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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14
TIME FOR ACTION.

just why the country should suffer
financially on account Of the misdo-
ings CT a lot of blackleg gamblers who
haunt the stock exchanges Of New
York City is beyond the comprehen-
sion Of the average citizen. And why
the government should come to the
relief of these same gamblers with
millions of the peoples money is still
more beyond human reason. If the
crops were a failure and the people
themselves who have contributed this
money into the Golfers Of the govern
mental treasury should ask for as
sistance the chances are it would be
denied them. Only last week a south
ern congressman made application to
the treasury department for loan Of
several millions Of dollars to the cot
ton producers Of the South, offer
ing to give as collateral warehouse re-
ceipts showing that the cotton had
been stored. The department re-
fused to advance penny. Yet when
the gamblers Of Wall street, who try
to control the price Of cotton and
other commodities without handling
dollars worth Of the real product,
get in trouble the secretary Of the
treasury hurries to their relief with
millions Of the peoples money and
gives it to them without interest.
Just how this juggling of the peo-
ple's interests and means appeals to
some men, blinded by partisanship,
may be entirely different from the
idea entertained by this humble
scribe, but all The same we believe
there is absolutely NO sense Of JUS
tice in it.
The Mirrors position on this ques.
tion is one Of broad humanity. The
people compose this country, they sup
port the government, they comprise
its army and navy, and whatever
favors the government has to dispense
should go to them. Stock gamblers
thrive on the sweat and blood Of
thousands Of men, women and child
rem who work in the cotton patches
Of the South while the boiling sur
tans their skin and sows the seeds Of
an early death.
One honest farmer who makes his
living by the sweat Of his brow is
worth mere to the country than all
the gamblers and spectators Wall
street has ever housed. One is pre-
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ONE OLD MAN FAYS THE
PRICE.

A pathetic echo of the insurance
scandals was the bitter sigh of aged
DR.. Walter R. Gillette, former vice
president of the Mutual Life Tnsur-
ance Company, convicted of perjury
in trying to hide the misuse of in
surance funds by his superiors. 1t is
sad to see a man sixty-seven years old
go to prison, and in this case there is
the added irony of minor offender
paying the price big culprits avoided.
However, DR.. Gillette knew the ma
ture and penalty of perjury.
In its last analysis the very plea
he made in court Of his long career
hitherto unblemished by a breath of
falsshood and dishonor, points to the
sinister fast that exactly such men
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PRESIDENT DIsLIKEs FUSION

1t must be perfectly clear by this
time to the friends of Herbert Par
sons and President Roosevelt in New
York City that the President does
not approve of the preposterous
Hearst-Parsons alliance and fusion
on the county ticket, says the Wash
lngton correspondent of the New
York Evening Post. On the day he
returned to Washington from the
Louisiana canebrakes President
Roosevelt hastily made it known
through one of his accredited spokes-
men that Mr.. Parsons had not con-
suited with the White House before
he began fis trading with Hearst.
The President s eagerness 10 set
himself right with his New York
friends was but another way of say
ing that had Mr.. Parsons come to him
for advice he would have been
warned against Hearst. Hearst is to-
day as much the pet abomination Of
Mr.. Roosevelt as he was when the
President asked Mr.. Root to 60 to
Utica and excoriate the editor in a
speech. Mr.. Roosevelt will not pub
icly denounce the Parsons Hearst al
lance, but he has q good many ways
of letting his views be known. If
the President could "stand for it"
Mr.. Parsons by this time would have
found means Of making the fact
known that his great mistake had the
sanction Of the national administra-
ton.
Republicans from various parts of
the country have been in Washington
since the Hearst-Republican fusion
ticket was put in the field. Not one
Of them has had q good word to say
for it. President Roosevelt seemed
both amazed and indignant on his re-
turn here that it shonld have been
supposed in New York that he had
been consulted and given his approval
before the deal was made.
Some Of the reasons which Republi-
cans In ether states have expressed
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Public Opinion Throughout the Union

