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Bank of Germany.

BERLIN. December 3.-The weekly
statement Of the Imperial Bank of Ger
many shows the following char yes: Cash
in hand decreased 1890. 900 marks treas
ury notes increased CSC, 600 marks. other
securities increased 2S,54O COO marks, notes
in circulation increased 70. 100000 marks.
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Robbers Assault a Princess,

TIFLIS. Trans-Caucasia. December "a
band Of twelve robbers yesterday attacked
the estate of Princess Avalova, plundered
her residence and assaulted the princess.
They were captured later and will be tried
today by drumhead court-martial
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NEW YORK COTTON, Pm
Liverpool Prices.

LIVERPOOL, December 3.-12:30 pm
Cotton-Spot in fair demand; prices barely
steady; American middling. 6.O6 The sales
Of the day are estimated at 5000 bales, in
Guiding 500 for speculation and export. Re
ceipts. 1900 bales. including 12700 Ameri-
can. Futures opened easier and at 2;30
pm. were steady.
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Death Of Stephen Bates.

dents OF Washington. and a former resi-
dent of Massachusetts,, died in this city
today at his home, 1885 1th street. The
interment will be in North Weymouth,
Mass
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Paying Peoples Savings Bank De-
positors

In accordance with the announcement
heretofore made in The Star. Mr.. John w
Schofield, receiver Of the Peoples Savings
Bank, today began paying the depostors
of that institution in full.
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It matters little what It Is that you
want-whether a situation or a servant
"a want" ad. In The Star will reach the
person who can I'LL your need.
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New York Stock Market.

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CURB QUOTATIONS.

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Closing Quotations.

Closing Quotations
It tho close OF the stock market the fol-
lowing stocks had changed In price since
above quotations. there being no change in
balance of the closing prices:
Amalgnmatsd Copper, 113H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-30

Slavery exists quite openly through
out Bihe in the three forms of family
slavery among the natives themselves,
domestic slavery to the Portuguese
traders, and slavery on the plantations.
The purchase of slaves is rendered
east r by certain native customs, es-
pecially by the peculiar law which
gives the possession of the children to
the WIFE s brother, even during the life
time OF both parents. The law has
many advantages in a polygamous
country, and the parents can redeem
their children and make them their
own property by various payments, but,
unless the children are redeemed, the
WIG brother can claim them for the
payment of his own debts or the debts
OF his village. I think this is chiefly
done IN the payment OF family debts
Tor Witchcraft, and I have seen a case
in which, for q debt Of that kind. a
own child herself. Her brother had
murdered her eldest boy, and, going in
to the interior to trade, had died there.
OF course his wives and other relations
charged her with witchcraft through
her murdered boys spirit, and she was
condemned to pay a fine. She had
nothing to pay but her two remaining
children, and as the girl was married
and with child, she was unwilling to
take her. So she paWned her little boy
to a native for the sum required.
though she knew he would almost GER
tainly be sold as a slave to the Portu-
guese long before she could redeem
him, and she would have no chance of
redress.
In that particular case, which hap
pened not very long ago. a missionary,
who knew the boy, advanced an OK in
his place; but the missionary's inter-
vention was, of course, entirely acct
dental, and the facts are only typical
of the kind of thing that is repeatedly
happening in places where there in no
one to help or to know
In a village in the northwest of Bihe
have seen a mamie headman of the
place-who has been gradually tempt
ed on by a Portuguese trader till he
has sold all his children and all the
other relations in his power for rum.
One morning he told his wife to smart
en- herself up and come with him to
the traders house. She appears to
have been a particularly excellent wo-
man, of whom he was very fond. Yet
when they arrived at the store he re-
ceived a key of rum and went home
with it, leaving his wife as the traders
property.
To show how low the price of human
beings will run I may mention a case
that happened in January, 1905, on
the Cuanza. just over the northeast
frontier of Bihe. I think noticed in
an earlier letter that there was much
famine there last winter and so it
came about that q woman was sold for
forty yards of cloth and a pig (cloth
being worth about fourpence q Yard,
and was brought into Bihe by the tri-
umphant -Harper's Week
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kansas CoMNENT


