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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
AUTO SNOW A SUCCESS.
sale Of Lower Priced vehicles Largest
at the Gotham Exhibit.

New York, Dec. 10-With an at
tendance of approximately $4,000 Wis
itors during the week, the seventh an
nual motor vehicle exposition of the
Automobile Club Of America came to
a close in the Grand Central Palace
Saturday night Up to the very end
the aisles were thronged with crowds
Of enthusiastic spectators and the ex-
hibitors were still busy with order
books
A canvass of the Grand Central Pal
ace indicated that three-fourths of the
exhibitors had taken orders at retail
for beyond their expectations, while
the other fourth blamed too early
show and bad location for poor bust
ness OF eighty-sfx exhibitors of
automobiles the canvass indicated an
average of five sales each at retail
during the week, and. figuring on an
average cost of the cars bought of
$4,000, the aggregate retail sale was
100000 This is probably conserva-
tive estimate.
The largest sales were of moderate or
low cost American machines. the run
about type predonninating. OF more ex-
tensive machines including foreign
models, the sales were lighter than at
some previous shows. This was taken
as an indication that persons who are
likely to put most money into cars are
waiting for the later show in Madison
Square Garden before placing their or
ders.
The largest sales reported were OF
Ford, Rambler, Aerocar, Maxwell and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
ROOSEVELT GETS 1T.
The President Is Awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize

Christiania, Norway. Dec. 10--The
Norwegian parliament has conferred the
Nobel peace prize upon President Roose-
welt.
The Nobel peace. prize is awarded to
President Roosevelt in recognition of
his services in ending the Russo-Japa-
nese war. Candidates for this distinc-
ton must be proposed by legislative
bodies, peace organizations or universe
ties. 1t is understood that the presi-
den's sponsors were Prof. H P. Judson,
acting president of Chicago university;
Prof. Baldwin of Yale; Prof. Harberger
of the University of Munich and the fac
ulty Of Georgetown university, Wash
fngton.
The peace prize went last year to
Baroness Won Suttner of Vienna and in
previous years to w. H. Creemer. NJ. p.
of England; Prof De Martens of Rus
STA, and Henri Dunant. founder of the
Red Cross.
The Nobel peace prize is part of a be-
quest left by DR.. Alfred Bernhard No
bel. the Swedish scientist who died in
1896 BY his viii a large portion of his
fortune was devoted to five annual
prizes. each valued at about $4,000
portant discoveries in physics, -chemis-
try, physiology of medicines; for the
most distinguished work of an idealistic
for the best effort toward the fraterni-
peace The last named is awarded by
the Norwegian parliament. The others
are awarded by institutions at Stock
holm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
BROUGHT FEW CLOTHES
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Prefers Those
Made in America.

Chicago, Dec. 10.-A New York dis
patch to the Tribune says: Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, who arrived home
from Europe yesterday, when asked if
she had brought many Paris clothes,
said
mo, brought back but few for the
reason that I think American made
gets in Paris. The materials are more
durable. they are better made and the
American dressmaker. to my mind, is
more sorfginaiin. her ideas than are the
dressmakers OF Paris The sAnderican
woman is the best dressed in the
world because she is not bound by
style. Her individuality is expressed
in her garments. In Paris women are
slaves to- mode. They are all of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Kansas Judges Get Below the
Average Amount of Salary.
Only One State Pays Less Than
State of Kansas.
RAUB GETS A PLACE.
Topeka Doctor to BE Surgeon a
Dodge City Soldiers Home.
Fight on Sunday Baseball to Be
Resumed i'm Legislature.
RAUB GETS A PLACE

Only one state in the union pays
smaller salaries to the judges of its
supreme court than Kansas. Eight
states pay the same amount as Kansas
and thirty-five states pay more accord
ing to table showing the salaries Of
the chief justices and associates in the
various states. which has just been
compiled
An effort is being made to have the
legislature raise the salaries of the
justices Of the supreme court this year.
and the fact that other states gen
orally pay higher salaries than Kansas
IS expected to have considerable
weight in getting the Legislature to
vote for the increase.
Four of the seven justices will be
affected by the raise if it should be
made The law prohibits raising the
salary of any officer during the term
for which he was elected. There has
been considerable discussion of making
the increase in salaries during the
week IN which the legislature meets
before the new officers take their
seats.
Nebraska pays it's chief justices and
associate justices $4,000 a year. $500
year less than Kansas pays, and this is
the only state that does pay a less sal
AIRY than Kansas. The following table
shows the salaries Of the justices in all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10

