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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27

is entitled to it. Living is certainly
twice as high in Manila as it is in Atchi-
son. Major Bishop pays SIS a month
house rent; he owns a better house in
Salina for which he receives SIS d
month. He pays 500 a month rent
for his law office; at Salina. he says,
an equally good office can be rented
over the drugstore for SIS a month.
Nearly everything the people eat is
shipped in: from Australia or America,
and the prices are consequently very
high.
One of the most imposing buildings
in Manila is a government pawn shop,
erected in the days of Spanish Occu-
pancy. People went to the pawn
shop and borrowed money on collat-
erals at a low rate of interest. The
place is not conducted by the church,
but the rate charged for money has
been advanced to , per cent month.
The church in the Philippines is not
wealthy. America will never have
peace and prosperity in the Philip
pines so long as the church is I'M
friendly, as it is now The American
government must either make friends
with the church, or attack it, as the
French government did.
They say the meanest Filipino is the
Togalo. the variety living in Manila.
I often heard while there that the ma
peror to the natives of Manila; and
to those living in the immediate vicin-
ity. for Manila is really composed of
a lot of little towns that have grown
together. These little towns maintain
their identity, as far as possible. The
only voting a Filipino is permitted to
do is to vote for the mayor of his
town, and to vote for the governor of
his province; but the mayor and the
governor are more or less figureheads.
If the governor is not satisfactory.
military governor is appointed. who
takes charges, and chases the bandits.
Cavite province, only a short distance
from Manila has a military governor
at present. and 7 met the governor:
captain in the army.
The Americans are filing up a lot
of land on the bay shore. and that
part of Manila will be greatly i'm
proved. 1t is said the land now being
reclaimed is larger in area than the
old walled city. The mud taken out in
the process of deepening the harbor, is
used in retaining the bay shore.
E w H
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27
BARGAIN SALES.
They Have Been Found Necessary
in Many Localities.
In Order to Move Stocks of Win
ter Goods.
RAILWAY EARNIN GS.
Show an Increase of IL Per Cent
Over Last Year.
Less Business Failures Reported
Than n Vaa7. Aro

New York, Jan. 27.-R. G. Dun & Co. S
Weekly Review of Trade says:
No change appears in the business
situation. weather conditions favoring
outdoor work, but causing accumulation
of heavy weight wearing apparel. Re
ports from the northwest are favorable
but most other sections have found bar
gain sales necessary to reduce stocks
of winter goods. Rubber mills have re
duced time to five days a week, and
numbering operations are seriously re-
tarded by lack of snow and soft ground.
Otherwise news of the week is steady
and distribution Of spring goods. Pro-
ducts for fall are also ordered freely,
nots bly, in the footwear industry; and
shipments of boots and shoes from
Boston for the month thus far eclipse
all previous records. which is especially
significant when viewed in the light Of
the rapid growth of the industry in
other sections. Iron and steel plants
have made steady progress and manu-
featuring consumption of fuel is heavy,
but house hold demand for anthracite
coal reflects the mild tempera ture that
has prevailed. Labor discussions are
not all settled. but there is little serious
interruption on this account. Railway
earnings thus far available for January
show an Increase of 1870 per cent over
last years, while foreign commerce at
this port for the last week exhibits a
gain of S1.411. 709 in exports and loss
of 50 339, SIS in imports as compared
with the movement IN the corresponding
week of 1905
STEADY Improvement is noted in the
primary markets for textile fabrics,
urgent requests for prompt delivery in
dorsing earlier estimates of reduced
stocks. Leather holds fairly steady,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27

jects, and not as brothers. Secretary
Taft is very unpopular with the Ameri-
can resident. AS the American resi-
dents are on the ground, am inclined
to side with them.
It does not take much of a critic to
see mistakes in the Philippines. We
lately paid an enormous sum of money
for the friar lands. Intelligent resi-
dents say our government was swim
died; that the lands are not worth one
half what we paid for them.
Wherever I go here. am impressed
with the politeness of army and navy
people They are an exceedingly cred
liable class. [ have heard that the Of
hcers drink too much, but have seen
little of it, except that one night, on
board the miserable s'Tean" and an
army man who was passenger,
bOwled UP to whip the captain of the
ship. But the fight didn't come off;
indeed. the two afterwards became
quite chummy. The army and navy
people are always genteel and intelli-
gent, as well as polite, and you cannot
be around them much without admir-
ing them.
Living is very expensive in Manila;
possibly the girl school teacher who
received $50 a month in Kansas, and
now receives $3.50 a month in Manila
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27