Here is a man who has been grabbed
up by the real religion. J. r. Peters,
living north Of Esbon, got a letter last
week from Andrew Hurst, who used TO
live here but now Of Congleton, Texas.
who wants to make right wrong do1ngs
OF eighteen years ago. The letter
reads. Enclosed find money order for
S. which pays for the damage I done a
sod house of yours about eighteen
years ago, and some watermeIons
stole about thirteen years ago. was
led into it by others. and am sorry for
it and hope you viii forgive me. 1
have been converted and am going to
make everything right with my fellow
man. I have served the devil for
twenty-four years but am going IL
serve the Lord the. balance of my ife.''
In conclusion he asks for the adj
dresses of several others with whom
he wants to get right" He has got
the right kind of religion-the kind
that makes a man want to pay his
debts, which is the genuine article ana
the kind that will stay with him.-Es-
bon Times
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TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

The probing Of the affairs Of the life
insurance companies by the Armstrong
committee not only started investiga-
ton of the business methods Of corpora
tons all over the country. but it seems
to have revolutionized the financial con-
ditions in the east.
Recently the Pennsylvania railroad
wanted to borrow $4,000, 900 on an issue
Of its bonds. A year ago these securi-
ties would have been snapped up by
some syndicate allied with the life in
surance companies.
But that is all past. AS a result Of
the changed conditions the company
was compelled to go to Paris for Tie
money.
In commenting on this circumstance
Henry Clews in his Weekly Financial
Review says: 1T must now be recog-
nized that the great life insurance com
panies. with their large SURPRISES. are
no longer available in case of necessity
for placing Of new stock and bond Is
sues. The latter must now meet the
market. which is a healthier method
though not always so acceptable to
railroad borrowers who have extensive
plans in view. This seeking in the open
lions is a new departure, and one that
is likely in the long run to be beneficial
Partisan bankers will be more critical
and disinterested in their judgment Of
such investments than the local syndi-
Gates, which formerly utilized the enor-
nous SURPRISES of our life insurance
companies to finance such operations.
The new method is less artificies, more
open and free of many objections in
separable from former methods.
In a few weeks congress will close.
perhaps by the middle of June. and the
market will be relieved from much of
the agitation which has recently been
so disturbing The street seems to
have had quite enough Of investigating
committees, and however beneficial they
may ultimately be the medicine for the
time being Is considered sufficient"
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record
He who kills time assassinates his
own opportunities.
The good opinion of some people
costs more than it is worth
The only reason some people have
for existence is to take up room.
The devil depends more on the
hypocrite than he does on the back
slider
The old maid who has never had A
lover is the first to give advice to q
girl about her love affairs.
/. The night-bloomfng cereus is COM
paratively rare but the blooming
idiot we have with US always.
Mrs. Duck-What are those two
chickens lighting about? Mr.. Drake
One of them called the other a son OF
an incubator.
Nell--Why are you mad at him7
Belle told him never to try to kiss
me again. Eell=And he did? Belle
No, he didn't.
Mr.. Cockroach@The doctor tells
me have one foot in the grave. M
Centipede-Oh, I wouldn't let a Iiftia
thing like that worry me.
Sunday School Teacher-What nth.
ical quotation can we apply to the iifs
Of John D. Rockefeller TONNE
Tuffnut-"De oily bold ketehes de
woim.
Mr.. Cityman-What are Won doing
Uncle Hiram ? Uncle Tirau,--T's1,
a-cratin' my corn. Mr.. Cityman-At
boxing your own ears. nhs
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atehison Globe. ]

