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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12
Concluded FROM Last Saturday,

It had been a tremendous day for
Giddings, a tremendous day. Thirty
two specials on the dispatchers, and
Giddings copying for the chief. He sat
down after Duffy. filed with a riotous
importance because It was now in eff
feet all up to Giddings personally-at
least until Barnes Tracy should pres
entity kick him out of the seat of hon
or for the night trick Mr.. Giddings
sat down and waited for the signature
of the orders.
Very soon Pat Francis dropped off
De Molay Four, slowing at EIcho, ran
straight to the operator for his order,
signed It. and at once Order 70 was
throbbing back to young Giddings at
Medicine Bend. It was precisely 1854
p. m. when Giddings gave back the
complete. and at 1855 Elcho reported
Special 326 out" all just like clock
work. What a head Martin Duffy has.
thought young Giddings, and, behold,
all the complicated everlasting head
work of the trick and the day and of
the West End and its honor was now
up to the signature of third eighty at
Rat River. Just third eighty's sigma
ture for the Rock Point meeting. and
the biggest job ever tackled by a single
track road in America, Giddings
thought, was done. and well done.
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The relief arrangements and Mon
soon's headlight were the fun Of 1t,
but there was more Martin Duffy lay
eleven weeks with brain fever before
they could say moon again to him Bob
had skipped into the mountains in the
very hour that he had disgraced him
self. He has never shown up at Medi-
cine since. but Martin is still chief. and
they think more of him on the Noun
tain district than ever
Bucks got the whole thing when De
Molay Four reached Rat River that
night. Bucks and Callahan and Moore
and Oyster and Pat Francis got 1t and
smiled grimly. Nobody else on Special
326 even dreamed Of leaving a bone
that Sunday night in the Cinnamon
cut. All the rest of the evening Bucks
smiled just the same at the Knights
and the Knightesses, and they thought
him, for a bachelor, wonderfully en-
tertaining.
A month later when the old boys,
more or less ragged, came struggling
back from Frisco. Bucks crowd stayed
over a train, and he told his Penn
sylvania cronies what they had slipped
through in that delay at Rock Point
Just luck laughed one Of the
eastern superintendents, who wore on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY

ured the question out for himself I'm
going to do it. Do you know what
quarter the moon is in tonight?"
II don't keep any track of the
MOON
"Of course not. There isn't one wo-
man in ter thousand who knows there
is such a thing in the heavens. Some
day when I get time I will tell you
what the moon is. Sufficient for the
present to say that at 9 o'clock this
evening the moon viii be in the right
quarter for my experiment"
Mrs. Phillips wanted us to come
over to her house tonight" sighed Mrs.
BOwser.
Then she'll have to take it out in
wanting. I wouldn't put off this ex-
pertinent for a thousand dollars. Be-
fore midnight tonight the world will
know to an hour how long it takes GU
cumber seeds to generate. I have fig
ured on exactly eighteen days and five
hours. It may be an hour or two out
in my calculations, but 1 shall cut it
very close"
Mrs. Bowser had nothing further 10
say on the subject to him. but went
down to the kitchen and informed the
cook that Mr.. BOwser would make an
experiment with cucumber seeds, and
that there was no danger of an ex-
plosion.
IF there is, ma am replied the cook,
don't keep it from me. You know I'm
the sole support of an old father. If
I should be histed about twenty feet
and come down on my head there might
be fatal consequences
She was reassured. and Mr.. Bowser
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BowsER EXPERIMENTS.
He Lays His Ear to the Ground and
Hears Noises.

Mr.. Bowser had carried an impor-
tant air all through dinner sort Of
demeanor IS If he had discovered the
north POLE and intended to make the
most of it. Mrs. Bowser couldn't
fathom it, but she knew that if left
alone long enough he would tell her
whether he had improved on a patent
fire escape or discovered that the but
ter from a bob-tailed COW was lacking
in richness. After leaving the dinner
table he took a walk through the
kitchen to the back yard. where he
had begun gardening some days pre-
vious- When he finally re-entered the
house, he said:
Mrs. Bowser. do you know what
ails the farmer of today2H
He is getting rich too fast, accord
ing to the papers," she replied.
"On the contrary. he IS just where
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NOURISH

