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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-03
||, Excursions

Los Angeles. San Francisco, and
many other California points S25. 90.
Tickets on sale March, April, SepteTn-
Der and October.
Portland. Seattle, Tacoma and other
points in the Northwest, SIS. o. Tick
cts on sale March, April, September
and October.
HomeseeEers' Excursions tickets on
sale first and third Tuesdays. Rate in
many cases less than one fare and limit
twenty-one and thirty days, according
to destination
Winter Tourist tickets on sale daily
Very low rate. Limit June LIST.
For further particulars apply to
T. L. KING, c. p. & 7. A.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-03
)SOcietY|

The first Of the Easter dances and
one of the most important and fashion
able events OF the season will be the
reception and dance to be given tonight
at Steinberg's by Mr. and Mrs William
Emil DrechSeL The reception hours
are from 7:3o to O'Clock Dancing af-
ter 9. A number Of out Of town guests
are here for the occasion 10 which local
society circles have been looking for
ward with happy anticipations for
weeks Mr.. and Mrs Drechser will be
assisted by Mrs George Parkhurst. Mrs.
Robt- Carver. Mrs. Reid Alexander,
Mrs Frank p. MacLeunan, Mrs. J. C.
Mohler, Mrs. Don Mulvane, Mrs. Eu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-03
APPRAISED MERCHANDISE.
Greatest Amount Passed In March in
Gotham Ports History.

New York April 3.-That the month
just ended is the greatest recorded. n
the history of appraised mercha ndIse at
this port is the statement made by Col.
e. 8 Fowler. praiser of the port,
who has made public figures showing
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Boiled. A Duty On Them.

New Workers who have the boiled
plover-egg habit at 81 the portion
will have to abate it until the local
customs examiners, the United States
Department of Agriculture and the
United States Treasury Department
decide when plover eggs are game
bird eggs and when just plain food.
The customs authorities have held
up a big consignment of boiled plover
eggs which Wells, Fargo & Co., i'm
ported from England for Fifth Ave
nue. restaurant keeper. They con-
tend that the eggs, being cooked, are
not entitled to free entry as game
birds eggs "for purposes of propa-
CATION" They classify them as food
and would levy tax of five cents
dozen So the restaurant-keeper has
appealed to the powers at Washing
ton.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The King of Benin wears q can
made of coral beads, with a tassel
Of large beads at one side.
Ordinary sheep dip is now being
extensively used for the destruction
of locusts in South Africa.
One hundred oil wells have been
sunk on Manitoulin Island. Lake
Huron, at cost of about $500 each.
The average life of a horse is 90
years, but these animals have been
known to work in harness up to
As years.
New York City consumes 1880
600 pounds Of cotton each year.
The sand of Sahara averages 20
feet in depth, but in some places il
has been found 800 feet below the
surface.
The capital represented by Great
Britain's cotton trade is $2,OOO,OOO.-
600 year, and the profits $780,
100000 year.
According to information sent by
Consul Fl. A. Conant, of Windsor,
the number of cooperative cheese
factoriea in Ontario Province alone
increased by 1900 during the past
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
A Woman's Back

Has many aches and pains caused by
weaknesses and falling, or other displace-
ment, OF the pelvic organs. Other symp-
toms of female weakness are frequent
headache, dizziness, imaginary specks or
dark spots floating before the eyes, gnaw-
ing sensation in stomach, dragging or
bearing down in lower abdominal or pelvic
region, disagreeable drains from pelvic
organs, faint spells with general weakness.
III any considerable number Of the above
symptoms are present there Is no remedy
that WIN give quicker relief or a more per-
ma4ent che than DR.. Pierce's Favorite
PreSCtSAtSoR>t has record OF over forty
gears Of cureA It Is the most potent
!1Ylgorating tonic and -strengthenLng mex
vine Known 70 medic science: 1t Is made
Of the glyceric extracts OF native medici-
nal roots found i'm our forests and con-
tains not drop of alcohol or harmful, or
habit-forming drugs. Its ingredients are
all printed on the bottle-wrapper and at
tested under oath as correct.
Every ingredient entering into va
vOrite Prescription has the written en-
dOrSement OF the most eminent medical
writers of all the several schools of prac-
tice-more valuable than any amount Of
nOn-prOfeSsional ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
latter are not lacking, having been con-
tributed voluntarily by grateful patients
in numbers to exceed the endorsements
given TO any other medicine extant for
the cure of wOman's ills.
You cannot afford to accept any medicine
OF unknown composition as a substitute
for this well proven remedy OF KNOWN
COMPOSITION, even though the dealer may
make a little more profit thereby. Your
interest in regaining health is paramount
o. IL Gel -, -. 4
insult to your intelligence for him to try
to palm off upon you substitute. You
know what you want and it is his busi-
ness to supply the article called for.
DR.. Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets are the
original "Little Liver Pills " first put Up
by old DR.. Pierce over forty years ago,
much initiated but never equaled. Little
sugar-coated granules-easy to. take as
candy.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
Live Stock.