Il I'm l4AS <1LCl4SOn tIIOOE.
It's too bad when a doctor is busv
The trouble is, careless people won't
notice a notice.
Some people even like to brag about
what others are worth.
A good looking man spends a lot Of
valuable time admiring himself.
A present Of mining stocks is a good
deal like stage money: OF no value.
I lack one thing" we heard a man
say today. on the street. We lack more
than that
A jealous woman may deny being
jealous until she is black in the face.
but she deceives no one
There Is one thing you may depend
upon: If you buy an automobile, peo-
pie will talk about you.
If people imagine the wall flowers at
dance do not have good time, they
are mistaken; they have a good times
roasting the dancers.
When a man proposes and a girl
asks him to wait for his answer. it is
a sign that, If she accepts, it win not
be for love, but because nothing bet
ter turns up.
We heard lot of men telling fish
ing stories today After hearing them
tell about an eighteen pound bass and
twelve pound croppie, we knew
they were not reliable, and went on.
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AYHA WKER JOTS

A polo tournament at TT Riley Is
planned for some time in June.
The Santa Fe is employing Mexicans
on track work in Republic county.
Clay Center claims to have the young
est Methodist presiding elder in Kan
sas.
A Junction City man claims to have
caught IA bass in two hours in a lake
near that place.
The Randall News says that the man
who predicted dry season has an
other guess coming.
Enough railroads are projected IN
western Kansas to make that part of
the state look ike a gridiron If all Of
them should be built.
Meriden claims to have been the resi-
dence Of a couple who lived to be over
20 PEARS old, both of whom were born
and died on the 18th OF the month.
A vein Of Koalline, II inches thick,
has been found at a depth OF 40 feet
in Cove county, and the people there
abouts feel that their fortunes are made
Since the report that an unusual
number of marriages followed the San
Francisco earthquake, got abroad. the
young women of Elk Falls are wishing
that a seismic disturbance would visit
that town.
A newspaper printed out in the short
grass country gives full particulars of
a double murder. emitting the names
of all the parties concerned. Such a
course is difficult to understand in view
of the fact that the victims couldn't
object.
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told me where you lived, I should have
lost you again.
IT suppose you would not have re-
garded that as a loss, she said stifIlys
since you have a sweethea
who said SOP he cried in amaze
ment
zone of the men, she answered.
THAT was why you left me"
rs that the reason why you did not
wait % he laughed. Because you we're
Jealous Of a six-year-ol tot2''
''She was twenty. II she was day"
THAT was the lady I was to help
he corrected. THE girl-ny girls
six She's the daughter of the man
who saved my life. I don't deny that
we are sweethearts, but you needn't be
Jealous. They live in garrison, and my
devotion to her is one Of the jokes or
the regiment
rs she the only one2" she asked
Ned shook his head
NO he admitted. then he laughed
as her face fell THE other one is
you. dear" he said gently. You know
you are.''-( Copyright. 1906, by E. c.
Parcells-)
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Iron the chleago Newa.l