the body, don't dose it
with medicine. SCOTS
Emulsion is the best
nourishment in existence.
It is more than a food;
you may doubt it, but it
digests perfectly easy and
at the same time gets the
digestive functions in a
condition so that ordinary
food can be easily de
gested. Try it if you are
run down and your food
doesn't nourish you.
SCOTT < BOVINE, 4es Pearl Street. Ns~ York
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walked around the house until ten
o'clock, and then took a piece of carpet
and spread it beside his cucumber bed
and stretched out on it with his ear -
the ground. Mrs BoWser wanted an ex-
PLANTATION. and he gave it by saying:
I want you to go into the house and
keep as quiet as you can. Take the
blamed old yaller cat in with you I
want to listen to the seeds generating
VIII they terminate after they gen
erate?" she asked. as she prepared to
obey.
He sat up and glared at her and
worked up red color in his face, and
she picked up the cat ana tip-toed in.
When the door had closed after her Mr.
Bowser lay down again. He couldn- I
see to write in his note book, but he
mentally recorded things as follows:
L have my ear to the ground listen
ing for sounds If I am right in my
figuring the cucumber seeds ought to
burst open before midnight.
Hear the sounds Of cats
Hear a cricket singing.
Hear Mrs. Bowser singing.
Hear a fishworm boring his way
along the ground.
Hear
Mr.. Bowser scrambled up. The al
ley gate was open. and some belatec
boy passing along had thrown an OLE
peach can at him. He shook his fist a.
the speeding boy and made threats an6
lay down to resume:
Il hear tick, tick. tick"
"Durn those catst''
Il am quite certain that the seed:
are now popping OPEN
That crash can not be seeds gen
Grating
It wasn't 1t may have been {
tramp looking for lodgings in some
shed. who passed up the alley ant
heaved an old potato at the recumbeni
figure The missile struck the fenc,
close by, and Mr.. Bowser sat up and
thirsted for gore It was hve minute!
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L
TO THE GROUND.
half an hour of my original calcula-
tons.
IF 1 can show the farmers of Amer
lea that cucumber vines may be looked
for above the ground in eighteen days
and five hours after the seeds have
been planted"
49, by thunder, what sort Of a
noise is thati''
Samuel Bowser, am here!"
It took Mr.. Bowser about three sec
onds to get upon his feet. He looked
toward the alley for a boy with a to-
mato can, but he saw none.
81 am here, Samuel, and 1 want you
in the housed"
He turned and saw a female form in
the kitchen door. He didn't need half
an hour to identity it. It was female
form he had been seeing at intervals
for the last thirty years.
.'You-you herei' he finally STAN
mered.
has arrived. 1t seems I have come just
in time to prevent you making a fool Of
yourself The idea of your being
stretched out there on your stomach
with your nose in the dirt Were you
roofing for potatoes? ?"
7 didn't invite you to come down." he
sulkily replied
No, Samuel, you didn't I have
little way Of inviting myself. You win
now come into the house and leave
those cucumber seeds to the mercy II
the cold world. and you may then put
both ears to the carpet on the floor and
hear what have to say to you. Come
right along. Samuel You never can get
away from me until you grow wings"
Mr.. Bowser cast one long, lingering
look at his cucumber bed, listened for a
moment to see if he could hear anv
more ticks. and then humbly followed
the woman of destiny into the house to
take his medicine--(C Copyright, 1906. by
George Parcells.)
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his watch chain an enormous Greek
cross with "Our Trust Is In God" en-
graved on it. Just luck" he laughed,
wasn't it?"
Maybe, murmured Bucks, looking
through the Wickiup window at the Te-
ton peaks. THAT is, you might call
it that back on the Penn. Out here I
guess they'd call It. Just Cod,
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before he had his ear to the GROUND
again and was saying:
q am sure I have struck 1t.
There are sounds like miniature ex'
plOsions in the cucumber hills.
I am certain that I shall be within
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
~
PassI-@ 81 tae GREAT Editor.


