, many more men than
women coming here from Europe, altho
that is the only continent with an ex-
cess of females.
Mrs. HXon-You told me before we
We're married that | was the sunshine
of your life, and now you stay out late
every night.
Mr. Ilixon-Well, you can't have
sunshine after dark.-Chicago jour
nal.
They have a good business way of
holding auctions in Japan The auc-
tioneer puts up the object to be sold.
and asks for bids Each bidder then
writes his highest price on bit of pa
per and deposits it in box. The
box is opened and the object is hand
ed over to the enc who has offered
the most.
Thomas A. Edison was riding on the
cars the other day in New Jersey. The
train was passing the country resi-
dence of H Nick. Twombley. Just
previously the inventor mad been read
ing part of the printed controversy
going on about the right of $l5-a-
week man to wear q dress suit.
"Once was q great guest over
here he said, pointing his finger over
toward the big house THAT stable
there looks like high school building.
But as / was saying | was especially
invited to a dinner there one evening.
When l appeared without dress suit
case. the butler VINO received me stood
aghast.
MY host showed me to q room, and
then summoned q valet. He stood be-
fore me obsequiously smiling. VIII
you have your bath now, sir" he ask
ed, and dress, or will you wait?
"'Dress!' answered, amt 1 dressed
now? How many more clothes would
YOU have me put on? And have had
a bath once today, and that is quite
a sufficiency-quite.' And l sat down
ia dinner in my old Prince Albert.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-15
Topics Of the Times

Hon. George l.. Dobson's beautiful
spring gives some indications of being
followed by broad jump.
Indiana has passed an anti-cigaret
law.
The girl who lets man bet her rich
es that she will be happy if she marries
him, always loses.
The Davenport Democrat says that
eff that single track across Siberia
had never been built Russia would not
have found out it's own Weakness
True enough. And if double-track
had not been built across Iowa certain
politicians would not have found their
strength. The law of compensat ton
holds.
Canal Commissioner Walker is likely
to be asked to show how he does it.
I. + ii
Since yesterday the pay of a Mis-
souri, legislator is a dollar a day.
The car insists that he is anxious
to shed his blood for his people and his
people, seem equally anxious to help
him do it.
A. w. Lanningham, agent for the
Iowa Children's Home, is in trouble
over couple Of Allgood boys, whom
he removed from Council Bluffs to the
home at Des Moines. Mr.. Cunningham
should plead great provocation. Any
one who ran across two all good boys
and didn't snap them up as a, curiosity
wouldn't steal even watermelons.
Black-"I saw a cowslip this morn
ing"
Brown-"Don't blame her. 1t was
pretty slippery"
Black-"But also saw a crocus."
Brown-"It was tired of winter,
uppose.-Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Washington, Iowa, is advertising in
the want column of the Gazette for
five men to run for councilmen of the
city. The present incumbents will not
serve again and the town seems to be
suffering from an overproduction Of
glory as no aspirants have come for
ward for the vacancies. No wonder
Howar Burrell finds time to snap week.
ly at Governor Cummins There's
nothing doing politically in Wash
ington.
The total output of the oyster indus
try in New York during the last year
was 6,0S2,960 bushels, according to the
annual report of superintendent Wood
of the shellfish bureau. Their value is
estimated at s7,6O3,70o Examination
of the tax lists would show Holsters
worth individually quite as much as
the whole oyster output.
The census statistics show that wom-
en- live longer thap men, on the aver
age and yet there are 1,63S,321 more
of the male sex in the United States
than of females, says the Philadelphia
Press In the world, as whole, at
least in that half of it which has been
counted with distinction Of sex, there