State Temperance union, who has con-
Quoted a number OF the inquisition
cases. in this county in the past, spoke
at the First Methodist church. he
said, among other things, that the
churches were largely to blame for ex-
listing conditions on account of the
stagnation of temperance work. He
appealed to the churches and citizens
to clean Topeka before the meeting Of
the legislature in January. Mr.. Cod
ding also accused the county and city
officials of standing in with the To-
peka joints. There is an intimate
relation between the political machin-
cry. of Shawnee county and the city OF
Topeka. and the Joints of the city he
said. How can we drive out the
joints while they are protected by the
officers of the county and city?
1.-THE Topeka joint is worse than
any Leavenworth joint" he continued.
In Leavenworth the disorderiy
houses and saloons are separated by
walls at least Here they are Joined
together, some times in one room"
This sentiment. from one who is sup-
posed to know, will be quite a shock
to virtuous Topeka. which has always
lahored under the delusion- that It
could not be so bad as beavenworth II
it tried. Mr.. Codding also Dragged OH
the morals of Fort Scott. where, he
said the police raided every place
where they heard the popping OF q
cork. He further intimated that ali
the cities. with the exception of To-
peka, had been cleaned up. and that
the TEN Derance union would now a.
Fote its attention to the capital city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
"PROUD AMP GLAD :"
Because Mother Looked SO Well
After Quitting Coffee.

An Ohio woman was almost distracted
with coffee dyspepsia and heart trouble.
Like thousands Of others. the drug in
undermining her nervous system and
interfering with natural digestion of
food.
For 80 years." she writes. Il have
used coffee. Have always been siekly-
had heart trouble and dyspepsia with
ulcers in stomach and mouth so bad
sometimes. I was almost distracted and
could hardly eat thing for a week.
Il could not sleep for nervousness,
and when I would lie down at night I'd
belch up coffee and my heart would
trouble me. At last, when I would want
to drink coffee. it would gag me- It
was like poison to me. I was thin
only weighed 125 lbs, when 1 quit cof
fee and began to use Postum.
From the first day that sbelching and
Postum went down SO easy and pleas
ant. could sleep as 7soundly as anyone
and after the first month, whenever
met any friends they would ask me what
was making me so fieshy and look so
well
quick enough. one of the children or my
husband would say. Why, that is what
Postum is doing for her'-they were all
so proud and glad.
when 1 recommend it to anyone
always tell them to follow directions in
making Postum. as it is not good to
taste If weak, but fine when it is boiled
long enough to get the flavor and rich
brown color Name given by Postum
Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little
book, The Road to MELVILLE in pkgs.
There's q reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
Shawnee FIRES New Calendar.

The Shawnee Fire Insurance company
has received from a Topeka printing es-
tablishment $4,000 twelve sheet calen-
ders.
This is the largest number OF cal
endars ever issued by an Insurance.
company in the west" says Chas. 8
Elliott of the Sha vince agency. ut re-
uqired $4,000 pounds Of paper, $4,000
feet Of tins and rings. 5i5 pounds Of Ink
and represents $3.50. 900 Impressions. fk
each calendar was laid side by side the
entire lot would reach from New York
to San Francisco Here is a point 70
consider-these calendars with the IN
dian head will be hung all over the Unit
ed States. advertising not only the
Shawnee Fire, but Topeka as we'll The
moral is, patronize home industries.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
Strength Comes
Not From What You Eat, But From
What You nikest