ducer, the other is consumer. No
man has right to live who does not
produce at least as much as he con
sunes. When this catio is reversed
he becomes a burden on humanity.
And our government certainly has no
right to encourage this detestable
horde Of leeches on the body polite.
This is not republicanism nor de-
mocracy, but pure Americanism.
Americanism stands for Americans.
The man who robs his fellow man Of
his just dues is criminal. The stock
exchange and those who manipulate
it rob. It is purely game Of chance.
When they lose, thsy alone should
be hurt. But our present system
seems to make angels out Of devils,
citizens OFT of pirates.
A protest should go up from every
community so strong that the next
congress will pass law forever wip-
ing cut the bucket shops, exchanges
and ether institutions that prey on
the public.
There ID no reason for any local
uneasiness on account Of The strin-
geney in the eastern money market.
The banks Of the South are merely
adopting precautionary methods to
keep the funds in the South, instead
OF turning them loose to go to New
York where the demand at present
is so great for ready cash that thew
are Offering as high as IS per cent
interest. This furry Will blow over
within short time anI everything
will settle down to a normal condi-
tion. 1t is absurd to become excited
over the fact that thc banks won't
pay you all that is coming to you. IF
they did this, you would take the
money, hide it away, keep it out Of
circulation and paralyze business. Re-
ferring particularly TO the situation
In Clifton, no depositor or stcckLold-
er should be alarmed. The bank here
is doing just what all southern banks
arc doing-paying only a limited
amount each week to customers. BY
this means every one having all ac-
count can get enough money to live
on and no cne is made to suffer The
bank here has enough assets to pay
every depcsitor one hundred cents on
the dollar, even If the situation
should go to the bad. However.
there is no reason 70 believe it will
get any verse. BY keeping cool the
business interests of this section will
suffer very ittle.-Clifton Mirror.
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GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE.

This undaunted man will surely
emerge triumphant from the predica-
ment in which the financial disturb
ances eliminating this week have
placed him and several Of the great
industrial companies Of which he Is
the illustrious and honored head.
George Westinghouse is man who
knows no fear, and always conquers.
He is not a speculator, not a "Na-
poleon of Finance" not dreamer Of
dreams, but a great inventor and a
lions Of capital. No successful man
over, and carrying American courage
and foresight and enterprise into
every country on the globe. He has,
by sheer grit, and the genius of en-
hghtened persistence, built up some
of the most important industries of
our time. He is one of the most COM
manding figures in the engineering
world, honored everywhere for his
integrity no less than for his achieve
ments. In his employ, both in Amer
lea and Europe, are many thousands
Of men; in his industries many mil
work, not ease, is his delight. To
of this era cares less for the personal
acquisition of money than he, few
care so little for it. He has never
sought to gather wealth for its own
sake. Money is to him but an instru-
ment which, used with brains, makes
industry grow. Years ago he might
have retired with vast wealth. But
work, not ease, is his delight To
him, perhaps more than to any other
individual, is due much Of the won-~
drous progress in transportation, and
IN the commercial application Of cleo
tricity. Any serious reverse to
man of this character and force would
partake of the nature of public ca
lamity. But he will not permit the
present difficulty to seriously retard
him. He will go on. 1t may truly
be said of him that he has long been
a creator Of wealth, a discoverer of
opportunity, a powerful influence in
the advance Of the age. In all lands
men will rejoice, fer his sake as we'll
as for their own, that his industrial
organizations are solvent, and every
where there is hope that he will be
spared for many more years Of su-
perb achievement by which armies
Of labor benefit and the whole body
Of civilization is aided in its onward
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14

may be bulwarks Of public mischief.
DIR. Gillette gave his personal repute
his sworn word-to hide crime.
After all, the sentiment that hides
crime for the sake of salary is a
sordid sort Of loyalty.--New York
American.
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HARTMAN STAYS AWAY
Will Not Attend Union Pacific Stock
holders Meeting at Salt Lake.

New York, Oct. Sc. H. Hartman
will not attend the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Union Pacific
Railroad company which will be held
at Salt Lake today. The management
will be represented by w. ID. Cornish,
vice president and general manager,
who will preside. and Joseph HELEN.
assistant secretary. 1t is expected
here that all the present directors will
be reelected, including William Mahl,
who was elected a successor to David
Wilcox last summer.
1t was denied that H. H. Rogers,
owing to ill health had decided not to
accept a reelection. The report was
declared to be without foundation, and
it was said that the management ex-
pected to re-elect the entire board with
the biggest vote in the history of the
company. There were rumors, how
ever. in the financial district that OBJ
lection to the present control will
develop at the meeting.
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IN OLD ENGLISH STYLE.
Chicago Packers Will Serve a Banquet
to Visitors.