ChicagO - Market STEADY
to 1Oc. lower; common to prime
steers, 81 a $50; cows, 1925 "a s.;
heifers, SO a $50; bulls, $40 "a
AGO; calves, $2.75@5.75; stockers
and feeders, $3@5.25.
Hogs - Market a 1Oc lower;
choice to prime heavy, $6.5O@6.55;
Medium to good heavy, $6.45m
CAT "; butcher weights, $6.5O@
6.55; good to prime mixed, $6.45@
$50; packing. $3.50 "a Gas; pigs.
$1,000 GAO; bulk of sales, $6.45@
$50.
Kansas City, -Cattle-Market
steady. Choice export and dressed
beef steers, $3.50 a 625; fair to
good, $4.75 O. $50; Western fed
steers, $4.5O@5.75; stockers and
feeders, 1915 @525; south ern
steers, $4,000 $50; Southern COWS.
1925 a 4.40; native COWS, $4,000
$500; native heifers, $3.5O@5.25:
bulls, $2.75 a 4.25; calves, $3.50
$50.
Pittsburg. Pa. - Cattle = Market
steady; choice, 5000 6.10; prime.
$500 5.85.
Sheep-Market slow; prime weth-
ers. $685. a 6; culls and common.
$3.50 a 4; lambs, So a. TAO; veal
calves, $6@6.5O.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
Sunflower And The Sun.

"The sunflower," said a naturalist
els the most deceitful Of all plants
for it has fooled six nations.
six nations believe that the sun
flower turns toward the sun, and so
thoroughly are they deluded they call
it by name which bears witness to
their error.
Thus the French call the sunflow-
er tournesol. The Spanish call 1t
girasol. The Italians call 1t girasole.
The Hungarians call it naptaforgo.
Each of these words means turn to
the SUM- The English and Ameri-
cans don't go quite that far in admit
ting themselves to be the plants
dupes. They only call it sunfiower.
They mean by that name, though,
quite as much as the other names i'm
ply. The belief is general among
six nations that the sunfower turns
with the sun and always faces the
luminary.
"As a matter Of fact, there is only
one flower that turns or keeps with
the sun, namely the sun spurge."-
Louisville Courier Journal.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Everything comes to the man who
pays spot cash.
Clothes do not make the man
Or the chorus girl.
Cupid sometimes CRAFTS a peach
on an old shrub.
One of the things you can't buy on
credit is experience.
Other peoples happiness gives a
pessimist headache.
Lots OF folks do a thing twice in
order to get it done once.
How the henpecked man does crow
When he is away from home,
Many girl who has mischief in
1er eye has goodness in her heart.
It's easy to laugh at misfortune
when it visits the other fellow.
Success spells failure for some and
failure spells success for others.
When the lid is on tight some men
have an excuse for being sober.
A fool may know when to quit, but
a wise man knows when not to be-
gin.
MaIrlmony is kind OF dynamite
used to explode the theories of bach
elors.
Were it impossible to speak any,
thing but the truth we would have
few friends.
1t sometimes happens that a wise
man has occasion to marvel at his
Ignorance.
Every hatchet-faced gossip is in
her glory when it comes to welding
a hammer.
After choosing his own boss many
man is dissatisfied-so it's him for
the divorce court.
Oyster stews served in some res
taurants prove that the proprietors
belong to society for. the prevention
of cruelty to bivalves.-From 'cPoint-
ed Paragraphs" in the Chicago News.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
weekly Review of Trade and Latest
Market Reports.

