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The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-13
HOT AFTER THE REBATERs.
Attorney General Moody Directs En-.
fOrcement of EIISins Law.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Attorney Cen
eral Moody has sent a circular letter
to all United States district attorneys,
IS in number, directing them vigilantly
to enforce the provisions of the Elkins'
act against rebates and determinations
of all kinds by carriers. The method Of
proceeding suggested is by way of in
dictments. 1t is the expectation that
this letter will result in prompt investi-
cation of all complaints made of dis
examinations BY carriers. followed by
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-13
n1r and Nf1.s- Chafree Go East.

Junction City, Kas.. Dec. 1S.-Lieut.
Gen. Adna R. Chaffee and Mrs. Chaffee
have left for Washington. They came
from the Pacific coast and visited rela-
tives here.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-13

has not been heard of since. He was a
man Of good habits. He was here the
day he left home and talked with a
friend Later he wrote a letter from
Arkansas City to his wife. He has been
lost since that time
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-13

Lawrence. =Kas., Dec. 13-Two hundred
''bohunk'' Iaborers who have been
working on the railroad here for the last
six months have just been displaced by
Japanese laborers-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-13

and an attempt will be- made to get a
state appropriation at the next session
of the legislature.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15

there is in this way a great saving In
the amount of metal needed on the
road
Fifth.-There is a great saving in
manual labor, and repairs are more
readily and effectively made.
There are different classes OF rollers.
The horse rollers, weighing six or eight
tons, will do fairly we'll If steam
roller cannot be afforded, but the horse
roller is not sufficiently heavy for the
best results. 1t has to be used much
longer than the steam roller. The feet
of the horses, in exerting sufficient
strength to move the roller, sink into
and disturb the road metal ana injure
the shape and quality of the roadway,
while OH hills it is at disadvantage.
The steam rollers are Of various
weights, ranging from eight to twenty
tons. Rollers of fifteen tons weight are
those generally used by the towns and
cities of Ontario. The cost of horse
rollers is usually about 500 per ton, or
from $500 to 5000 each. Horse rollers
are, however, generally so constructed
that the weight may be increased by
iron castings, so that roller OF five
tons may be made to weigh about
eight Steam rollers cost about $4,000.
For operation horse roller with two
teams will cost Sc per day. A steam
roller will cost $40 day, including in
terest and depreciation, but will do sew
eral times the amount Of work done by
q horse roller. so that the saving in
operation is considerable.
The objection to the purchase or
steam rollers by townships Is their
cost. 1t is, however, but matter of
time when this will be overcome. The
price may or may not be reduced, but
in the meantime an appreciation OF
good roads will grow, the value of good
roads will be more realized, rural popu-
lation, wealth and traffic must in
crease, so that all influences VIII tend
toward the gradual use of steam rollers
by townships. Counties. towns and cit
les are finding that they must use
them. From the Eighth Annual Re
port of the Commissioner of Highways
of Ontario.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15

DO bachelors die young? DO they
die earlier than married menf' asked
single man. at would seem so. was
lust reading report which seems 10
argue strongly in favor of the matrimo-
NAL idea. The report shows that the
mortality among bachelors from the
age of thirty to forty-five years Is said
to be 81 per cent, while among married
men of the same age 1t Is IL per cent.
For forty-one bachelors who attain the
age of forty years there are seventy
eight married men who attain the same
age. The difference is still more strik-
Ing I'm persons of advanced age. AT
sixty years of age there remain but
twenty-five bachelors for forty-elgnt
married men, at seventy years eleven
bachelors for twenty-seven married
men and at eighty years three bache-
lors for nine married men, These ng-
ures seem to indicate that the best
thing for man to do is to get him q
wife and shake wearing cares OF BACH
elorhood. We all want to live as long
as possible and live happily II we can.
Some bachelors are reasonably happy.
But all of them are not. Get married.
That's the proper caper." = as :
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

1t is well to take time in thinking be-
fore making accusations.
A woman who can use her eyes with
effect is a dangerous rival.
Women take fright easily over low
er's compliments to another Of the fair
sex.
There is a species of treason in carry
ing water ON both shoulders in a love
affair.
In every man there is q disposition to
do the grand where women are con-
cerned.
1t hurts a woman's pride to have an
other woman share with her a mans
attention
When one man sneers at another it Is
fair to presume jealousy is at the bot
tom of it.
When a man regards himself as IT.
resistble it is time to do some quiet
thinking and self Observation-Disclosures
phia Bulletin.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15

