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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13
ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS
LVtle Girls Awful Suffering vulnerable
Skin HurnOr-SIeeplsSS Nights For
Mother-SpeedY Cure by CutIcura,

my little girl had been suffering for
two years from eczema, and during that
time l could not get nights sleep, as her
ailment was very severe. had tried SO
many remedies, deriving no benefit, / had
given up all hope. But as last resort 1
was persuaded to try Cuticura, ard one
box of the Ointment, and two bottles of
the Resolvent, together with the Soap, ef-
fected permanent cure. Mrs. l. B. Jones,
Addineton, Ind, T."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13
A HuFh Penant.

When the American cruiser New
Orleans came into San Francisco Bay
on January p, on her way from Guam
to Mare Island to be paid off and go
out of commission, she sported home
ward bound pennant $50 feet long.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

The horse SUI ply of the world Is
about eighty million animals. In Eu-
rope there are forty million, n North
and South America twenty-five million,
in Asia eleven million, In Australasia
two million and In Africa 100000.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

One size smaller after using Aliens Foo.
Ease, powder. 1t makes tight or new shoes
easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching
feet lngro wing nails, corns and bunions. A!
all druggists and shoe stores, acc. Don't ac-
cept any substitute Trial package FREE by
mall. Address, Allen s. 0lmsted, Leroy, MY.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

An American sailor belonging to a
war ship secured leave Of absence,
and had lively time at Gravesend,
England.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

An Official map of Paris on a large
scale has just been finished. 1t is
twenty-five yards long and nearly
twenty yards wide.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

FITspermanently cured. Motifs or nervous
ness after Hrst days use OF DIR. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer, S2trlalbottle and treatise free
DIR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd. 1881 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13
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1t is a curious fact that boys hair
grows One-half slower than girls.
In boys the average rate of growth is
three feet three inches In six years,
being an average of 01S inch a day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

do not believe Plso's Cure for Consume.
tionhas unequal for coughs and colds.--JoHS
]. BoYER. Trinity Sprlngs. Ind. Feb. Is. 1909.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

There are over million goats in Mon
tenegro.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

Mrs. Winslow's Soothluy Syrup for children
tssthing, soften the gums, reduces infamma-
ton ,allays pain cures wind collie, Csc. bottle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

Large oil wells have been discovered in
the northern part of Roumania.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

wnIcots are ca the Increase in Scot
lard,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13
Ladle, can Wsar shoa,

The food issued to the japanese soldiers
has lately undergone great change.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13
HAPPY WOMEN.

which were exceedingly variable, some
times excessive and at other times
scanty. The color was high, and pass
ages were accompanied with scalding
sensation. Doan's Kidney Pills soon
regulated the kidney secretions. max
ing their color normal and banished 'he
Inflammation which caused the scald-
ing sensation. can rest well, my back
is strong and sound and feel much
better in every way"
For sale by all dealers, price 90 cents
per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

st. Peters at Rome is in the form Of
cross 1886 feet long and $50 feet wide.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-13

1t Is said that large numbers of quail
in eastern Nevada are dying of ap.
pendicitis. NE19
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
TovE one Wav TRates.

every day from September Is to
october 81, 1906. inclusive. the Union
pscific will sell one way tickets as fol-
600 % to ogden and Salt Lake CITY.
$500 to Helena and Butte. Mont.
s22.5O to Spokane and Wenatchee,
=" $3.50 s22.50 to Huntington and Nampa.
io $500 to Portland. Tacoma and
$500 to Vancouver and Victoria.
$500 to Ashland and Astoria, Ore
con. via Portland.
$500 to SAM Francisco. Los An
reles and San Diego.
o+ySer California, Oregon, Washington
Montana, Utah and Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every day
IN Union Pacific between Missouri
river and Pacific coast; double berth
SE.75. For full information call on
or address nearest Union Pacific agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
SAVED PEOPLE OF MANrToU.
&. L. Loeb, Who Made Wild Ride
Down Mountain. Is Here.