Chicago, Oct. S.-Ten thousand dol
lars will be spent by Chicago packers
on the feast they will serve in the new
banquet hall of the Auditorium Annex
tonight to members of the American
Meat Packers association which opened
its annual convention in Chicago yester-
day.
''Ye olden time English is the way
the repast is styled, and it is the in
tention to run the old English idea
through all the courses and all the ap-
purtenances.
OF course the roast beef of old Eng
land will be the chief dish and there
will be English ale with which to wash
it down. The walters will be CARRIED in
Elizabethan costumes, knickerbockers,
red coats and white hose. One of the
novel features of the menu is that none
of the dishes appears labelled with it's
recognized name, but will be designated
through some appropriate quotation
from Shakespeare.
All of the viands will be prepared I'M
der the direction of member of the
Eccentric club of London. famous for
it's dinners. In two wheeled carts pat
termed after those used in England
whole joints of beef will be wheeled in
by walters and the meat carved by the
attendants right at each table.
Old English songs will be sung
throughout the dinner by a quartette
with choruses in which the company can
join.
The evening VIII wind up with a
smoke fest for which an English
church warden pipe and silver tobacco
box filled with English tobacco will be
presented to each guest.
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100 MORE LIGHTS
Council Committee to Consider
New Plan Tonight.
May Buy Second Hand Equip
ment for Topeka.
MORE BOILER VOLUME
Use of Gas Gives More Power
for DynamOs.
III. IL. Goodrich Doesn't Want
Old Lamps Bought.
BOILER VOLUME

A proposition to sell two dynamos
and thirty lamps from a dismantled
electric light plant at Joplin, Missouri,
will be made to the gas and electric
lights committee of the council at a
| meeting to be held this evening.
The Joplin plant has changed over
to a new system and offers for sale the
old equipment.
The. two .dynamos have a capacity
of SO lamps each and a price of $500 is
asked. II. 3. Howard, a member of
the committee, states that the old
copper in the dynamos is worth alone
the purchase price and that the city
will be able, after using them to dis
pose of the old copper, securing at
least $500. The thirty lamps are OF
the Thompson-Housto type and the
price asked is IS per lamp. The COM
mittee believes by spending $50 on
the old lamps that il has stored now
awaiting repairs and with the pur-
chase of the 80 TIL lamps that it will
nave enough to increase the present
lamps in service by close to 100 lamps.
The boiler capacity of the plant has
been increased by 25 per cent by the
use of natural gas is claimed by
Councilman Howard, and he says with
the saving which will be made in the
cost of fuel, which will amount to
close to $500 for the year. of natural
have increased it's expense any by add
ing on the additional lamps. J. w.
Harris of Kansas City, who is acting
as agent for the sale of the above
equipment, will meet with the COM
mittee.
"The TIL. lamps are worse than
nothing" said H. K. Goodrich, super
intendent Of the city electric light
plant. Il have gone all over the
ground of this electric lamp business
and the TIL. lamps are dear at any
price. They don't make them any
more. The Thompson-Houston COM
pany is out of existence, it was alb
sorbed by the trust and the parts to
the lamp are no longer manufacture
ed. Consequently if the lamps got out
of repair and you had to send for
parts you would be up against it.
Our present open arc lamps,
though they are no longer manufac-
tured, the parts are still to be had for
they are still manufactured. 1 GER
tainly wouldn't advise that the city
purchase those lamps even at IS per
lamp"
The members composing the gas
and electric lights committee are
Councilman Hughes, Holiday, How
ard and Tandy.7s 800 = g. s
A car load of new poles is on hand
for the electric light department and
will be used to. replace some of the
old poles now in use but in-b bad shape.
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DOCTORS WILL MEET.
Semiannuai Session to Be Held Thurs
day at Throop.

