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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
OVER 200 SPEECHES.
Are Scheduled to Be Delivered on the
Austrian Suffrage Bill.

Vienna. March THE debate on
the governments general, equal and
direct suffrage proposal for Austria,
which was introduced by Premier
Gautch Won Frankenthurn February
%. will take place in the lower house
Of parliament this afternoon. It is
the most important measure for Aus
tria presented TO the house in the last
generation. The bill at first en-
countered much hostile criticism, but
1t has now won almost universal sup
port and there is every reason to sup
pose that it Will be passed.
One after another of the important
political clubs representing the va
rious nationalities of Austria have
recognized the project as imperative
for the country The landed arts
tocracy, who lose power and prestige
thereby, naturally are opposed to it.
but they viii not be able materially to
inJure the proposed law. which will be
energeUcally and lengthily discussed.
No fewer than 2O6 speakers, half Of
them in favor Of the measure and
half against It. have announced their
intention Of speaking. The debates
will be lively for each party is de-
slrous of protecting its interests and
those OF its nationality at the expense
Of other nationalities. It is genera nv
believed the discussion will end IN
mutual compromises.
The lower house will be dissolved
during the summer and the NEXT
house will be elected under the new
suffrage law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
CITYRAIL WAY EXTENSION
one May Be Made to SeabrOok If
$4,000 Is Raised.

Provided citizens of Shawnee county
living southwest OF the city put up
bonus of $4,000. the city street rail-
wav Will extend their Washburn col
lege- car line towards Seabrook dis
lance of a mile and quarter The
proposed road would run west on
Seventeenth street to Highland avenue
and south on Highland avenue to
Twenty-frst street and then west on
that street close to the vicinity of the
seabrook postofice. About one
fourth of the amount has been guar
anteed by r. w. Goodrich. of Rutland,
VT, who owns Euclid Park addition.
It is probable that daily milk train
would be put on. since a large guam
tity of the milk and cream brought to
the Continental Creamery company
from the immediate district comes
from out in this part of the county
Large suburban cars Of the Vinewood
Park type would be put on and If the
trade increases largely. regular cars
may be constructed to handle this sort
Of freight
ct is yet too early to say anything, ="
said General Manager Kelly of the city
railway "The line may be con-
structed this year. but It is all a matter
of speculation yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
B. L. wINCHELL TO SPEAK.
Railway officials TO Be Guests of Knife
and Fork Club.

Kansas City. No. March 7.-B. L.
Rock Island & Pacific railway and
chairman of the board of directors Of
the Union Depot company. has accept
ed an invitation to address the Knife
and Fork club on the night of March
%. He viii talk Of the proposed new
union passenger station for Kansas
City. It is proposed to devote the pro-
gramrne to talks upon railroad topics.
other speakers at the dinner will be
George T. Nicholson. third vice presi-
dent in charge of traffic of the Santa
Fe railway: Samuel ". Moore, general
solicitor for the Kansas City South ern,
and Gardiner Izathrop, general solicitor
for the Santa Fe system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
SOME HIGH DUTIES.
Williams Enumerates Articles That
Pay Over 100 Per Cent.