L. L. Loeb, who saved the lives of
the residents in 1902 at the gay little
summer resort of Manitou, Col, by
warning them in advance of a cloud
burst, is in the city stopping with his
brother, Harry D. Loeb, at the Ma
tional hotel.
In wild ride down Ute pass ahead
of the cloudburst, a landslide caught
Loeb and his horse and precipitated
them over a cliff to the foot of Rainbow
Falls.
AS the result of that fail Loeb had
his left side completely paralyZed and
though twenty-eight operations since
then have permitted a little more free
display Of his left arm and leg, he is
still suffering from the effects of his fall
down a mountain side.
The cloudburst occurred OH the 5th
of August 1902. Loeb, who was q cow
boy, who lived at Green Mountain Falls
about six miles up Ute pass from Mani
tou, was riding down the pass at the
time the storm took place. Realizing
the danger that the residents in the lit
tie valley below would be placed in if
the flood of water caught them una
wares, he rode with the speed Of the
wind to sound the note of warning.
1.-THE people never gave me word of
thanks for it, said Loeb.
He is enroute from Los Angeles to
Chicago where he lives.
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TO John A. Mccall, President New
york Life Insurance Co.:

TO John A. Mccall, President New
york Life Insurance Co.:
sir-It is time your attention was
called to the moral sense Of the Amer
lean people. It is time you
were shown yourself as you are today
seen by the millions of your country
men, who, a month ago, believed you
to be a great and honorable man.
In spite of the terrible exposures of
the past few weeks, in
spite of the unwilling of the jugglery,
grating and corruption of your ad-
ministration of the most sacred trust
that can be conhded to man, you re-
main unconvinced Of your fall and IN
penetrated by your shame,
forgetting that the enemy against
whom your maneuvers were directed
was the American people, and that
your character and reputa-
ton were as absolutely before the bar
as though you had been indicted for
sequestratiOn Of the funds of some
dead friends wife.
You have made yourself the Gus
todian Of these funds under sacred
pledge of square dealing and honest
administration. You have made your
self the national executor of
the widow and the orphan
Hundreds of millions of dollars have
been confided to you annually-scOres
of millions of the nation have been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

ticuIarly on the Santa F7e, are to be
seen every day. and one would come to
the conclusion that these are about the
only cars on the divisions
The fact of the matter is that the ire
mendous grain and dried fruit crop in
what is called the valley" the F'res-
no country. has caused the pressing into
service of every available box car, leav-
ing the local divisions under the neces-
sity of using refrigerators as ordinary
box cars.
But. in spite of the fact that the
crop has been unusually large in grain
and dried fruits, not nearly SO many
cars will be required for its handling as
there would be if there had been no
fires. In Ventura alone, $1,000 acres Of
orchards and other lands have been laid
waste by the flames, while the loss in
other counties has also been heavy,
operating to diminish materially the
volume of business that would other
wise have been handled by the rail-
roads.
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CANNOT CASH TORN CHECK.
Strange Complication Follows Twen-
tieth Century Wreck.