The semiannual meeting of the
Northeast District Medical society will
be held in Topeka on Thursday, Oct.
10, at the Throop hotel. The sessions
will be at 2:30 and 1880 p. m.
AT 8 p. m. the out of town physi-
clans Will be entertained at luncheon
by the members of the Shawnee Coun-
ty Medical society. About eighty MEM
bers are expected. The luncheon will
be at the Throop
The programme follows:
Some Observations on Foods-Dr.
T. w. Peers. Topeka.
Infant Feeding-Dr. W. r. Breed
ing, Marysville.
Report of Case of Threatened Abor-
tion-Dr. B. K. Kilbourne, Emmett
Paper-Dr. W. F. Bowen. Topeka.
Paper-Dr. c. B. Stemen, Kansas
Hernia-Dr. S. Murdoch, Jr.. sa-
Authority-Dr E. T. Shelly. Atch-
Antointoxications- c. D. Lloyd,
Leavenworth.
The Efficiency of the Newer Silver
Salts in the Treatment of Purulent
Opthalmia-Dr. Jas. w. May, Kansas
City.
Surgical Judgment-Dr. G., w.
Jones, Lawrence
Nasal Accessory Sinuses-Dr. H. L..
Alkire. Topeka.
Hydrothera phy-Dr E. Smith,
Lawrence.
The Development. Treatment and
Prognosis of tuberculosis of the
Testicle-Dr. Hugh Wilkerson, Kan
sas City.
Pure Food-Dr. E. H. S. Bailey,
Lawrence.
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least 7OPEkAN0IE|
E&nA
a1agk:a@ @ad :as @

Mr.. l.. D. Eversole is very seriously
i'll at Stormont hospital.
Wesley Miller of East Hill left to-
day on a business trip to Texas
Mr.. and Mrs. John Craig of Alma,
Kansas, are visiting their daughter
and family, Mrs. Water Platz of 2O7
Kline street.
Rev. F. E. Mallory left yesterday for
Norfolk, Va, to attend the national
of the world
Mrs. j. r. Stitt of 232 Chandler
street left this morning for Kansas
City, where she will visit with relatives
until Saturday.
= Mrs. John>McGaffin returned to her
home in Emporia after a short visit
with her mother, Mrs. Belle Bates of
312 Monroe street.
J. &C. Miller died at his home on
Jefferson street yesterday from
paralysis. The funeral was held this
afternoon at 8 O'Clock! r
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Sulzen. and son
Francis spent last week the guests of
Mrs. Sulzen's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N
Luse of 313 Chandler street.
Inverted lights So cts. All gas light
goods at reduced prices.
H. NJ. CROSS CYCLE CO.,
so Kansas Avenue.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Third
Christian church will hold an all day
meeting at the church. full attend
ance is desired as there is important
business to attend to.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Clarke have
returned from Lawrence, where they
have been visiting relatives. They
will spend a few days the guests of
their cousin. Mrs. Hastings, before
they return to their home in Okla
homa.
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COMING FROM OUT OF TOWN.
Good Demand for Jacoby and ABBOTT
Concert Tickets.

The concert to be given in this city
by Mrs. Jacoby and her splendid COM
pany at the Auditorium Friday, Octo-
Der Is, promises to be the most delight
full of the seasons offerings. The per-
sonnet of the quartet is a guarantee of
this. Mrs. Jacoby herself is a grand
opera star who has been received with
enthusiasm in all the greet musical
centers of America, and her success in
concert is quite equal to her operate
triumphs. The advance sale already in
sures a large house if no more tickets
are sold. AS there are a thousand more
good seats and interest in the event is
continually increasing, the indications
are that the house will be packed.
Inquiries from out-of-town indicates
that large number of musical people
from adjoining towns will take advan-
tage Of the 2-cent railroad fare to hear
this concert and the Bessie ABBOTT con-
cert to follow the next day. The 2-cent
rate makes the cost the same as it was
when a rate of a fare and third was
made for the round trip.
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enjoy a trip to the country. For days
the members of the grange have been
hard at work to make their fair a sue
cess and from present indications 1t
can be nothing else. Almost every
business firm on the North side will
be represented at this fair. Among
the people who went out this morning
with their exhibits were A. F. Grear,
G. r. Gladfelter and Miss Lena Holm
store, who will have a booth there in
charge of Miss Hohnbaum; J. G.
Snedicker of the Cash Mercantile Co.,
rugs and knitted articles, George
Groshong, cream separator; 0. A.
Pratt of Pratt Bros, double riding
cultivator; Mr.. LaHew, wire fence; G.
w. Nau, hand painted china and water
color sketches and other paintings.
From the grange members there will
be the following exhibits: Horses and
colts, c.. d. Shields, 7. B. Pitcher, o. F.
Evans and o. G. Arnold. Poland
China hogs. w. L. Read. T. B. Pitcher
and ]. M. Pollom. Mules. H. K. Evans
and J. W. Pence. Sheep, Joshua
Browning Cattle, NJ Cole. Poultry,
Mrs j. NJ. Pollom, Mrs. o. F. Whitney,
Mrs. John Stevens, Mrs. H. K. Evans,
Miss Edna Arnold, Mrs. F. p. Rude.
Mrs: A. P. Chacey and Mrs. A. G.
MERIT. Vegetables, f. P. Rude &
Son, o. F. Whitney & Son, c. J. Nau-
man and H. J. Monroe. Corn and 9TH
Many of the merchants of the North
side have offered prizes for the diff
ferent products and stock exhibited,
while the Shawnee State bank has Of
fered a prize for the largest ear of
corn to be exhibited.
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WHOLE TRAIN BURNED.
Two Tramps Killed and a Fireman Is
Missing.