Totals 81 e S. $50 1854
Outside n ~ 1,059. 1884
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27
Globe Man Compares Them to an
Ordinary Sized Ham.
Secretary Taft Very Unpopular
With the Americans.
Strongly Object to His Policy
Of Benevolent Assimilation,

Man ~. December II -
After school was dismissed I visited
the only sugar refinery in the islands,
with MT. Montavon. By the way. L
never before visited a sugar refinery
Then we went down to MI Montavons
house for luncheon and here / saw
q Filipino cooking stove: it is simply
d camp fire-twO rocks on a raised dirt
platform. the smoke being carried off
10y means of a sheet iron hood. A Fill
piuo woman cook was preparing din
ner on the ''stove," her fire being built
OF pine box lids. The MOntavons had
moved into the house only a few days
before, and had an American range
packed. and the luncheon was all the
more enjoyable because of its informal
character. Mrs. MOntavon had a num-
Der of native servants, and I noticed
that she did most of the work herself
The house was large rambling affair
fronting on the river. When Mrs
MOntavOn needs groceries, she is COM
PEELED to send a servant to Manila
The condensed water they use and
their ice, also come from Manila. Miss
Agnes MOntavOn, a very pretty girl of
eighteen, accompanied her brother to
Manila, and everything impressed her
a. strangely as it did US.
On our way back to town. by cleo
trio car, we noticed that al every stop
an American motorman stepped
aboard. and watched things. The
American force is back OF everything
I'm Manila, and in good many other
places for that matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27
Bradstreet's.
Rradsfreet's saws

Bradstreet's says:
Barring a touch of cold weather IN
the west, the season still retains its
previous appearance of a mild, open
winter, with natural effects upon re-
tail trade, industrial operations in gen
eral and prices of many commodities,
which tend downward. Perhaps the
most notable feature at present is the
continued activity in building, which
has practically gone on without
break, and which is making new rec
Ords in prices of lumber and in de-
mand for other materials. Final dis
tribution is still being stimulated by
forced sales at retail and a few lines of
wholesale business, notably, heavy
clothing and rubber goods, reflect un-
readiness to buy freely for next sea-
sons wants. AS to spring trade, only
optimistic reports are current. Ship
ments are being called for and made
freely, open weather favOring the rail-
ways as rarely before to handle the
large business offering. A freer move
mcnt of cereals to market has made
for ease in prices, which lack agrees
sive new export demand. The excel
lent condition of the farming interests
is shown by very heavy buying of ag-
ricultural implements at the west and
Of fertilizers at the south, the latter
apparently presaging heavy acreage
in cotton the coming spring. Needed
snow covering is reported in many
parts of the winter wheat belt, here
tofore bare, and good reports come
from Texas and California as the re-
suit of recent heavy precipitation. The
cold following the storm seems to have
done no harm in the sections af-
fected. >,
Demand for structural iron and
steel is favored by the open winter.
coal and coke easing for the same rea-
son, and record contracts for pipe
have been awarded with resultant
large sales of low grade pig iron. Col
lectons generally range from fair to
good. Money is easier and in better
supply Reports as to spring trade in
cottons are as optimistic as heretofore.
Raw wool is steady, with more inquiry
and confidence based upon firm Lon
don prices. Clothing manufacturers
at the east are reported to have good
sized stocks of heavy goods left on
their hands.
THE railways are doing an excel
lent business. Reports OF leading
roads for the half of January are the
best of which there is record. show
ing as they do q gain of nearly 5 per
cent over last year.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending January
% 1906. number 276, against 279 last
week. 22S in the like week of 1905.
! 242 in 1904. 2S0 in 1903 and 3O3 in
1902. IN Canada failures for the week
number 80. as against 36 last week
/ and 3 this week a year ago"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27

tanners anticipating early orders from
shoe manufacturers who are not well
supplied with material. Quotations rule
firm. A somewhat opposite situation
exists in the hide market, particularly
as to packer natives that were freely
offered at a decline of about half
cent. Failures this week numbered 334
in the United States against SO4 last
year, and forty in Canada compared
with forty-three a year ago"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-27
Bank CIearinas.