Washington, D. c., Oct. 21.-One of
the strangest complications over a.
lnutilated check that has ever come up
has arisen between Breyman Broth
ers, contractors, of Toledo, and the
treasury officials. The contractors
were paid SIS, 900 in one government
check for dredging in Boston harbor.
The check was torn or burned in the
Twentieth Century Limited wreck,
near Cleveland a few months ago. The
signature and number are gone, but
the amount and the general outline Of
the check are preserved.
So far, the treasury officials will not
honor the check and 1t may require a
special act of congress for the con
tractors to get payment. The treasury
department offered to pay the sum if
Colonel Stanton, the distributing Of
ficer at Boston, would assume respon-
sibility, but he refused. Now the
treasury department has offered to
pay if Colonel Stanton viii identify
the remains as of the check issued to
Breyman Brothers. Under the law
of the treasury department no lost or
mutilated check for more than $2,50O
is duplicated.
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was particularly gratifying in view OF
the fact that a loss of over 81, 100000 in
exports of cotton had to be made else
where. Another splendid exhibition is
assured for October. the last week alone
at this port providing gains of SO, $751;
901 in imports and 81. 120, SOB in exports
as compared with last years figures.
Tanners have secured contracts for de-
the winter months to reduce activity
somewhat but there is no weakness Ow-
ing to the limited offerings.
Failures this week numbered 233 in
the United States against 215 last year
and 80 in Canada compared with So a
year ago.
Bradstreet.
Bradstreet's says: Trade reports
are rather more irregular, but industry
is still at high tension. Colder wealth
er now advancing is reported stimu-
lating retail trade and influences re-
order business with jobbers. Car
shortages are becoming more acute,
the Pacific coast now feeling their in
fluence, and grain, lumber, coal, coke
and ore shipments are delayed there
by, with effects on retail trade and col
lections.
The price situation is strong as a
whole, though some weaknesses. as in
sugar, corn, hog products and raw silk
and quiet in other lines of raw ma
terial, point to demand having been
satisfied. Nothing of this sort is,
however, indicated in hides. Wool is
quiet as whole.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending October
was ITS, against 1873 last week, 227
in the like week of 1904, 216 in 1903.
1914 in 1902 and 223 in 1901. In Can
ada failures for the week number g
! as against 81 last week and SO in this
week year ago.
Wheat. including -four. exports for
! the week ending October 10 are p
SS1,482 bushels, against 2.744,462 last
week, 1.O66.462 this week last year,
1926, 0S0 in 1903 and 7,06O,135 in
1902. From July to date the exports
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

The first direct result is the inyes-
tigation now being held. This investi-
CATION has proceeded far enough to
put before the public absolute proof
OF all the crimes have charged, and
three to thirty times as many more.
It Is now evident TO all that:
1st. The policy holders in the great
companies have yearly paid into their
company scores of millions more than
necessary.
I'd. The policy holders have been
robbed OF hundreds of millions.
Sd. The vast funds now on hand
have been habitually used by the
grafters now in control OF them in the
rankest kind Of stock gambling.
4th. These funds have been habitu-
ally used to corrupt the ballot box and
the lawmakers of the country.
repeat, absolute proof of all this
has been made public.
It should now be evident to all
that
list. The funds now on hand are in
actual jeopardy because they are in
the absolute control of unprincipled
scoundrels.
I'd. Unless something is done =
at once by the policy holders
every one of the largest companies
may become insolvent; that is, they
may not be able to meet the engage
ments of their policies, because of
waste of funds, tremendous falling of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

ments from your subsidized insurance
press, denying my charges. attacking
my character, all at the expense of
your policy holders and without their
approval.
You employed James NJ. Beck, ex-
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States, then and now chief at
torney for Henry h. Rogers, the
Standard Oil company, the System
and the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany, to ridicule my utterances and
asperse my honor in addresses in the
cities of Philadelphia and Boston.
You employed James H. Eckels, ex-
Comptroller of the Currency of the
United States, now president of the
Commercial bank and representative
of the System" in the west, to at
tack my arguments and dfstOrt my
motives in Chicago.
You ordered Vice President Perkins
of the New York Life Insurance COM
pany to perform similar service in
Philadelphia; and
The burden of all these documents,
advertisements and disguised adver-
tisements and addresses was: law
son is an unmitigated liar and scoun-
drel, whose sole reason for attacking
the insurance companies is that we
refused him insurance.
Today you and your fellow plum
derers stand convicted in the eyes of
the world, not only of juggling the
moneys of the widow and the orphan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