MOI from Wnaf n on Eat. But EEUIu
What You Digest.
Most people eati most foods witholt
observation-disclosures matters little what
Few stop to think what that food does
for them. This IS the first turn on the
road to dyspepsia. Reckless disregard
of the proper choice of foods, rapid
eating and Improper mastication. are
the unquestioned causes of all .stomafh
disorders from. the slight ache to the
malignant cancer ..,.l
There is nothing, more revolving than
a dyspeptic stomach-a very vat for
putrefaction sending forth it's poison
throughout. the ientire system, depress-
ing the brain, ibefouling the breath,
souring the taste. deadenir1g the ntt1s-
cles, incapacftating the liver and kid
neys, for their work, debilitafii1g the
heart, choking. the lungs and tclogging
the bowels
All Of these disagreeable and dam
gerous4 conditions are due to the Inn
proper digestion OF food and the con-
sequent assimilation of poison. What
else can be sexpected2 II the food lies
in the stomach If the system is cons
stipated fermentation Is the natural
outcome 1t Ashows itself in sour
watery risings,S belchings, heartburn
and painful breathing.
There is only one way to relieve this
condition. If the stomach refuses 70
digest your foodt put som thing into II
are nothing but digestives. They age
not. a medicine. They work when the
stomach Will not.
Each tablet contains enough pepsih,
diastase. GOLDEN seal and other diees-
tive elements to reduce 5000 grains Of
ordinary food to the proper consistency
for assimilation into the blood tt
Stuart's Dysp epsia. Tablets are abso@
Iute1y pure There is nothing harmful
in them as shown in their endorsement
by 10000 physicians in the United
States and Canada Iat
Ask your family physician his opih-
ion of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets and
if he is. honest toward you he will state
positively that they Will cure your
stomach trouble whatever 1t may be,
unless you have waited too long ana
have allowed your disorder to develop
into cancer
Act today and begin to end your
suffering. Al free trial package will be
sent to your address upon request. The
so cent size packages are for sale at
your druggists r. A. Stuart Co., 81
Stuart Bldg, Marshall, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
BREAKS LOOSE AGAIN.
Colorado River Once More Flows Into
the Salton Sink.

Yuma, Ariz.. Dec. 1O.-Once more
the entire Colorado river Is flowing
into the Salton sink and Imperial and
Coachella valleys are once more men
aced by rising waters. The main line
of the Southern Pacific must again be
moved to higher ground unless the
water can be brought under control
A thousand people in Salton basin
must lose their homes. including
quarter of a million acres of farming
lands, the Southern Pacific must build
zoo miles of new main line and irriga-
ton about Yuma must be abandoned
The government I.aGuna dam irriga-
ton project may become an impossl-
bilfty- At a conservative estimate not
less than $25,00O.0OO Of present values
are at stake upon the success OF the
efforts to close the break
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
JAPANESE PROTEST.
Letter Sent to Roosevelt Through Sec
rotary NIetcalf.

Chicago, Dec. 10.=A dispatch to the
Tribune from San Francisco says:
Secretary Oyafna Of the japanese
consulate in San Francisco yesterday
gave out for the first time a letter in
regard to the school question which
the japanese association of America
sent to President Roosevelt by Secre-
tary MetcaIf. It says:
1.-THE japanese, believing they have
been unjustly Disseminated against
solely on account OF race. protesting
against segregation and refusing to
cident upon their attending said orien-
tai school. have declined to obey the
order of the board of education and
unless the order be rescinded or other
relief had. the Japanese children of
San Francisco Without fault on their
part will be deprived of the Oppor-
tunity to obtain an education
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
PULLIAM VISITS THE POPE.
President of the National League Had
Enjoyable Time Abroad.

New York. Dec 19-Harry PulIiam.
returned Sunday from a trip to Europe,
in speaking of his trip last night said:
IT came the nearest I ever have in my
life to forgetting baseball while 1 was
away. I had an audience with the pope,
saw the tomb of Juliet at Verona"
Mr. Pulliam did not talk baseball poll
ties but he said the great American
game at length has become a fixed pro-
fessional castime in England
A New Stock I.en2ire O1era Glasses
just received at Chas. Benefits Opti-
cal store, $50 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10
Dr. Henrotin Is Dead.