Birds Mt Times Get Confused md
Lose Their Bearings

Boys are frequently lost in the woods,
and IL is singular fact that birds are
sometimes lost in the air. This might
seem strange to almost any one, but
the ,erage man is superficial OBJ
server of little things.
In the far north, and particularly
along the ocean coasts, birds are fire.
quently storm driven and lose their
bearings. 50 that many of them are lost
at sea. They keep floating in the air,
aimleSsly striving to live until exhaus-
ton compels them to drop into the ar
cry waves. which engulf them.
There is well authenticated case OIL
record of an ocean liner bringing into
New York on winters day large
white owl which had dropped to one
Of the forward spars in an exhausted
condition more than 800 miles off the
coast Of Newfoundland. 1t was near
ly dead from cold and hunger and al
most too weak to eat anything. 1t had
become much emaciated and trembled
In its distress when 1t tried to swal-
low the first morsel of meat which was
placed within its beak The captain
and sailors were all interested in 1t,
and under their nourishing care it
slowly recovered and became entirely
well and healthy and strong. 1t will
ingly remained with the ship after
ward.
II was evidently land bird which
had been blown off from the coast Of
Newfoundland by strong west winds.
had become lost. merely drifted be-
fore the gales. kept out Of the water,
almost starved to death and made its
last intelligent effort to reach the ship
and there fell in exhaustion and col
lapse.
Old sailors narrate many other In
stances of finding birds that have been
lost In the air.-St. Louis Republic.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
The Typical Irish Gentleman

"There isn't anything like the intem-
perance In Ireland nowadays that there
used to be-" said the Hon. Vincent
Kennedy, member of parliament from
County Cayan, to Washington Post
reporter at the New Willard. The typ
ical Irish gentleman, as depicted In the
fiction of Lever and Lover, who did
nothing but ride to hounds, fight duels
and drink whisky, no longer can be
found. Indeed his habits were always
considerably exaggerated in the roman
tic creations of these authors. Today
in Ireland the cause Of temperance is
making substantial progress. The peo-
pie are taking the pledge by the hun
dreds. I know plenty of men who
move in the same circles with myself
who never touch a drop of ardent spir'
It's"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
THE COST.
Appalling Tribute which America
Pays to the Liquor Dealers.

Appalling Tribute which America
Pays to the Liquor Dealers.
According to the facts published by
the Church Economist, the liquor traf-
fc for the year 1903 cost the nation the
following startling summary:
twenty-five hundred babies were
smothcred by drunken mothers.
Five thousand persons committed
suicide.
Sixty thousand fallen girls through
drink.
Three hundred thousand paupers.
Three thousand murdered wives.
Seven thousand and nineteen addi-
tional murders.
Forty thousand widowed mothers.
One hundred thousand orphaned chill
dren.
One hundred thousand insane.
One hundred thousand criminals.
One hundred thousand died drunk
ards.
In addition to this, a minister in Bos-
ton compiled statistics carefully CLEAN
ed from clippings and tells us that
$4,000 boys formed the habit of drink
ing intoxicating liquors and are in line
to keep up the professions Of victims
of this modern Moloch. - Marie G.
Brehm in Union Signal.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
DINING IN JAPAN.
IL It's Your First Japanese Meal You
VIII Have Trying Time.