r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
OF Trade says:
Spring retail trade is backward
because OF the unusually late season,
and tardy distribution of merchan-
disc is also causing complaint of de-
lay In mercantile collection, but
there is confidence that most OF the
postponed business will be made up
when conditions become normal.
Dealers purchased freely from manu-
facturers in anticipation of a rec
ord-breaking season, and deliveries
are still coming from the mills and
factories, shipments being facilitated
by improved traffic conditions. Manu-
facturers are active in all leading
industries, most plants being operat-
ed full time, and the outlook in the
steel business could hardly be bright
er. Projected building operations
promise a good demand for all ma
terials, but numerous small labor
disputes retard activity in this de-
partment. All controversies over
wages and hours are not extensive
or alarming.
only favorable reports are receiv-
ed from the iron and steel industry,
new business coming to the mills as
rapidly as orders are filled, the few
producers are able to take advantage
of premiums offered for prompt de-
livery. Ore has begun to move freely
on the lakes. Arrangements have
been made for a record year, many
new vessels enlarging the carryi-
capacity"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09

P@ NAY FIFTY IL


u Between the day of MY entrance
into the service, fifty years ago. and
the present nowhere is change more
notable than in the national attitude
toward the navy and the comprehen-
sion of its Office. Then the navy was
accepted without much question as
part or the necessary lumber which
every adequately organized maritime
state carried, along with the rest of
a national establishment. or what
use III was, or might be. few cared
much TO inquire. There was not suf-
hcient interest even to disnute the
necessity of its existence: although
IL is true. as late as 1875 an old-time
Jenersonian Democrat repeated to me
with conviction the masters dictum
that the navy was a useless append
age-a statement which the work of
the War of Secession, as well on the
Confederate as on the Union side.
might seem to have refuted sufficient
ly and with abundant illustration. To
such doubters before the war there
was always ready the routine reply
that navy protected commerce; and
American shipping, then the second
in the world, literally whitened every
sea with its snowy sails. In my first
long voyage, in 1859, from Philadel-
phla to Brazil, it was no rare occur
renee to be becalmed in the doldrums
In company with two or three Of these
beautiful semi-clipper vessels. their
low black bulls contrasting wildly
with the tall pyramids of dazzling
VvlNf oh
distinctive mark at that time of
American merchant shipping. They
0eeded no protection then, and none
toresaw that within a decade, by the
operations of few small steam cruis-
srs, they would be swept from the
seas, never to return. Everything
was taken for granted, and not least
that war was barbarism of the past.
From 1915 to 1850, the lifetime of a
generation, international peace had
prevailed substantially unbroken.
despite numerous revolutionary
movements internal to the States
concerned, and it had been lightly
assumed that these conditions would
thenceforth continue, crowned as they
had been by the great sacrament of
peace, when the nations for the first
time gathered under a common roof
the fruits of their several industries
In the Worlds Exposition of 1851.
The shadows of disunion were indeed
gathering over our own land, but for
the most of us they carried with them
no fear of war.
The political condition and balance
OF the world now is very different
from that OF the period of which I
have been writing. Of this universal
change and displacement the most
significant factor-at least in our
Western civilization-has been the
establishment of the German Empire.
with its ensuing commercial, mari
time and naval development. To it
certainly we owe the military impulse
which has been transmitted every
where to the forces of sea and land
an impulse for which, in my judg-
ment, too great gratitude cannot be
felt. 1t has braced and organized
Western civilization for an ordeal as
yet dimly perceived arper's Mag
Rziue
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
A New Revenue Cutter.

A new revenue cutter is under
process of design at Washington
whose main duty shall be to seek and
destroy derelicts upon the Atlantic
coast. This will fill long-felt need,
and Will render more SEE the paths
Of ocean commerce. partf slarly those
in the vicinity Of Cape Hatteras,
where many of these craftFh have been
abandoned by virtue of stress of
weather. This vessel, says Interna.
tional Marine Engineering, will be
provided with all necessary appli-
ances for disrupting these vessels by
means of dynamite or guncotton, and
will be continually employed in this
service.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
Wholesale Markets