TIenrotin, for Is years one of ChicagO's
most eminent physicians and surgeons.
and president of the Polytechnic hos
pital, died of heart disease yesterday.
aged 5 9 years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10

Washington. Dec. 1O.-The latest
gossip is 10 the effect that ex-senator
J. r. Burton. of Kansas. who is serv-
ing a term in jail at Ironton for violat-
ing the law which forbids members Of
congress from practicing before the
departments will endeavor to rein
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10

Christiania, Norway, Dec. 10.-The
Norwegian parliament has conferred the
Nobel peace prize upon President Roose-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-10

Legislation Committee. Topeka Min
isterial Union"
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19
PETER THE GREAT.

within our own recollection, more
than one of Russia's great ones has
laid down his life, the victim to Nj
hilistic hatred, the "Great White Gar"
of autocratic power and strength, or
the Little Father" of implied love,
guidance and protection, both names
and names only, falling before the
cruel dynamite bomb and laying down
his scepter under the cal of death,
even as the lowliest peasant of his
mighty Empire.
Peter the Great, founded the great
city of st Petersburg, but the best
thing he did for his Empire, was to
open it's doors to western civilian ton,
his ideas and plans living after him to
fulflment through his people, whom
he had infused with his magnetic
spirit. Catherine III, while intellect
ual, comprehensive in her plans, strong
in their execution, and a wonderful
diplomat, adding much to Russia's
territory, was utterly devoid ef con-
science. She was succeeded by her
son, Paul, who advanced the country
to the rank of first-class power, and
under Alexander /, Russia held the
balance of dominie1 in Europe.
Alexander l was followed by his
son, Nicholas i, stern despot, with
an inordinate faith in Russian Prov
ess His ever-cenfidenee brought on
the Crimean war, in which Russia was
kruunnnu2 6nsinSt Cdfeat Britain. France,
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19

small stretcher bedstead in the middle
of an empty room. His face had evil
IDENTIFY once been comedy, though now
disfgured by scars. His eyes were
closed, so if there was anything re-
pulsiye about their appearance l didn't
see it.
'You are able to wear shoes then,
Bob?'
"Ay, but you may notice they're
made of cloth and three sizes too big
for me. | had a neat foot once, Jack,
and l still wear a shoe when l can. l
don't lie here like mummy all day.
sit by the kitchen fire."
How do you get up and down
stairs?"
Would you believe it. Jack, she
carries me. | dare say you thought
her rough one to look at, but she's
Just the woman to suit me. She's as
strong in the back as brewers horse.
If I'd had the pick of the county of
Middlesex, | couldn't have married a
kinder hearted woman. And she mar
ried me for love. 1t was after the ae-
cident, you understand. Some said she
married me for my pension, but I know
better, Jack. Tell us about Van Die
mans Land, Jack, to pass away the
time"
l hesitated. for I know about as
much about Van Dieman's Land as /
60 of the moon.
"Ah. see how it is, jack" said the
cripple. you're ashamed, and no
wonder. / like you the better for it.
But you needn't mind now. You've
served out your seven years and as !
always said you was young and led
away by Bill Hawkins. And, Jack,"
he added. eonfidentially. we've always
kept up the notion in the family that it
was poaching. 1t sounds more re-
spectacle than, than-you know what.
But l say, Jack" pursued the Grip
pie, transportation can't be as bad as
it's represented. 1t has softened your
voice. made you talk better and given
you quite touch of quality. You were
roughish young blade when bid you
goodbye at Milbank penitentiary. Do
you recollect how Bill Hawkins jeered
Won because gave you mothers lit
| tie clasp Bible?"
Here was a pretty position for q re-
spectacle young fellow to occupy. For
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19

sleeper and he called out: kitty, Kit
ty, Kitty, | say, you amt come back
without him." / stood perfectly still
and held my breath. After considering
a moment, | took a half-hearted step
towards the door, when the man in bed
cried out in an excited voice: That's
a mans step! My Jack, is it you?
All, | see, you wanted to surprise me.
1t is you, Jack, amt it?" He said
these last words in such beseeching
tone, that | could not help answering:
1T is"
''Then where's Kitty"
Il hope to see her presently"
Gone to the cook-shop to get some
thing in honor of your arrival. Jack.
| wonder what it will be. Maybe an eel
pie with baked 'taters, or a plate of
savory beef, or dish of billed tripe
and inions; ah-h."
"You seem to like good eating" I
ventured to say.
"Why, Jack, my boy. it's one of the
few pleasures / have left. Thank God
nv appetites always good. And when
mans lost the use of his limbs and
can't see out of his eyes, he makes the
DcSl uEt VI tllo oloiidth. VI oSn ~
to light a candle, Jack, but I'm half
ashamed for you to see what battered
hulk I've become. Twelve years ago,
when you emigrated, you understand
me, Jack Che said this in shy way,
/ was as handsome and well growed a
man as you'd wish TO see, wasn't /.
Jack?"
you were"
"And now I'm useless cripple"
How did it happen?"
''What! you never got Kitty's letter,
directed to Hobart Town, Van Die
mans Land? And hasn't Kitty told
you, coming along in the cab?"
mot a word" -
"Ah, poor girl, she didn't like to
grieve you. Well, the powder mill in
which l was working blew up--they
mostly do every FIVE years-and blew
me along with it: blew me up good
looking, active chap, Jack, and dropped
me down a miserable blind cripple
AS he said these last words his voics
failed him and he shed tears.
"And how do you manage to liver
"Well, Jack. the firm behaved very
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19