The following table, compiled by Brad
street shows the bank clearings at the
principal cities for the week ended Jan
uary 3 with the percentage of increase
and decrease. as compared with the cor
responding week last year:
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
IA. MIX. TWOMBLY, JR., DROWNED
Seized With Cramps While Swimming
in Big SQuam Lake.

Ashland, N. H.-H. Nick Twombly,
JF., only son of the New York CAPT
talist, got a cramp and was drowned
In Big Squam Lake, Holderness, \.
six miles from Ashland. He was
eighteen years old, and four weeks
ago had graduated from Groton
School, in Groton, Mass. He had
looked forward to a course at Yale,
and only a short time before his
death had been talking enthusiastic
ally of his future caree at college.
The young man, whose mother is
the sister of the late Cornelius Van
derbilt and of William X, Frederick
W. and George W. Vanderbilt. would
have been one of the richest boys in
the United States had he lived to at
tain his majority.
Young Twombly had gone to the
lakeside with a party of students who
had graduated from the Groton
School. He was the best swimmer
in the little coterie.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Senator Chauncey M. Depew is TAX
Ing the rest cure at Dobbs Ferry.
Senator Hansbrough began Is a
printer after leaving the public
school.
Senator Perkins, who was a Maine
farmers boy, went to sea When he
was thirteen.
Edison is unquestiona11y n of the
most unassuming and democratic of
our great men.
The Duke Of Abruzzi has sailed
for Africa to explore the Ruwenzoni
mountain range.
King Edward is fond of plovers'
eggs, which he generally spreads on
Russian black bread.
Before he was twenty Senator Pat
terson had worked for eight years as
a printer and jeweler.
Professor A. B. Macullum, OF
Toronto University, has been elected
q member of the Royal Society of
London.
Thomas F. Ryan. who, next to John
D. Rockefeller, is regarded in the
Wall Street district as the most de-
termined money maker in America,
is a director in t~hirty-two corpora
tions.
John Burns, now 4 British Cabinet
Minister, once contended publicly
that no mans work is worth more
than $500 a year. Yet Burns has
accepted an Office which pays $4,000
a year.
In addition to his knowledge of
continental tongues, King Edward is
said to know a little Gaelic. 1t is
probably not very much, for even
Robert Louis Stevenson, a born Scot,
could not master this difficult tongue.
Ebert H. Gary, Chairman Of the
United States Steel Corporation. has
ordered a family mausoleum, costing
$4,000 to be built at Wheaton.
Ill. The largest roof stones ever
quarried will be used in the mauso-
leum.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
GIRL SHOULDERS A MURDER
confesses to Killing a Youth After
Accusing Two Young Men.
Emma Stephany Tells How She Shot
Her Sweetheart James FrIzzneA
While Celebrating the Fourth.

Pottsville, Pa.-First duplicating
two young men of prominent fami-
lies in the murder of James Frizz-
nell, whose body was found in the
street on July 4, then clearing the
men and taking the blame for the
shooting on her own shoulders, En-
ma Stephany, nineteen years old,
daughter of a prominent merchant
of this place, amazed the police by
the stories which she told. Because
of the sudden change in her stories
the police are inclined to believe that
the girl is demented. and that
neither she nor the young men whose
names she told know anything about
Frizznell's death. Yet both her
have the imprint of truth, and the
girl now is under arrest awaiting
the result of an investigation by the
police.
F~rizznell's body was found in the
street on the morning of the Fourth
of July with a bullet wound in his
breast. Among those whom the
police questioned in regard to the
shooting was Miss Stephany. She
said that she had seen the man slain.
and she mentioned the names of
those who she said did the shoot
ing. The police visited the young
men mentioned by the girl. but ap-
parently they were able to prove
a complete alibi, for they were not
arrested.
The police continued their work
on the case, and they were sur
prised when the girl walked into
headquarters and said that she want
ed to retract the story she told and
take all the blame for the killing.
She asserted that she shot Frizznell
accidentally with his own revolver
in celebrating the Fourth. She said
he loaned her the pistol and that she
meant to fire it in the air. She shut
her eyes when she pulled the trigger.
and when she opened them again
Frlzzneu was lying on the ground
with a bullet in his breast.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
TAR HEEL CROP BULLETIN
General Summary of Condition Of
North Carolina Crops for Week
Ending Monday, July 8, 1905.