IL It's Your First Japanese Meal You
VIII Have Trying Time.
If it's your first japanese dinner
you're having a dreadfully hard time.
In the first place you must sit on the
floor, for they don't have any chairs In
japan. You kneel down, and then you
turn your toes in till one laps over the
other. and then you sit back between
your heels. At first you are quite
proud to find how well you do it, and
you don't think it's so very uncomfort-
able. But pretty soon you get cramp-
cd, and your legs ache as if you had
toothache in them. You don't say any
thing. because you think that If the
Japanese can sit this way all day long
YOU ought to be able to stand 1t few
minutes. Finally both your feet go to
sleep. and then you can't bear 1t
moment longer. and you have to get
up aud stamp around the room to
drive the prickles out Of your feet, and
all the little dancing girls giggle at
you. This isn't your only trouble Ell
Their. All you have to eat with is a
pair Of chopsticks, and you're in terror
lest you spill something on the dainty
white mating floor Now the floor of
a japanese house isn't just the floor;
it's the chairs and sofas and tables
and beds as well. At home it would
be mortifying enough to go out to din
ner and spill something on the floor,
but in Japan, where people sit and
sleep on the floor, it seems even worse.
So you are unhappy till your little ne
san (who is the waitress and almost
as prettily dressed as the dancing girls,
but not quite comes laughing TO your
aid and shows you how to hold your
chopsticks. After that you manage
nicely the rice and the omelet but the
fish and the chicken you can't cOntrive
to shred apart without dropping your
chopsticks all the time. So between
dances the maiko-the little girls about
twelve years old-kneel down beside
you and help you. They can't keep
from giggling at your awkwardness,
but you don't mind; you just glggle,
too and everybody giggles and has a
lovely time.-St. Nicholas.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
HIGHWAY BUILDING.
THE VALUE OF A GOOD ROAD ROLLER
IN THIS WORK.

Great Saving In Manual Labor and
Repairs Is More Effectuaily Made.
Different Glasses of Rollers and
Their Cost.
For economical, durable and service
able roadmaking heavy roller is In
dispensable. A road should be suffi-
GENTLY smooth and compact to shed
the water readily to the side cutters.
If the gravel or other road metal Is
dropped from the wagon loosely on
pOft earth foundation water passes into
the subsoil as through sieve. Wheels
passing over the road when In such
condition at once sink into and rut not
only the gravel but the earth beneath.
Water is held in the ruts, and each
succeeding vehicle renders their condi-
ton worse The road is less durable,
since the gravel, being mixed with the
earth from beneath it, contains, when
finally consolidated, dusty, easily
worn surface.
The consolidation Of loosely spread
stone OF gravel by traffic is slow
process. causing much Inconvenience to
travel, during which the earth OF the
subsoil becomes mixed with the stone.
Each intermixed with the stone pre-
vents the strong mechanical bond
which clean metal will assume when
the stones are wedged one against the
other by roller. The particles OF
earth when wet have lubricating In
fluence on the stone, and under the ac-
ton of wheels the surface is more
readily broken up. BY the use OF a
roller the earth subsoil should be first
thoroughly consolidated. The stone
should be placed on this foundation in
LAYERS and each layer well compacted.
In this way a smooth, durable, water
proof coating Of stone, free from
earthly material, can be laid over
firm foundation. \ road should be
made for traffic, not by 1t. To leave
loose gravel and stone In the roadway
is neither an agreeable method or con-
structing road, nor will it produce the
most durable road.
Among the benefits to be derived
from the use of a roller on country
roads are:
First.-A good road is at once made
for vehicles.
Second.-A dirt track is not made
near the ditch, to avoid pile of loose
stone or gravel, so that the sides of
the road is not cut up in such way as
to interfere with surface drainage.
Third.-Trafiic is not inconvenienced
in the fall by being forced to drive
through loose gravel or crushed stone
Fourth.-The gravel or stone Is not
forced down into the subsoil by the
wheels and feet of the horses, is not
churned and mixed with the earth, and
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
COrrecgiO and His Life.

Little is known of Correggio, which
would argue that lie was of a retiring
disposition. He was born in the little
town Of Correggio, twenty-four miles
from Parma. In the latter city he was
educated, but in his seventeenth year
an outbreak of the plague drove his
family to Mantua. BY 1914 he was
back in Parma. For some years he
worked here and painted many famous
pictures. 1t may have been because Of
grief over the death of his young wife.
but at the age of thirty-six, indiffer-
ent to fame and fortune, he retired to
the little town where he was born. All
that is known regarding his death Is
the date, March 5, 1534.-Charles Fl.
Cafin in ST. Nicholas.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
LIQUOR AND LONGEVITY.
That Alcohol Increases Mortality II
shown by Statistics.