Seattle, Wash, Oct. S.-Two tramps
were killed, Fireman Gilbert Ernst of
Tacoma is missing and believed to be
dead, Engineer F. N Meyers of San
Francisco and Brakeman Thomas are
at Hot Springs seriously injured as
result of the wreck near Weston on
the main line of the Northern Pacific
last evening at O'Clock. The train
was an extra freight westbound. con-
sisting of thirty cars of hay, grain and
live stock, a caboose and an engine.
The entire train was destroyed, the
wreckage catching fire soon after the
Smashup.
Trainmen declare that the failure
of the air brakes on a heavy grade
caused the wreck
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PROMPT DENIAL.
Has No Intention of Sending
Over q Fleet.

Berlin, Oct. S.-A semi-officiaI de-
NAL was published by the Lokaf
Anziger today of the statement made
in a Washington dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail to the effect that Ger
many intended to send a fleet, under
Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, to
visit the Atlantic ports of the United
States when the American battleship
fleet sails for the Pacific as a mark
of friendship for America.
The report is defined by the Lokal
Anziger as being IAN invention de-
signed to cause a hostile feeling
a gainst Germany on the part Of other
countries.
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NEGRO BAPTISTS MEET.
State Convention Opens at Salina With
Noted Speakers.

Salina, Kan. Oct. S.-The state con-
vention of the negro Baptists opens in
Salira today. The convention will be
in session for six days and it is expected
that it will be attended by $50 minis
tiers and delegates from different towns
in the state.
The convention will be held in the St.
Johns Baptist church.
Some of the best negro preachers in
the state will be here during the con-
vention. 1t is also said that DR.. Paris
of Louisville, KY, one of the best known
negro preachers in the United States,
will be here for a part of the conven-
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THE FIRST TWO CENT TICKET.
a Winfield Men Claims to Be the
Pioneer Purchaser

Winfield, Kan, Oct. S.-The Courier
says:
/. c. Sanders of this city claims the
distinction of purchasing the first regu-
lar two-cent rate ticket sold in Kansas
under the new regulation, and fixes the
time at half a minute after II O'Clock
the morning of Saturday. October 3.
This was at Baxter Springs, Kansas,
from which place he arrived home Sat
urday afternoon. BY an accident he re-
mains in possession of the ticket. which
he will keep as a souvenir. A freight
train off the track east of Beaumont
delayed his train so that he missed the
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NJ. Eye will organize another class in
the planning mill tomorrow.
Ben Butler a switchman in the local
yards was severely injured while at
work Sunday morning and narrowly
escaped death. He was riding on top
of a box car when he was struck in the
head by the viadUct at Second street
and was knocked down on the car I'M
conscious. His injuries were not known
until the train reached the Rock Island
depot when he regained consciousness
and signalle1 the train to stop.
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Hard Times i'm Kansas.

The old days of grasshoppers and drouth
are almost forgotten in the prosperous
CodeIl, Earl Shamburg, has not yet for
gotten a hard time he encountered. He
saws: II was worn out and discouraged
nv coughing night and day, and could find
no relief till I tried DR.. Kings New Dis
covery 1t took less than one bottle to
reliable cough and cold remedy and lung
and throat healer ever discovered. Guar
anteed by all druggists. SOC and 800. Trial
hottie
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SOS to California

oregon. Washington. via Union Pacific.
every day, September L to October 81.
1907 One-way colonist rates are in eff
feet to San Francisco, Los Angeles and
many, other California points.
TO Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and
many other Oregon and Washington
points Inquire of ]. c. Fulton. depot
agent; F. A. Lewis. city ticket agent.