When in doubt, listen to your wife
Most OF US do things merely because
other people do them.
Many loser eventually makes rooa
by making BLUM at winning.
shake the hands Of some people and
give some other people the shake.
No man with a strenuous. notba~-fr.
law is troubled with a swelled head.
II a woman's credit is good ata drv
goods store she never argues about the
price. - s'-S
Is not the cook who prepares a good
dinner greater than the man Tsho
makes the after dinner speech9 -
If. as the poet says a room hume
with pictures is a room hung v-if5
thoughts, what Is a board fence hume
with circus posters? -'s
Time flies 30 quickly after = man
celebrates the thirtieth anniveysa,.S- -
his earthly career that he frnarfuea
there Is quicksand in the houraIasSs.
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The grand settling of accounts" in
which Mrs. Compton and her mother
indulge at the close of a day spent in
the city, shopping, is an entertainment
which Mr.. Compton never misses If he
can help it. says the Youths Compan-
Now, mother" said Mrs. Compton,
when one of these occasions was
drawing to a close. "can you give me
the rs cents for that little pincushion ?
Then we shall be all straight once
more"
No said the old lady after an in
spection Of her assets, Il cant. have
only so cents in change"
Mrs. Compton looked worried, and as
sometimes happened, her husband en-
deavored to lend helping hand.
Your mother has a two dollar bill
there" he said. indicating one of the
old lady's. assorted piles. why doesn
she give you that, and you give her
that dollar and a quarter over there %
William" and his wife turned an
imploring and reproachful face toward
him, don't mix US all upi That two
dollars is what paid mother ten min
utes ago for my share of Cousin Lucy 8
down puff And this dollar and quar-
ter is her share of Cousin Edwards
ash-trayi If we turned and twisted
things back and forth in the ways you
suggest We should never know where
we were AS it is, mother has the
fifty cents 1 gave toward Katherine's
dolls tea set all mixed in with the
money Lucy gave her, and we don't
know how it happened, with all Of our
axacf met h0dSff'
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The southern farmers are getting into
the trust busting game by securing 80
indictments against the fertilizer COM
bine at Nashville.
New York aldermen have had their
salaries doubled. Under the rule of
Tammany the size of the salary didn't
matter much.
Kansas is said to lead in the num-
Der of names signed to petitions to the
senate to turn Smoot out, yet SO far as
known not a petition has gone in ask
ing that Burton be expelled. People
occupying glass domiciles proba bly
stones.
At least. the Standard Oil company
has not been accused of grating. II
just goes out and takes the money
The only way to secure competition
in the business, says the waterbury
American, is to guarantee a separate
business organization, not to be alb
scrbed by the trust and there is proba-
bly, no way to secure this except by
having the city run it.
A woman in ST. Louis has been
awarded Judgment for $500 against an
tural injunction to turn the other
cheek is likely to become more popular
than it has hitherto been.
The passage of the free alcohol bill
illustrates the power of public opinion
when forcibly directed toward a given
object and backed up by an approach
ing congressional election.
The new mayor of Milwaukee is act
ing like one who desires to be known
as the man who made Milwaukee fam
Gus.
The Los Angeles Express has reach
ed an age when it can print "25 years
ago today column.
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WHAT THEY SAY.

Some of the politicians who think
they are in a position to know, insist
that Curtis viii not be Burton's sue
cessor in the United States senate;
that the railroad domination of the
Republican state convention has
caused q reaction in the counties that
had not yet nominated representatives
and they have been careful to select
men who viii oppose the railroad can
didate, which is Curtis. A First dis
trict Republican politician, who was in
Washington recently, told the writer
that Senator Long informed him that
there was absolutely nothing in the re-
port that he had entered into a deal to
help Curtis to the senate. The demand
for men who are not afraid" has i'm
proved the chances of Joe Bristow.
who, as fourth assistant postmaster
general, caused the grafters SO much
trouble he finally lost his job. Con-
gresham Phil Campbell, of the Third
district, who persists in sticking it into
the Standard Oil every time there is an
opportunity. win also be a favorite.-
Atchison Globe
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WHAT CONES ArTFR.

You may dance II you will,
and you VIII II you must.
Inere IS time you must kill
BUT / hope and I trust
" bile you're Jigging away
1ou can put uo the stuff
There's the fiddler to pay;
Have you money enough7
Its a tune that appeals
Very much to the ear,
And il tickles your heels
And it fills you with cheer.
gu are happy and gay,
GU have never a care
But the hddler's to pay;
Have you money to spare?
Though the fee may seem big
Eor the pleasures you get,
All the same you must dig
Up and pay 1t, you bet,
mere 5 a settlement dax
When accounts must be cast
And the fiddler's to pay,
You must pay him at last.
Chicago New
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ganization. The story that he would
become a formidable candidate for
governor Of the great Empire state has
now grown to such proportions as to
suggest the possibility that he may b
in supreme command of the party ma
ehinery in 1908. A great many hard
things have been said of the Demo-
cratic party. but its worst enemies
would hesitate to charge it with such
sublime foolishness as would make
that possible
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REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR.
From the New york Press