The immensely l1rga capital now re
quired for the conduct Of daily news
paper in great city has had i'm
portlnt coase ireuces. It has made
the newspaper mere af an institution,
less of a perpu-l organ. Men no
longer designate Journals by the own
er's or EDITORS name. If used to be
Bryant's paper or Greeley's paper or
Raymond's or Bemett's. Now it is
simply Times. Eeruld. Tribune and so
ON. No single personality can stamp
itself upon the whole organism. It is
toe vast It sa ereat piece of proper
ty. to be administered with skill 1t is
a carefully planned organization which
best produces the effect when the per
son9litcs of those who work for it are
swallowed up. The individual withers.
hut the newspaper is more and more.
journalism becomes impersonal. There
are no more 'graat editors,' but there
is Il finer esprit dc corps, better 'team
play" am institution more and more
firmly established and able to justify
itself.-Rollo Ogden i'm Atlantic.
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05

and leave them behind.
our lives must be Il continual prog
ress or else they will lie Il continual
ratrocossion. | once read of a woman
who had strange dream. In her
dream she seemed to be at the bottom
of q we'll All was complete darkness
about her. But suddenly she looked
i'm. There. through the mouth OF the
we'll overhead. she saw a bright star
Glowing. It seemed to say to her:
"Come. let me lift you. Rise, rise
RISE And. strange to say, rs sne
looked mt the overhanging star she be-
gan to rise. She felt herself going up
and up. But as she was rising she
looked down. and Immediately she rel
TO the bottom of the well. Bruised
and sore she was. Then she looked
up again. Again that star began 10
lift her up. Higher and higher she
went. but again she looked down ana
again she fell to the bottom of the
well. "Ah," she cried, Il know now
what I must do must never look
down, but always look up. Then as
keep my eyes upon that star 1t VIII
lift me up and up until l stand upon
the firm ground overhead" Thus she
did; thus she rose. Beautiful allegory
that 1t is the allegory Of life. Lie
should have its stars which lift and
not its introspections and backward
looks which drag us down. A man
should not be like gopher. with a
little hole, now and then rushing out
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

An Act nropOsfng an amendment u Secllon
Of Article " 0ftbe Constitution OF lnls SlAle
nv striking out of said section all theIeoi'
which REQUIRES the payment OF money as Il
.0tAlfflcaii IN to Register. - Z,
Ire il enacted by The senate ana House ol
Representatives of the STATE Vl bsId ~ "IS' , ~
General Assembly met tWo-, @ h,Iu9 VI ,,, an w
members elected to each House agreeing
stc,l.,p /. That Section Of Article v OF
the CONSTITUTION of ms State, oe , anu ~ 'nS ~
same is aerebv amen ed by sirihIhs vuu VI
said section l. he following WOtus'
,,a,d eoch voter shall, at the time OF MS re-
gistratlon, pav a registration lee OF one uol-
lar, for the use Of the county, "HNiS '"NH 10
istration is paid. . srg, dav, of
Passed at Dover the twenty-hrst uay Oh
March A. D. l'O' ISAAC T PARKER,
President of the Senate.
VIM. ID. DENNEE,
Speaker OF House
Approved this the thirtieih day Of March
A. D. l9O5' PRESTON LEA,
Governor
/. Joseph L. Cahall, Secretary OF the STATE
Of Delaware do hereby certify that the ABOVE,
"a toTssotng is a true ard correct copy OF
Senate Bill No. IS, entitled AN Act PIoP'I,r>
ing an amendment 10 Sectlou % .AL.iG,S 49,, "
of ihe Constitution of this state ny strlklus
ont at said Section all thereof Wnlcn requires
the nav ment of money as quallhcatiOu "
Register" as the same appears on tut eul VI
led hin fled in ne office OF tne secretary %
ss,ate and anproved by the Governor, March
thirtieth A. ID. 1905, whlch sara OIL PIOPuss
ing such amendment to the Cohs' ltutlOn y, "
this state is published IN acsniualiS7 ac.,i ~
the requirements of the Constitution OF lhe
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, / have hereqneQ s,l 20
SET nv hand aud Otficlai seal, az
hover, this twentv-dfh day of
Julv. in the year of our Lord one
rsEAr1 Thousand Diue hundred ana six
JOS. l.. CAHALL,
Secretary OF state.
Tulv 17th-3 mos
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
Our Birthright.