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and I'M
changed; receipts. S,239 barrels; ex-
ports, 500 barrels.
Wheat - Strong; spot, contract,
S2A 0S23s; No. 2 red. Western, SO
@S3M; April, S2A 0S2S; May,
S2H a S2A; July. S3A a S3 "a;
steamer, No. red, 1878 OFT; re-
ceipts, 1927 bushels; exports, 49,
900 bushels; Southern, on grade, n
0S2A.
Strong; spot, mixed, 561s
@56A; No. white, 57B a 81 a;
April 56M @56H; May, 56A a
569s; July, 56% @56B; Stephen
Der, SIX; steamer, mixed, So "a a
53%; receipts, 71,O69 bushels; ex-
ports, 115,714 bushels; Southern,
white, SIS @5S; Southern, yellow,
SAN a 5611.
Oats-Qulet; No. 2 white, AS u a
40; No. white, 47@4S; No. 2 mix
ed, 461s q Al; receipts, 1O,449 bush
els.
Rye-Quiet; No. Western, do
nestle, rs @76; choice, so; receipts,
2,49S bushels.
Butter - Firm and unchanged;
fancy imitation ESQ 30; fancy cream
cry, 35 a SO; fancy ladle, % a "a;
store packed, ~ a. ".
Eggs-Steady and unchanged, at
t6@1655.
Cheese-Active and strong; large,
10; medium, 15A @15h; small.
15H @1515.
New York-Wheat-- Receipts, a.
900 bushels; exports, 21,466 bushels.
Spot firm; No. red, sc elevator:
No. red, 81 Z. o. b. .afloat; No. l
igation Z. o. b. afloat; No. hard
winter, 90A opening navigation f.
o. b. afloat.
Corn-Receipts. 155,S75 bushels;
exports, 207, 425 bushels. Spot firm
er; No. 2, 5S elevator and 56K +.
o. b. afioat; No. white, 571h and
No. yellow, 561S f. o. b. ahoat.
Oats - Receipts, 100000. Spot
market steady. Mixed, &c to 80
pounds, ~; natural white, so to
B3 pounds, 4Sh a. soy; clipped
white, Sc to 40 pounds, 49H@54.
Poultry-Alive quiet; chickens,
OIL; fowls. 1914; turkeys. IL;
dressed slow and unchanged.
Cabbages Firm; South Carolina,
Eat Dutch, per crate. 2.25 a $50;
Danish seed. per ton, 1O.OO01S.OO.
Philadelphia. - Wheat quiet but
steady; contract grade, April, 79A
% soc. Corn firm and y c. higher;
April, 53@53 nc. Oats quiet but
steady; No. 2 white, natural, 4SB
@49c.
Eggs firm and in good demand;
Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts,
free cases. 1Sc. at mark; Pennsylva-
MIA and other nearby current receipts
in returnable cases, IT, at mark;
Western firsts, free cases, Is, at
mark.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09

julius Charles Henry Sauerbier OF
420 Plane Street, Newark, who ex-
poets to be ordained to the Protes-
tant Episcopal ministry about the
middle of this month, will appear
in the District Court, Newark, Sat
urday and ask permission to have
his name changed. Sauerbier is
student at the New York Theological
Seminary. He wants to be known
as Sauber.
A short time ago Sauerbier was
introduced to a young woman at a
social gathering, according to story
told in Newark, and the young woman
blushingly turned to the introducer
end exclaimed:
Now, please stop joking; what is
his right name?"
Since then Mr.. Sauerbier has been
thinking over the change more SER
iously and at last he applied to w.
Eugene Turton, a lawyer, for help.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
Ancient Grammar.

The grammar longest in use in
England was that of William Lily,
first published in 1913. This gram
mar passed through more editions
than any textbook of the kind and
was in use in st. Paul's School, Lon
don, up to 40 years ago. The pre-
face to the first edition was written
by Cardinal Wolsey; the English
rudiments by Dean Colet; the Latin
syntax chiefly by Erasmus; the re-
mainder by Lily, the book being then
the Joint production of four of the
greatest scholars of the age.
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MORE BOXES OF GOLD
And Many Greenbacks.