turned into your Golfers.
with this money you have been rig
ging syndicates, debauching Iegisla-
lures, manipulating stock markets
and doing other things which viii be
proven later. Instead of employing
the vast power and the immense
wealth intrusted to you to conserve
the interests of your policy holders.
you have made yourself a part of the
cruel robbing machine which the
System" has created to deprive the
American people of their savings.
Yet today you describe the investi-
cation being conducted into your op-
erations as an impertinence :
you are unrepentant. unashamed and
defiant.
one year ago, in Everybody's Mag
aZine, said:
1.-The officers, trustees and officials
of the Big Three life insurance COM
panies have been and are now squan-
dering their policy holders money.
They are grafters-mean. contempt-
ibIe grafters."
gave specific instances of their
thieveries.
You replied. not by haling me to
court, but by
Circulating throughout the world
documents by the millions, disparag-
ing my reputation by advertisements
and news and editorial state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

in the stock market, but of nanipu-
lating these trust funds for the benefit
of your own pockets.
Notwithstanding the tur-
pitude already exposed to the people,
you still imagine you can so conduct
yourself as to prevent the investi-
gators from fastening on you and your
associates the more desperate crimes
that have been committed in the past
the $50 to zoo millions stolen and
diverted or used in corruption. >
But you have mistaken the tempers
of your countrymen.
have been authorized in writing
by over 10000 policy holders, carry
ing over fifty-four millions OF insur-
ance, to act for them.
had intended to await the finish of
the New York investigation before
proceed ding, but as have had placed
in my hands during the past few days
evidences of the determination of
yourself and your aceomplices and
fellow conspirators to face it out re-
gardless of consequences, and as I be-
heve men capable of committing the
acts that have been proved during the
past few days fully capable of taking
the transportable part of the billion
and a quarter funds to foreign copn-
tries, and using them to keep them
selves from their justly deserved pun
ishments, I have decided to act now.
Thomas w. Lawson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

of new business, tremendous cost Of
new business. and the nature of the
new business-so-eaIled graveyard
business" for am credibIy informed
that they are now seeking to insure
those who formerly have been refused
insurance because Of physical inhrm-
tiles.
It should be plainly evident that If
the policy holders move, and move
quickly. they can be absolutely as
sured that:
1st. The funds as they are today
viii remain intact.
I'd. They viii be added to by the
restitution Of from $T5,00Os0O0 to
$780, 100000.
Sd. A score of the thieves who have
plundered policy holders in the past
viii be sent to prison.
4th. The future payments Of policy
holders win be largely cut down.
5th. The present swollen SURPRISES
win be returned in large part to policy
holders.
9Th. In the future policy holders
will actually run the company.
9TH. All policy holders can be as
sured that in the future they will re-
ceive the actual worth of their policy
at surrender.
All this being so, it Is most emil
nently desirable for policy holders to
act, and at once.
Thomas W. Lawson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
Los Angeles. san Diego, San Francisco
Every Day for S25 via Santa Fe.

Cheap. isn't it? Passengers get just
as good service at this low rate as they
do when rates are higher.
Fast trains, modern Pullman tourist
sIeepers. free chair cars and couforta-
HE dav coaches. California trains leave
topeka at LIS p m. and 10 p. m.
liberal stopovers in California and all
,,anv other points en- route.
Won can buy a ticket to Salt River
valley. and many other points in Ari-
iona for same price.
Santa Fe is line with block signals,
rock baIlasted track, modern equipment.
Harvey meals and fast trains. The very
best people always use Santa Fe.
Further particulars on request
T. L. KING, c. P. & T. A..
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
Nay Co. Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
BUSINESS BRISK.
Activity in Commercial Channels
Continues to Broaden.
No Disposition to Start a Boom
Is Apparent.
MANY SPRING ORDERS
Have Already Reached JObbers
and Manufacturers.
The Car Shortage Continues to
Grow More Acute.