There are a thousand evidences in
tbe very formation of our bodies and
brains that we were planned and
eouipped in every detail of our marvel
ons structure to achieve great things,
TO accomplish something worth while,
and it is a disgrace not to live up 10
our birthright.-Success Magazine.
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
.ENNSYLVANIA
3 RAILROAD.
Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington R. R.
SCHEDULE EFFECT SEPT. 2, 1905

Trains leave Milford Tor Harrington, Whining
ton. Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore WASH
iugton and stations on tle Del ware DIVISION '.t5
and 81 a m. and > 80 p m week days SuhueSF
785 "a. no. % p. m. .,.s.....-
For Georgetown, Lewes Rehoool h and luter
mediate stations, 10 % q. M ana W y in' W'eb
davs Sundays 10 - q. m, d ~ p- M ..-,-
- 1itv, 1855 a. M, 6O7 p. IL, Weea-days
Sundays, $50 D. ~. ...,.
For Ocean City, l0-55 a. m, " p' m.' week
davs, ,. t,t.
Time tables and full information can De oo
tanned at the Ticket Office al he station
~. w, ATTERBURY, J. r. WOOD
GeHeral Manager IdSSf Ifay'c Ao""ge'
GEO. W BOYD,
Geu.rgl Passenger AgdH
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
7. w. TRUTHS.

We have this received big stock fall goods consisting of
Dress Goods the new Plaid Teeas for 2 cents Outing Flannel
Blanket both for ladies and children; also line OF child
dresses
The blankets we have Just received from New York and the
LARGEST and cheapest handled they start at TO cts and
90 70 $500 crackeriack blanket for S. blanket
hard 70 heat for that price regular IS $500 blanket Re
member we have all sizes and all prices
When you get ready for your winter underwear remember this
the closest margin will save yout tlom 40 %,
Some specials Linen the finest line to make your Sc
ectons, with napkins to match
large line of shrings and Muslins
A large line of Flannelee Wrappers
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
How's
Your
Liver?

It will pay You to take good care Of
your liver, because, if you DO, your
liver will take good care Of you.
Sick liver puts you all out Of sorts,
makes you pale, dizzy, sick at the
stomach, gives you stomach ache,
headache, malaria, etc. Well liver
keeps you well, by purifying your
blood and digesting your food.
There is only one safe, certain ald
reliable liver medicine, and that is
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05

July 27th-3 mos.
Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05
Th0dfOrd' S
BIaCk-Draught

For over 90 years this wonderful
vegetable remedy has been the standby
in thousands Of homes, and is today
the favorite liver medianein the world.
It acts gently on the liver and kid
neys, and does not irritate the bowels.
It cures constipation, relieves con-
gestion, and purfes the system from
an overflow Of bile, thereby keeping
the body in perfect health.
Price 25c at all druggists and
dealers.
Test Il.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-16

purpose of constructing and equipping
the Davis-TuFner Falls line as a regular
standard gauge railroad. The incor-
porators are John Nancy, R. E. Brow
nell, A. T. Shead and Guy V. Mcclure.
all Of Oklahoma City. It is learned that
the construction company is composed
Of ten men who are believed to be large
" interested in the Twin Territories
and are to build and equip short lines
Of road and to spend a large sum of
money in the development Of Turner
Falls as a health resort
1t IS reported here that the Davis
Turner Falls line will be commenced
next Thursday. and completed in so
days, a distance of nearly six miles
Four suspension bridges viii be con-
structed across deep canyons. in the Ar
buckle mountains, and The line win be
built with a view of making it a scenic
route. Two large artificial lakes will be
made by concrete dams across the main
stream, Honey creek, about half mile
below the falls. An so room hotel will
be built at the terminus
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CONSIDERING REDUCTIONS.
Western Roads Not Ready to Act on
Rates to Missouri River.