Tnnt AlcOnOl increases mOTthhty IN
shown by Statistics.
At the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Association of Life Insurance Ex-
aiming Surgeons DR.. L. ID. Crothers
Of Har. ford. Conn, read a paper en-
titled How Far Does the Moderate Use
of Alcohol Affect LongeyityT'
He maintained that recent scientific
study has shown that alcohol Is a de-
pressant even in small doses and that
Ii dis,urbs the blood circulation and
deranges the metabolism of the body.
Experience, he said, proves that small
quantities of spirits retard growths In
animal life as well as IN the vegetable
world. Besides its poisonous effects,
alcohol literally produces starvation.
English statistics practically show that
it increases mortality and diminishes
longevity in from % to 40 per cent Of
all cases.
Studies Of heredity prove that the
moderate drinker IS a greater risk than
the total abstainer and that his NOR
tally is increased, the risk being in
creased with the amount of spirits
taken. He claimed also that no other
poison Is so dangerous, both directly
and indirectly, in diminishing the vital
forces.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
HEAD SOLID SORE
Awful Suffering Of Baby and
SleepIeSs Nights Of
Mother.
CURED BY CUTICURA
Skin Fair as a Lily with no Scar
to Recall Awful Sore
Writes Mother.

"I herewith write out in full the be-
ginning and end of that terrible disease
eczema" says Mrs. VIM. Ryer, Elk
River, Mimi, (which caused my babe
untold suffering and myself many
sleepless nights. My babe was born
seemingly a fair, healthy child, but
when she was three weeks old SWELL
ing appeared on the back of her head,
and in course of time broke. 1t did
not heal but grew worse, and the sore
spread from the size of dime to that
OF dollar. / used all kinds OF RENE
dies that I could think of, but nothing
seemed to help; in fact, it grew worse.
Her hair fell out where the sore was,
and feared it would never grow again.
1t continued until my aged father came
on a visit, and when he saw the baby
he told me to get Cuticura Soap and
Ointment right away.
"To please him did so, and to my
surprise by their use the sore began to
heal over, the hair grew over it, and
to-day she has a nice head of hair, her
skin is as fair as lily, and she has no
scar left to recall that awful sore, and
it is over eight months and no sign OF
its returning"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
DON'T RECOGNIZE DEFEAT.
reOye Your Manhood by Battling ON
Draycly After Rcverses.

Bravcly After Hcverses.
After 1900 of Napoleon's soldiers
had been overwhelmed by the advance
OF $4,000 Austrian troops he addressed
them thus: Il am dlspleased with you.
You have evinced neither discipline nor
valor. You have allowed yourselves to
be driven from positions where a hand
full of resolute men might have arrest
ed an army. You are no longer French
soldiers. Chief of staff, cause it to be
written on their standards, They are
no longer of the army Of Italy -"
In tears the battered veterans re-
Piled I'VE have been misrepresented.
The soldiers of the enemy were three
to one Try us once more. Place us
in the post of danger and see If we do
not belong to the army Of Italy" In
the next battle they were placed in the
van, and they made good their pledge
by rolling back the great Austrian ar
my.
He Is pretty poor sort of man who
loses courage and fears to face the
world just because he has made a mis-
take or a slip somewhere, because his
business has failed, because his prop
erty has been swept away by some gen.
eral disaster or because Of other trou-
BILE impossible for him to avert.
This is the test Of your manhood,
How much is there left in you after
you have lost everything outside of
yourself? If you lie down now, throw
up your hands and acknowledge your
self worsted there is not much in you.
But If with heart undaunted and face
turned forward you refuse to give up
or to lose faith in yourself, if you scorn
to beat a retreat, you will show that
the man left In you is bigger than your
loss, greater than your cross and larger
than any defeat.
Il know no such unQuestionable
badge and ensign Of sovereign mind"
said Emerson. "as that tenacity of pur-
pose which. through all changes OF
companions or parties or fortunes,
changes never bates no jot Of heart or
hope, but wearies out opposition and
arrives at its port"
1t is men like Ulysses S. Grant, who,
whether in the conflict of opposing ar
mics on the battlefield or in the wear
and tear of civic strife, fighting against
reverses, battling for competence for
his loved ones, even while the hand OF
death lay chill upon him, dates no jot
of heart or hope" that wiring victory
from the most forbidding circum-
stances. 1t is men like Napoleon, who
refuse to recognize defeat, who declare
that impossible is not in their vocab-
ularics that accomplish things.-Suc-
cess.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
M Planners In japan.