The weather during the past week
has been generally cloudy with fire.
quent rains especially in the central
and eastern districts where the dam
age by excessive rain was consider
able. The rain over the entire State
averaged about 0.80, inch above the
normal. The greatest excess was at
Wilmington where the rainfall was
2.47 inches above the normal amount.
In the western district the rains were
reported, and the week as a whole in
that section was favorable. The warm
weather of the week ending July 2nd
continued until the 3rd when the
weather became gradually cooler. the
temperature averaging for the week
1 to 3 degrees lowe rthan the normal.
The highest maximum temperature
reported was SO degrees in Halifax
County on the 3rd; and the lowest
was go degrees in Buncombe county
on the 9Th and 9th.-A. III. iThiessen,
Section Director.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12

Of the music of Heaven IN a holy
tone.
There's a world of difference be-
tween wishing and willing.
Education is always deficient 90
long as it can see a terminus.
The preacher who is anxious for
popularity loses his power.
Wealth is a matter Of appreclatm
rather than of acquisition.
You cannot prove your holiness By
putting your head into Heaven.
He to whom success is the soul Of
all will not find success IN his soul
The blessings that nOurlsh a living
tree work the decay of a dead one
The worst part of any trouble e
waiting for it.
1ou lose force with men as soon as
Won lose faith Ia them. /
Every great talent has come out OIL
MANY a furnace-like trial.
No man ever succeeded in preach
ing truth by acting a lie.
The worldly Christian will never
make the Christian world.
The fercest fighting may be but tue
polishing of the crowns.
Only the smile that is rooted bears
fruits of refreshing.
r. The world is not lighted by barn
ing the candle at both ends.
A mans judgment of others Is Of
ten an Indictment of himself.
Complacency IS often compiscsO'-
" mistaken for conservation.
The emerged 1.-THE will do a It IS
solve The problem Of the subme's'
ed tenth.
Many women forget that 1t taA'
more than a perfect house to MAKE :
home.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
CHOLERA RAGING IN MANILA
The Epidemic Confined Almost
Entirely to Native Population.
Health Authorities Have Thus Far
Been Unable to Stop Spread
Of the Disease.

Washington, D. c. information
War Department from Manila is to
the effect that cholera in a very viru-
lent form is raging there. During the
week ending July 4 there were 116
cases and ninety-nine deaths from the
disease. That the health authori-
ties have thus far been unable to stop
the spread of the disease is indicated
by the further report that during the
fwenty-four hours preceding 8
O'Clock a.. M, were twelve cases and
five deaths reported from b prov
dnces. During the same period in
Manila there were Twenty-Five cases
which came to the knowledge of the
Health Department, twenty-three of
which were fatal.
The situation has assumed a YER
grave aspect, and the authorities
have taken stringent measures to
stamp out the disease as speedily as
possible, but it seems to have gained
On Roadway which is regarded with
some apprehension. It is said that
the disease is confined almost en-
firely to the native population, al
though several cases among white
persons have been reported. 1t is be-
lfeved, however, that the army and
the civilian employees Of the insular
Government have thus far escaped
from the ravages of the disease. 1t
has been the practice of the Philip
pine authorities to cable the names
OF employees of the Government in
case of death. and as none have been
reported in this name it is thought
that there have been no fatalities
among them.
The islands have never been en-
8irely free from cholera, but up to
the present time the disease has been
specifically under control, only an iso-
lated case having been reported to
the authorities from time to time.
After an absence dating from
March 81 cholera again reappeared
in Manila early in May, when there
were six cases and six deaths. Dur
ing May there were also fifteen cases
and twelve deaths from the same dis
ease in the provinces. Every possible
effort was made to trace the source
OF infection, but so far all attempts
have been unsuccessful. The first
case occurred in the person of a beg
gar, who was known to have been in
the city for at least several weeks.
As far as could be learned, he ate
only such iood as is common to the
poorer classes. While it has not been
possible to trace any connection be-
tween the cases, yet they have all oc-
CURED in the district OF Tondo, and
ALI of them in houses that border on
the same estero.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
BRlTONS LOSE FAMOUS CUP.
Grand Challenge Trophy at Henley
Captured by Belgians.