IFrom the New York Press.
Generally the man who sneers at the
chap who parts his hair in the middle
hasn't any.
Women think man Is a good hus-
band when he viii go with his wife to
buy her hats.
If a man pours a lot of water in his
whisky he can always make a woman
think he isn't getting so much.
Some men are so unlucky that when
they go to borrow money from a fellow
they wind up by lending him some.
It will be noticed that when young
couples mean business they don't 90
out IN automobiles; they stick to buggy
riding.
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It is claimed that a vigorous cam
paign has already been started to elect
Charley Curtis to succeed Burton as
United States senator. Out here in the
short grass country It will be pretty
hard to work up much of a. sentiment
for Curtis. who seems to be lined UP on
the wrong side of the fence. So far as
Smith county is concerned the prob
abilities point to an attempt on the
part of the old Burton fellows to line
things up for the Indian though they
can hardly claim to be debating the
affairs of the county at this time It
may not be according to the plans but
this paper hopes it is not breaking
faith in looking with favor in the
direction of Joe Bristow. Victor MUIR
dock, another aspirant, might be all
right but his hair is so red that we are
jealous of hiTn.-Gaylord Herald.
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morbid trepidation, doesn't hep
Baltimore American.
PA. what's prime mover9,'
without knocking or any plaster or say
ing things that ladies' wouldn't ike to
hear Chicago Record Herald.
Don't forget to visit the mystery show
while you are in Europe"
Let see. that's in one Of the German
mo. rs in Berne. Switzerland. re-
fer to the international sausage exhfbf-
ton Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wise--The current magazines have an
unusual amount OF illustrated fiction in
FrankIey-Thats what saw a picture
n N one OF them today Of fellow smiling
Dhia Press.
you may say what you pleaseu re-
marked the amateur farmer. but there
isn't any money in incubators. I've tried
NO money in incubators7" said the man
with the expansive front shirt Huh Z
AE row a chap that's got rich seIlin' EN-. -
chicago Tribune.
Our neighborhood is considerably stir
rcd up, said the farmer, as he helped
himself to a pipeful of the village editor, 8
pulverized cabbage.
What's the trouble2' queried the edi-
'Nothin',9 answered the granger. ..Ev-
erybody's ploughin', that's a1l''-Chicago
Mrs shopper-I wish to buy present
Tor a servant girl Can you suggest
something appropriate?
,ssalesnan- Certainly. Give her trav-
Piggmus-I' m glad it is good form not
to wear watch with a dress slit
Dismukes-Why2
"Reminiscences never have both At
the same time.-American Spectator. -
nc lnerIJ ohnny, didn't I tell you to save
q that pretzel for your little sis
- onnny-No. Ma am You told me not
rlm.-Princeton Tiger.
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The solicitude of some Republican
papers Tor the welfare of the Demo.
cratic party is becoming almost pa
thetic. AS an example take this from
the Providence Tribune and Telegram.
1T would be extremely difhcult to
take seriously the persistent runors
that prominent Democrats. outside OF
New York as well as in that state, are
really concerned lest the unspeakable
Hearst should capture the party or
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hitting the transportation companies
to disregard orders of the interstate
commerce commission. That will mean
a new bill in the near future. and It
win be as much more radical than the
bill passed by the senate than this SEN
ate bill is in advance Of the original
proposition Of the nresidant.
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The work Of the senate committee
which is to look into the Burton case
Is outlined by the Minneapolis Journal
thus: ''F'irst-Is there a senate? Sec
ond-Is there a Senator Burton? Third
Did he commit some sort OF crime /?
F'ourth-IB there supreme court?
EIfth-Did the said supreme court do
up the said Senator Burton legally /?
sixth-Is there anything in the case
which would make Burton an unit col
league for smoos, Depew and Plat?
Beventh-If so. what Is it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-30

Little defects in the railroad rate bill
as It stands are being discovered from
day to day. Tor instance. there is moth
ing in It limiting the ho1dup Of the Pull
man porter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-30

Senator Cullom says that the late
bill is only a part Of what is needed
and will not long satisfy the people.
Re sees and salutes IN La Toilette of
Wisconsin the logical and predestined
leader In the coming campaign for an
honest revaluatlon Of railroad proper
ties. La Toilette was the man who
touched the vital spot" says the Iii
nola senator.
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The tranacontinentaI railroads con-
tinue to have a strangle hold on the
Panama canal situation It is evident
that only the president can break it.