With all our high wages and boosted
civilization the fact remains that you
will SEE more wretchedly poor in any
Of our great cities in day than you
will see in Japan in lifetime. In
other words. you will see no destltu-
ton in Japan. Though some are very
poor. yet all seem to be we'll fed. cloth
ed and housed and are invariably
cheerful and. what is more surprising,
invariably clean. There are no paupers
in Japan and therefore no warehouses
or poorhouses, though there are many
hospitals where the sick are healed
gratuitously. Practically every one can
earn living. Would that we could say
the samei-Pnil Mali Gazette
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
The Dill Wa. Not In the Senate

One of Senator Fryes scintillauons
as presiding officer, when the Philip
pine bill was near its passage In the
senate, should not be lost to the world.
Such measures, till perfected, are con-
sidered in committee of the whole, not
in the senate, as the term goes. The
distinction is of little popular sig
nificance, but of great parliamentary
Importance.
Senator Bacon. wishing to make a
certain motion, was Informed that the
bill was not in the senate, but in COM
mittee of the whole.
ooh, l thought we were in the SEN
ate" replied Mr.. Bacon.
1--WE are in the senate" Mr.. Frye re-
sponded. but the bill is not."-Wash-
ington Post.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
TWENTY YEARS. SLEEP.
Rip Van wrinkles Case May Have
Been More Fnct Than Fiction.

Been More Fnct Than Fiction.
Even superficial students of folklore
know that the tale of Rip Van Wrinkle,
supposing that Irving really heard 1t in
the old Dutch settlements along the
Hudson, is by no means peculiar to
that district, but Is found in some form
or other oil over the world. In other
words. the idea that It is possible for
human being to survive In a state OF
Inconsistencies for very long time
vould seem to be either universal
fancy or to be founded on some actual
experience.
DIR. Lancereaux in the Paris Bulletin
of the Academy Of Medicine reports
such an experience, the case Of wo-
man who actually did, so far as intelli-
gent consciousness was concerned
sleep almost exactly twenty years.
The patient, of neurotic and hyster-
zeal family, had always been delicate
and nervous. On May 81, 1883, she
was severely frightened and fell into
violent hysteria, which after twenty
four hours passed into unconscious
ness. In this condition, interrupted ey-
ery month or six weeks by sudden con-
vulsive attacks, she lay until May 20,
1908. kept alive entirely by injections
Of nourishment.
On MAY % she was seized with hys-
terra similar to that at the beginning
of her sleep, and the next day there
was another CONFUSION. On May 70
she began definitely to recover con-
seriousness and by the next day was
able to speak intelligently of events
before her sleep and could also remem-
Der from day to day since her waxing
OF happenings during her sleep, such
as the drawing Of some of her teeth,
she knew nothing. On the evening OF
May % she died peacefully.
The particular case Is Of interest
chiefly to the medical profession, but
the general fact of survival in uncon-
seriousness for very long time shows
how such tales as those Of the Sleeping
Beauty, the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
and Rip Van Wrinkle, to mention only
the most familiar examples, could have
originated from actual experience and
observation. Very likely such cases oc-
Cured more than once.
Truth is stranger than fiction runs
the old saying 1t is undoubtedly more
correct to say that fiction is merely en-
lareed. reduced, distorted and other
wise decorated fact and that without
fact within general knowledge from
which to start fiction could not exist
1t is entirely safe to conjecture that at
some prehistoric period, sleeping not
out of doors, of course, but under shell
ter, and for many weeks and probably
months, if not years, there was KIP
Van Winklc.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-02-15
NEW JERSEYS BARKEEPERS
They Outnumbcr Her ClerEymen
Nearly Three to One.


New Jersey has $50 saloon keepers
3,C10 barkeepers, 1920 in all, busy day
and night making drunkards and Grim
inals. with 2,G22 clergymen trying to
counteract this evil influence.
In Camden three citizens counted
1905 men going into corner saloon
one Sabbath between Z q. m. and o p
m. 1t Is needless to ask why the men
are not in the churches. Essex and
Hudson counties contain more than
third of the population of our state
Newark, the largest city In Essex, has
1888 saloons, requiring $50 policemen
to make $500 arrests. Jersey City, In
Hudson county, has 1.021 saloons. 2JC
policemen. 1913 arrests.
The taxpayers maintain for these
jails. prisons, penitentiarles, reforma
tories. police stations. judges, juries
lawyers, all requiring salaries, court
fees. costs of prosecutions, etc.-Mrs
Emma Bourne, State President W. c
T. L.