Henley, England.-The crew rep
resenting the Club Nautique de Grand
ABelgiuml defeated Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, by three lengths in the
Hnal for the Grand Challenge Cup.
Time, seven minutes nine seconds.
The cup thus leaves England for the
1rst time in it's history, and for the
next twelve months will adorn the
headquarters of the Belgian Rowing
Club.
The ease with which the Belgians
beat the crack British crew was a
rather rough shock to the compla-
s4cency OF the home oarsmen and to
their belief in the hitherto unshaka-
ble invincibility Of their methods of
rowing.
The short, quick stroke and lack
OF leg-work of the Belgians have
been criticised by the British experts
since the first appearance of the for
eign crew.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
NEWSY

A record wheat crop is predicted.
One person in 400 is. insane in
Ohio.
Some Americans are to open a big
department store in London.
New York has ccided to erect q
monument to Cerl SchurZ.
Heavy rain spoiled King Edwards
birthday celebration; London sub
ways were flooded.
The Wells, Fargo & Co. Express
Company has been put on a ten per
cent. dividend basis.
Six hundred men in Indian Terri
tory hanged and burned a negro who
had assaulted a girl of fifteen.
A japanese expert said that most
of the earthquake losses in San Fran
cisco were caused by faulty construc-
ton.
A. b. Hepburn, President of the
Chase National Bank, estimated that
Americans spent $500, O00,0 900 abroad
yearly.
1t is reported that the suits which
the Administration expects to bring
against the Standard Oil may result
in 100000 VIC tn CT fines.
American delegates to the I%nterna-
tional Wireless Congress will propose
a plan to punish companies for re-
fusing to communicate with other
systems.
Two whipthong makers who went
into bankruptcy recently in South
wark, England, declared that they
had been ruined by motors, and es-
-0aio11y Nv raofnT 0nonShnCoc
An p in the Bronx. Geological
Park, New York City, seized a lighted
cigar thrown into his cage and set
fire to a bunch of hay, almost caus-
ing a panic among the spectators.
Morrison G. Swift was fined SO
for posting placards denouncing
money kings on the doors of the
Offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the
Standard Oil Company, in New York
City.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
Teachers Salaries Raised.

Durham, Special.-The teachers of
Durham county's public schools have
received a slight raise for the ensu-
ing years work. The larger schools,
where but one teacher is employed,
the salary was raised from $40 to
$40. In other instances the increase
was from $50 to $40 and from $50 to
$45. In other instances the increase
was from $50 to $40 and from $50 to
$50. In preparing for the fall work
the board apportioned about $2O,O0O
$1,000 was set aside as building
fund and $1,000 as a contingency
fund.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-12
BUILD SHEDS FOR CATTLE.

Aside from the fact that the cow
have the fresh grass during the sun.
mer, the main reason why they aS9
contented is that they have plent! -
exercise, fresh air and are cOHllots
able. We hear men say that tHSD
COWS do splendidly during the sur
mer, but are very disappointing dpl
ing the winter, and some of these n'r
are known to be good ~proViders-'n@s
is, their COWS are reasonably wen ="
during the winter and the ration :
nearly properly balanced. The liz
Bile is that the animals are not oo~
Portable. In too many cases the :.
are cold to the point of freeath5r
other cases they are not VenILi"L. ~
and the animals are being stlhea W."
the foul air, Again, some COWS he
given little or no exercise duFlhs ~
winter. If they get any at all II
turning them out in the cold Da4 To-
to drink ice-coId water. Reh" tbo.
the exercising shed, and DelOi0 a.
COWS 90 into winter quarters d." -
have one of these sheds and also NJ
n the stables so they WIZ"
warm and still properly Veh'
Do this, together with the pr 81
feeding, and you will find the co s,mp1
contented and happy as III 'no A.
mer time, and they will sho" >"
probation by the milk now