Washington, March Tn discuss
ing the tariff in the house Tuesday.
Mr.. Williams (Miss.) described some
OF his tariff revision bills and asserted
to Mr. Gardner (Mass ), who revived
the free leather controversy. that it
was a very simple thing to get tariff
legislation. All that was necessary
was first to convert the speaker. then
the committee on rules. then Serene
Payne, and finally the Republican
members of the ways and means com
mittee- This ought not to be hard for
q republican to do, said Mr.. williams
TO Mr.. Gardner One of his bills Mr.
Williams said, provided for a reduc-
ton to 100 per cent. Of all duties over
that amount He had seen the speak
er quoted as saying this must be one
Of John Sharp Williams Jokes as
there are no such duties
In answer to this he read this list
Of articles on which the duty is great
er than 100 per cent: Chalk (taiIors0
LOG per cent, OF which $4,000 worth
was imported last year. on which the
tariff was $4,000; boric acid. 122
per cent; sulphuric ether. $50 per
cent; cotton duck, over eight SQUARE
yards to the pound, 112 per cent. !:
cordage. from 108 to 300 per cent.
hrecrackers. 126 per cent: chean
spectacles, rs per cent; common win
dow glass. from 107 to 255 per cent g.
looking glasses, $50 per cent. etc. He
expressed the opinion that 25 per
cent on any article would cover the
actual difference of the labor in an
article.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Grand-IndOor Circus
The rink will be open tomorrow nighs
New music
About every man you meet in town
today declares that his cold is the worst.
There will be a meeting of the Third
ward Republican club at JOrdons hall
this evening.
Matt Weightman. the druggist has
returned to Topeka and VIII resume MS
residence here.
The office Of Election Commissioner
c. II. Titus viii be kept open until nine
clock until March IA.
Ladies admitted free to class dance
at Steinberg's dancing academy tomor-
row night. Gentlemen % cents.
1t took two sections of No. . on the
Santa Fe yesterday to handle the
traffic which was westward bound.
Fl. G.. Larimer, chairman of the city
central committee, made talk to the
Sixth ward Republican club last night.
The Cumberland Boys band win have
a spelling match and a supper at Chiles'
hail tonight, at Twelfth and Washington
streets.
Chief Of Police Goodwin asks for
fair play If there is anything else
that he wants, all that he has to do is
to ask for it.
IT, IT, Kelly is in Wichita today at
tending an Eighth district convention.
and the state funds are safe for one
day at least
The crossings Of the city streets were
cleared Of snow yesterday within an
hour after it fell. but the temperature
did the work.
Two men who have been connned IN
the city jail for some time were released
yesterday on the promise that they would
Join the regular army
The Fourth ward Colored Republican
club will meet at 429 Kansas avenue
this evening when they viii be address
ed by various candidates.
The Washburn academy has fixed up
a baseball schedule for this season in
Guiding games with the Topeka, Holton
and Lawrence high schools.
For the reason that there was car
off the track the Rock Island was com
PEELED to use the Union Pacific tracks
entering this city yesterday
The smoker which was to have been
held at the club rooms of the Com
mercial club Friday of this week has
been postponed for week on account
of the convention.
Captain P. H. Coney. commander Of
the C. A r.. goes to Wichita tonight 70
hold union camp fires tomorrow after
noon and night: he also goes to Baxter
Springs the 18th Of this month.
B. f. Collins. who has been at work
for the Santa Fe as an engineer since
1873 and who retired some time ago
on account Of failing eyesight, has
been given a position as gate tender
There are about the usual number
of contests going on in the city in
which YOU can get a piano or some
thing else for just answering the ad-
verusement. Did you ever get some
thing for nothing?
Love note fromthe Washburn Review:
shorty Hanaway. a conductor on the
Washburn line. is about as well posted
as any Of the Washburn students. He
can name, like a person can their A
B Cs, the different cases" that are
going on IN the college. He says that
it is getting awful.
Tonight will decide who is the cham
pion chess player of the state Every
body is invited to see the games which
are to be played al the hall of the
Knights and Ladies of Security without
admission charge. The contestants are
Major A. NJ. Harvey of Topeka and n.
d. Thompson of Junction City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
GLAD HAMILTON CAME.
Attorney for Trustees of n. Y. Life
viii Now Press Suit.

Buffalo, N. Y, March John G.
Milburn, attorney for the trustees Of
the New York Life Insurance com
pany, to bring suits against the Nc
Call estate and Andrew Hamilton for
the return of the money alleged to
have been fraudulently taken from the
company, today expressed surprise and
delight at the return of Hamilton to
New York. He said:
Andrew Hamilton was sued along
with the Mccall estate and the matter
will be. pressed Immediately in the
courts for return of the money.
shall return to New York city tonight
and there will be no delay in prescott
ing the suit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Pittsburgers Invited by Young Women
to Put Something Into Hosiery