New York. Oct. 21.-Dun's Weekly
Review Of Trade says:
Activity broadens in commercial
channels, and confidence expands be
cause of the many evidences of conser-
vatism. Business is brisk and improv-
ing, yet there is no disposition to start
a boom either in commodities or Sc
curities. Manufacturers receive liberal
orders for remote deliveries, many deal
ers having covered spring requirements
and shipping departments are toward
ing as freely as traffic facilities win per-
init. Current retail trade is not equal
ing expectations but this is attributed
TO mild autumn weather and prepara-
tions for the future are undiminished.
Statistics of foreign trade eclipsed all
September records last month, which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
To Life Insurance POLICY Holders.

To Life Insurance Policy Holders.
At the beginning of my story. near
~ a year and half ago. made GER
tain accusations against the manage
ment of the three big life insurance
companies.
I knew when began my story that
the big life insurance companies were
in the hands Of grafters and thieves,
just as are the great banks. trust COM
panies, railroad companies, and big
corporations and trusts.
This know, and, in plain language,
said it.
Today the press of the world is de-
voting its space, news and editorial,
to a recital of the contemplate and
heinous crimes of the New York Life
and the Mutual Life Insurance COM
panies-not as I relate them, but as
their own officers and trustees pub
ucly confess them.
In the July installment Of my story
I called upon policy holders to sign a
coupon blank inserted in EverybOdy's
Magazine, and send same to me that
I might speak for them in a plan to
further their interests.
In response to my call I have re-
ceived up to today, october 4, 16,307
answers, representing $55, 165,916.
AS soon as I received a number of
signatures sufficiently large to warrant
it. I quietly began operations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
are You Interested In a Fast Growing
GOuutFyY

The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way company will furnish reliable in
formation regarding many desirable
locations in the west and northwest on
fits lines for industrial adjustments.
Hotels, banks, stores, produce buyers,
lumber dealers, brick yards and other
excellent business opportunities.
Full information regarding cheap
lands in this fertile territory. All the
particulars desired by prospective set
tiers are promptly furnished upon ap-
pIication to agents Of the Northwestern
Line, or to ". 3. Kniskern, Passengers
Traffic Manager, Claicnga
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

are 22.705,319 bushels. against 2O,972.-
34S last year, 49,8O6,75 in 1908, and
83,S26,317 in 1902. Corn exports for
the week are 776,435 bushels, against
962,474 last week, 1888 a year ago,
1,SO9,885 in 1908 and 84,564 in 1902.
From July 1 to date the exports of
corn are 17,269,326 bushels, against
S45,777 in 1904, 17.050.546 in 1908,
and 1.578a46 in 1902.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
Bank Clearings.

New York, Oct. 21.-The following table,
compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank
clearings at the principal cities for the
week ended October IS, with the percent
age of increase and decrease as compared
with the corresponding week last year:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

Albuquerque, n. NJ, Oct. 21.-Al-
though the citrus fruit season is not
fairly opened. refrigerator cars are be-
coming daily more prominent on the
railroads. Long trains Of them, par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
An Open Letter to John A. Mccall
President New York Life Insurance COMPANY

Ee n after anil may ryoomo
d every
ie gee Mover o " dat hn Q Mr. Lawson Ite8 mham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
SIS no CALIFORNIA POINTS.

Totals in U. s.. 80. ISL. $50. 269 ID
Outside N. ". 1,044. 246, GIL 1917
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ONE way CoLONIsr RATES
To California. oregon. Washington
Idaho. Montana and Utah.

Rock Island System. $500 to Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington;
$4,000 to Utah and Idaho; $500 to
Montana points. Tickets on sale daily
Sept 1st to Oct. 31st, 1905. For fur
Their information see Rock Island
agents A NJ. FULLER, c. P. & T. A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

It's mistake to imagine that itching
piles can't be cured; a mistake to suffer
q day longer than you can help. Doan' s
Ointment brings instant relief and perma-
nent cure. At any drug store. 50 eant~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21
DRIED FRUIT CROP BIG.

Railroads Would Have Had More to
Handle Had There Been No Fires.