Chicago. March 16.-Western roads are
still undecided in regard to the proposition
of the Milwaukee and St. Paul for radical
reductions in through rates from the At
lantic seaboard to the Missouri river. The
reason advanced recently by the repre-
sentafives of Kansas City jobbers for
making the reduction was so startling
that the roads took further time to con-
slider It. 1t was in effect that because
they had been enjoying the advantage
over Chicago surreptitiously and Illegally
in the past. therefore they are entitled to
enjoy it openly and publicly for all time
to come.
The Kansas City men did not stop here.
however. They did say that while they
want reductions from the Atlantic sea
board, they want none from Chicago. as
that would deprive them of the advantage
over Chicago which they assert they
should enjoy.
The outcome of the decision was that
the whole question was referred to COM
mittee with instructions to check up the
proposed rates and report on their effect
on the revenues Of the roads. This will
require several weeks. When the report IS
prepared it win be presented to future
meeting of executive officers for further
discussion
Should the reductions asked for by Kan
sas City be made without affording SINH
lar relief to Chicago it is probable that
the roads will have to stand an dnvestiga-
ton before the interstate commerce com
mission, as Chicago jobbers say they will
not submit to discrimination.
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SANTA FE-FRIsCo DEPOT.
Joint Terminals for Both Systems to
Be Built at Houston.

Houston, Tex. March 16.-The pur-
chase Of the twelve blocks Of ground
in the Third ward for a union passenger
depot site and freight terminals has de-
veloped into a joint proposition between
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe COM
pany and the Yeakum railways. COM
posed Of the Trinity and Brazos Valley
road, the st. Louis, Brownsville and
Mexico road and the Houston Belt and
Terminal Railway company.
The fact that this purchase is a joint
deal between these two railway systems
was made known by the filing of trans
ferS from sam Lazarus. president of the
Belt and TerninaI company, 10 ". G.
Nixon, vice president and general man
ager of the Santa Fe lines in Texas.
The transfers are made to Mr.. Nixon as
trustee, but it is known that the prop
erty is Cor the Santa Fe.
The conveyanees already made cover
a portion Of the district that fronts on
Texas avenue, upon which it is the in
tention of the railway companies in
volved to erect a modern union passen-
ger station for the use of the Santa Fe
and other passenger trains from the
Yoa KUN roads. It is the intention also
to have the international and Great
Northern Railway company and the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
company to run their passenger trains
into the proposed passenger depot.
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Now Proposed to Run 1t From
Hutchinson to Wichita.
WORKING ON ROAD.
Grading Being Done in North
western Part Of State.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

It is reported that the plans for the
new north and south road, the Gulf,
Hutchinson & Northwestern. are to be
changed so that the line win run
through Wichita A new survey for
the road viii be made from Hutchin-
son so as TO take in wichita. This
survey viii be started soon and it is
expected that a large amount of con
struction work will be done on the
new line this summer.
The Gulf. Hutchinson & North
western road was organized some time
ago and officers elected. The head
quarters Of the new road are at
Hutchinson. The main line of the
projected route was to run from Ar
kansas City through wellington. Con
way Springs, Cheney, Hutchinson.
Hudson or Seward, stockton. La
Crosse. Hays City. Plainville. JENNINGS
Oberlin and Atwood to BenkIenan
Neb.
Work on this road is now i'm prog
Tess between the lines of the Union
Pacific railroad and the Atchfson TO-
peka & Santa Fe in the northwest
eIn part Of the state. The era dino ie
being done. and fl is announced that
IS soon as the weather permits work
VIII be pushed at different points aIone
the route of the proposed line.
large part of the funds for the
building of the road are to be raised
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FOR THE EDGEwATER LINE.
Land for Right OF Way to Be Con-
demned at Once.

Kansas City Kan, March 16-Commis-
sioners were appointed yesterday by
Judge AIcCabe Moore of the district
court in Kansas City, Kan, to condemn
land for the Edgewater Connecting Rail
way company, which recently filed a
charter in Topeka. The commissioners
are B. L. Stfnes5ohn CaslSey and James
o Brien.
The new hne-=eer- which the property
will be condemned extends from where
the Missouri Pacific main line enters that
city at the north city limits and runs
along the Missouri river front to the
state line, crossing the kaw river over a
new bridge to be built just below the Chi
cago Great Western bridge. It connects
with the Edgewater Terminal company at
the state line
The right of way to be condemned is 100
feet wide. It runs squarely through the
pumping station and storage house be
ing built by the Kansas City Oil and Gas
company and which is a part Of it's new
oil refinery It also takes in the property
of the Fleming Oil Refinery company and
the site for a third refinery in the same
district.
The new line viii give the Missouri Pa
ciic north lines and the Chicago Great
Western railroad a new entrance Tor
freight into Kansas City. The tracks will
run along the Missouri river front from
the mouth of the kaw river to Broadway.