Pittsburg, Pa. March Won't you
please put something in my stockiug2'
This Startling request hurled at a busi-
ness man by neat and pretty young wo-
man made him gasp. He was about to
express a willingness to do anything IN
reason. when he saw that the young Wo-
man was very much in earnest and not
a little embarrassed
In her hand she held a beautiful stock
ing, perhaps about the size she wore her
self Instead Of q garter at the top there
was q beautiful draw string woven IN and
out. The business man was shown how
he could neatly undo the draw string and
put something into the stockings coins
for instance-aud he did.
The young woman was but one OF a few
dozen from the Methodist Protestant
church on Fifth avenue. They conceived
the novel idea of collecting IN this way to
pay of a church debt Of $500. and are
meeting with great success though some
of the older members look on the move
with horror The young women are so
pleased with the success Of their scheme
that they announce that they win give
sock sociar' to round UP the last Of the
Tdhf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Pittsburg. Pa, March Chairman
Francis L. Robbins. of the Pittsburg
Coal company. who has represented
the bituminOus coal operators at all
wage scale conferences. has called a
meeting in this city next Friday Of
the operators of the Pittsburg district
TO decide what action they will take
at the general convention to be held at
Indianapolis The result of the Pitts
burg meeting, it is said, viii prac-
ically determine the stand to be taken
by the operators of the bituminous
fields
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
Train Rolls Down a Bank.

Binghamton, n. Y, March T.-West-
bound Erie train No. carrying a
number Of emigrants bound for the
west, was derailed here today and the
engine, mail. baggage and express cars
plunged over an embankment to the
street. None of the passengers was
hurt. The wreck caught fire, but the
flames were quickly extingdished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Belgrade Servia. March THE
Stopanovich cabinet has rendered Its
resignation to the king. giving as the
reason for 50 doing that the ministers
can not accept Austria's proposals for
the conclusion OF a political-commer-
cial agreement with Servia-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
WOMEN FIGHT DUEL.
A Man Standing Near was Shot and
Killed.

NiddIesboro. KY, March Tn a pis-
toll duel yesterday between Mrs. Alice
Moore and Mrs. Lucy Tucker, as the
result of a long time quarrel. Frank
Madden WIS killed by a bullet from
the revolver of Mrs. Tucker. The wo-
men met in front of a saloon and after
exchanging a few words both drew
weapons. Mrs. Tucker was the first to
open fire. At the third shot Mrs. Moore
turned and ran down the street un-
harmed, though her clothing was twice
pierced. It was this last shot that
struck Madden. The csuEe Of the trou-
bic is said to have been Q. love AFFAIR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
Inferestina Rnt Intrne.

London, March Interesting, but
untrue. is the British foreign Offices
comment on story published in Paris
to the effect that a formal political al
lance between Great Britain and Spain
will promptly follow King Alfonso s
marriage to Princess Ena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
stevenson's illustrator Dead.

London, March William Henry
Boucher. the illustrator of Robert
Louis Etcv enson's novels, died today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

At the Theaters Tonight
Novelty-The Four Bragdons.
Crawford Vaudeville.
-BurlesQue-
Grand-IndOOr Circus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

MITCH Il tUIIItIetI o
March 13-Bonner Springs.
March 14--Argsntine.
March 15aChsisea park
March 16.-Rosedale.
Mr. Scott will speak March II in the
Armourdale district In Kansas City,
Kan. and will spend the next week
speaking in the city.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
VAST STORE OF WEALTH.
Mother Earth Has Supplied the
Worlds Greatest Fortunes.

Belts vast wealth came from
mines-diamonds, gold and copper
like the immense fortune of Senator
William A. Clark, of Montana; like
the $25, 100000 or more accumula-
ted by Cecil Rhodes.
The earth was also the source of
the wealth of both John D. Rookie
Teller and his brother William. The
same thing Is true of Carnegie's
great store of wealth 1t was really
dug from iron mines--iron and coal.
Krupp piled up the largest estate
In Germany in like manner. He
made his money by manufacturing
he product of iron mines.
The earth is a magnificent store
house of wealth. 1t has proved more
fruitful of immense fortunes than
the vast transportation business
which made the fortunes of the Van
ierbilts and the Goulds, Hill, Harri-
man and the rest of the railroad
kings. 1t has beaten the mere owner
ship and the use of the surface of
the ground, Astor fashion, says the
OiSfSiohh i%CduCl' hCitupOn Lut
Manufacturers Record adds.
Yes, and the great centre of the
earth's storehouse is the South.
Think of its coal area. nearly three
times as great as the combined coal
fields of Great Britain, Germany and
Pennsylvania; of its iron ore, far
surprising in quantity that which
made the fortunes of Carnegie and
Krupp; of its oil, promising to ex-
ceed in yield all that went to make
the fortunes of the Rockefellers; of
It's sulphur. which dominates the
worlds sulphur trade; of its phos.
phate, which holds the same unique
position in the worlds fertilizer in
dustry; of its vast stores of cement
making materials, the industry which
promises to rival iron and steel; of
its copper and other higher forms of
minerals. and then let your imagin.
alton attempt to forecast the vastness
OF the wealth which this mineral
storehouse of the world is to turn
loose in the South.
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Iniia's Cotton Tree.