handsomely. They allowed me ten
shillings a week and Kitty takes care
of empty houses. We contrive to
scratch along, somehow. But come,
Jack, you've never offered your brother
your hand yet. Let me shake your
hand, even if you didn't care to light a
candle"
| stepped forward and gave him my
hand.
"Lawll, Jack, why your hands al
most like gentleman's hand! 1t
amt so soft as a dressmaker's or
haberdasher's; it's about equal to a
master-builder."
you seem to know all about hands,"
| observed.
"Ah," he answered with a sigh, t'that
comes of want of eyes. When I had
my sight l took no note of such things,
but now I've delicate touch. / wish
Kitty would come back with that sup
per. I'm getting throat hungry"
Are you afraid of thieves here?" l
asked.
"Why?"
Because you lock up your kitchen
and back door. Can you tell me where
the back door key hangs?"
at don't hang anywhere" replied
the cripple. Its in Kitty's pocket"
'And the kitchen door key?"
Elm her pocket. They're all in her
pocket"
Here was another disappointment. l
must wait until kitty's return and face
her boldly. l was interrupted in my
reflections by my companion, who said:
Come, Jack, strike a light and take
look at your poor brother Bob. You'll
find the matches in one of my shoes
and the candlestick is under my bed"
| lighted the candle and saw man,
about forty years of age, lying on a
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19
ROMANCE OF A COAT.
An Old Clothes Dealer Whose Kindly
Act Melted Him Twenty-Five
Dollars.

The world is full of romance. There
are persons who deny this, but there
are persons who deny God and grayi.
tation. Romance is not confined to
novels and the hearts of girls. It
crops out often in strange places and
sometimes in austere natures. But 1t
is not often that romance is found
in the pocket of a cast,off coat. How
ever, this story proves it. The story
comes from New York. A dealer in
old clothes, asserting his collection Of
"has-been" raiment found in the pocket
of coat that had seen better days,
letter. 1t was sealed and addressed to
a lady in an aristocratic part OF the
city far removed from the section OF
the city in which the old clothes man
lived and worked. He laid the letter
aside thinking that some day when
the spirit moved him and times were
prosperous he would stamp and post
it.
Perhaps it was several days later
when he had occasion to call for q
bundle of disowned apparel in a part
Of the town near the home of the ad-
dressee of the letter. He took the
missive with him, called at the house,
was brushed aside by the man at the
door, but a lady emerging at that mo
ment, he handed the letter to her.
She tore it open in great haste and as
she read it bushes Redeemed her face
and a happy smile spread over her
lips. She folded the letter, put 1t in
her purse and handed the "old clio
man" S. note. He felt that he had
not only done good deed but had
been rewarded.
A week passed and dapper, we'll
greomed man entered his shop. He
said he was the original owner of the
coat from which the letter had been
recovered. He said that in the letter
he had proposed marriage to the girl
he loved and thought he mailed it.
Receiving no reply he believed that he
had been rejected and left the city.
He had recently received an adorable
reply from the young lady with an ex-
PLANTATION as to how the letter had
been delivered and-the wedding day
had been set. All this he thought was
due to the "old clo' man." To the man
who had rendered him such good ser
vice he handed a $50 note.
The moral of this romance is do q
kindly act when you can" Another
moral might be drawn from the Incl
dent, and this is: When you write an
offer Of marriage to the girl you love,
be sure she gets the letter.