London Commercial Intelligence
recently printed letter from j. X.
Spence at Wallas Cotton Plantation,
Deese. who claims to have discoy-
cred variety of cotton tree, indigen.
Gus to India. capable of revolutioniz-
ing the cotton industry of that coun.
try. He says the tree grows in vari-
GUS parts of Bombay and Madras
Presidencies. which produces cotton
Infinitely superior both in classifica.
ton and staple to American cotton
and in classification alone cannot be
equaled by Egypt. 1t is an astonish-
ing fact that the value of the trees
product has not up to this time been
discovered by any one In the cotton
trade, Notwithstanding the fact that
the tree has been known to exist
since the time of the mutiny and
probably for hundreds of years prev
iously. The only uses the cotton 1t
produces has been put to are the
manufacture of wicks for lamps in
Hindu temples and the stufing of
beds and pillows. After careful ex-
animation of the cotton, Mr.. Spence
unhesitatingly expressed the opinion
that it would probably revolutionize
the cotton industry of India and
largely reduce the European demand
for American cotton.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

A man thinks he Is mighty good to
his wife to let her think he is.
Half the fun of being rich seems to
be trying to get richer with it.
If it wasn't on her head you would
think woman's hat was flying ma
chine.
A man has to holler pretty loud to
get any one to take stock in his vir-
tues.
A millionaire never feels that he
dence.
When a man talks about accept
ing" job it is sign the salary is
small.
We support our children so that
they can raise their children for us
to support.
There is hardly any investment
that is more of risk than marrying
for money.
The most dangerous thing about
engagements is that they usually lead
to marriages.
It's mighty unfortunate for most
people that they look so much like
themselves.
The reason women hate mathe-
mathics so much Is because they have
to do with ages.
Maybe IL people loved their uhil-
dren less they would be able to sup
port themselves.
No matter how much woman dis
approves swearing she is grateful her
husband is SO manly.
The only men who don't waste a
good deal of their money are those
who haven't it to waste.
Keeping up appearances keeps
more men down in their finances
than any other one thing in the
world.
The devil gets lot of help in his
work from people who insist on driv-
ing you desperate with their good
advice.
There is hardly anything that can
shock a sentimental girl more than
to find the way poet can like steak
and fried potatoes.
II men who are engaged want to
be successful husbands they will do
well to save up some of their love-
making for use after Marriage
From Reflections of Bachelor" in
the New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
IN THE rYpnooN.
What the Great Wind Did on the
Harbor OF Hongkong.

Shortly before dawn the Sado
Maru was hove to and forged into
the head sea. About this time the
glass began to rise, the worst was
past. At dawn huge seas surged
past the side, the trough of the waves
was white with foam and the crests
snatched up by the wind caused a
dense spume-formed mist over the
whole waters.
The sea was strewn with wreck
age; everywhere spars, sails, timber
and wave-swept derelicts evidenced
the havoc among the junks.
About 10 a. m. on Tuesday great
excitement was caused by a man
being sighted about mile away,
clinging to some wreckage. The ship
altered course and an attempt was
made to reach the mast and shred
of sail to which he clung.
The first effort failed, the second
was better; first a buoy then a bow
line reached him and he was hauled
on board.
He was livid from exhaustion and
exposure and unable to stand-the
sole survivor of a crew of twenty.
This was only the beginning. A
few miles further a tangle of spars
supported six, including two women:
then a junk with only the poop out
of water yielded two men and a
child. Still further another junk in
similar plight gave two more. And
so on, from every form of raft, till
total of sixty-six was reached, in
cluding one Englishman, a pilot
A man who was on board II. M. S.
lamar writes:
THE whole time there was an
endless procession of junks and SAM
pans, mostly dismasted, tearing past
the ship, some abandoned and others
with several wretches still on board,
. all very terrified, doing joss-pidgin to
their gods, and throwing joss papers
into the water. The majority of
them were rudderless as well as
mastless and consequently complete-
ly at the mercy of the elements. 1t
was pitiable to see them passing so
close and yet to be powerless to
rescue them. They shouted and
screamed at every steam launch that
came within sight to take them off,
but the launches had enough to do
to look after themselves. A party
of about six men in a loaded coal
lighter was rescued by a launch just
abreast the ship. They appeared
quite cool and stepped on board the
launch and then returned to the
lighter and fetched the boxes con-
tanning al their worldly goods and
then went off, leaving a poor little
chow dog in the lighter to await the
end.-South China Morning Post.
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Told of Professor Lounsburx.

The recent unofficial opinion of the
United States Supreme Court in the
matter of simplified spelling lends
especial point to the following anec-
1ote of Professor Lounsbury, the
noted grammarian, of Yale, who, as
Is we'll known, has democratic and
liberal views on the subject of the
English language. Professor Louns-
bury, according to Harper's Weekly.
opposes those who would substitute
Tor simple terms pedantic ones
those who would claim, for instance,
chat the phrase Tomorrow is Sun
lay" is incorrect, and would write
Instead: Tomorrow will be Sun
day."
Professor Lounsbury discussing
the question of simple English, said
ut Yale one afternoon:
There was little boy who began
to keep diary. His first entry was
Got up this morning at o'clock
He showed the entry 60 his mother,
and she. horror-stricken, said:
Have you never been to school?
Got up. indeed! Such an expression!
Does the sun get up? No. 1t rises"
"And she scratched out Got up at
T. and wrote Rose at 4 in it's place.
THAT night the boy, before retir-
ing, ended the entry for the day with
the sentence, Set at o'clock
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BY Rail to Siberia.

With the Incorporation in New
Jersey of the Trans-Alaskan Siberian
Railway Company, with an author.
lied capital of s6,000.O0O, the first
step toward the joining of the old
and new worlds is taken, and the
world In general will await with
some interest the further progress of
the scheme of the French, Russian
and American syndicates which hope
to carry the plans to successful con.
clusion. The new Incorporation is
the result of contract entered into
by special commission appointed by
the Gear OF Russia and Loicq De Lo-,
bel In 1906. The main line is to
start from Kansk station on the
Trans-Siberian Railway and to run
easterly to the boundary of Amur
province; thence to a point between
Yakoutsk and Okatsk, thence to
Bering Strait with various branches
The main road will be about 1850
miles long and the branch road
1850 miles. The Alaska terminal
will be Cape Prince of Wales, Sew
ard Peninsula. Connection is to be
made by tunnel under Behring
Strait. or course the cost of the con-
struction will be enomous, running
well into nine figures, and this
$6,000,000 is a merely nominal cap
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Advertiser
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Same True of Smelling.

When / was in England. before
the entente cordiale." l discussed
the metric system with an English
man. The English system of weights
and measures, he admitted. was COM
plex, but he said 1t was precisely be-
cause of its innumerable difficulties
that 1t constituted marvellous in
strument for making supple the
young brains which filled the English
schools.--M. Grimm, In LIE Journal
of Paris.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
In Honor of the Clc.h.

Clergymen all over the country
are greatly relieved at the reported
decision OF the Oxfordshire Educa-
tion Committee to dismiss the head
mistress of hampton Aston School
for taking hold OF the vicar and shak-
ing him. II the practice had been
allowed to proceed unchecked, the
prestige OF the church might have
been seriously impaired. Punch.
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A Wise Son.

"A dislike" said the gentle philos-
opher, should not lead us to any
active demonstration. We should
merely seek to avoid it's object"
maybe my boy Josh has more
sense than gave him credit for" re-
Joined Farmer Corntossel. That's
exactly the way he feels about work
of all kinds. Washington Star.