S25 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks
Will be sent to persons who write the
most interesting and truthful letters
OF experience on the following topics:
l. How have you been affected by
coffee drinking and by changing from
coffee to Postum?
2. Give name and account OF one
or more coffee drinkers who have
been hurt by it and have been in
duced to quit and use Postum.
8. Do you know any one who has
been driven away from Postum be-
cause it came to the table weak and
characterless at the first trial?
4. Did you set such a person right
regarding the easy way to make it
clear, black and with a snappy, rich
taste?
5. Have you ever found a better
way to make it than to use four heap
Ing teaspoonfuls to the pint of water,
let stand on stove until real boiling
begins, and beginning at that time
when actual boiling starts, boil full
10 minutes more to extract the flavor
and food value. "a piece of butter
the size of pea will prevent boiling
over). This contest is confined to
those who have used Postum prior
to the date of this advertisement.
Be honest and truthful, don't write
poetry or fanciful letters, just plain,
truthful statements.
Contest will close June LIST. 1907.
and no letters received after that
date will be admitted. Examinations
OF letters will be made by three
judges, not members of the Postum
Cereal Co., Ltd. Their decisions will
be fair and final, and a neat little box
containing $40 gold piece sent to
each of the five writer's of the most
interesting letters, a box containing
IS gold piece to each of the 20 next
best, 81 greenback to each of the
100 next best, and a 81 greenback to
each Of the 200 next best, making
cash prizes distributed to 325 per-
sons
Every friend of Postum is urged to
write, and each letter will be held in
high esteem by the company, as an
evidence of such friendship, while
the little boxes Of gold and envelopes
of money will reach many modest
writer's whose plain and sensible let
ters contain the facts desired, al
though the sender may have but
small faith in winning at the time of
writing.
Talk this subject over with your
friends and see how many among
you can win prizes. It is a good,
honest competition and in the best
kind OF cause. and costs the COM
petitors absolutely nothing.
Address your letter 10 the Postum
Cereal Co.. Ltd. Battle Creek. Mich,
writing your own name and address
s,1oar:v
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
Surprised by Negro Wedding.

A negro wedding was held the
other night in Holy Trinity Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, the largest
and most prominent in Harlem. 1t
was that of Albert Eldridge, a clerk
in the postoffce, and Anna Wanser.
Few of the white members of the
congregation, it is said, knew of the
event The church was we'll filled
with colored people, the wife and
daughter of the rector, Rev. Harry
Pierce Nichols, being the only white
people present. A number of negroes
are regular attendants at services in
the church, and baptisms of negro
children are frequent occurrences.
The rector is a member of one of
the educational boards, which works
among the Southern negroes.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09
Queer Provisions OF A VIII.

Louis C. Burns, in his will. filed
for probate yesterday, directed that
his body be cremated and that his
wife, Minnie e. Bruins, of Lexington
Avenue, keep his ashes, unless she
marries again, when they shall be
thrown to the winds. The clause
in the will relating to the matter is
as follows: Il direct that my body
be cremated and the ashes be kept
by my wife, and should she marry
again / direct that my wife shall see
that my ashes are thrown to the four
winds from some high point of van
tage. st: Louis Republic.
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Wrong Diagnosis.

King George III had just been in
formed that his American colonies
had rebelled.
I'll not believe it," he exclaimed,
Its nothing but brain storm of a
unusuaAly wide area
Acting on this superstition, he sedt
over fdw regiments of experts, sonie
of whom he picked up in German
and the failu-e of the treatment thty
s>0lied to re ,22sisnts is now a mat
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suHragIst In EngIand.

IaSdie had a trying expert
Iother evening. Addressing
Is mainly attended by the
failedSto get a hearing
airman said: Gentle
FIN listen to Mr.. Hardie
II be happy to answer
! ions you may put to him
of his speech"
81 he honorable member had
80 seat a question written
pet of notepaper was sent
ardie, and passed by him
the chairman, who read
Ig-Very red in the face.
T." roared a dozen men,
lcnairman at last obeyed.
7tion was, "Why do they
} Gibson girl?" 1t finished
sn g.-OnlOoker.
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'be Same Class.

Sabee, the Harvard
Mined quantity one
on his ethnolo-
&D among the In
FyWaters of the ANA
lighting way in which
looks on science.
any," said DR.. Fara-
ice get her due. In
She is so hardly used,
the deduction of the
3per comes to mind.
upper, noticing a place
had been dug up, exam
OF and then said calmly,
.RIAbrushed the dust from
have been done either
or a botanist. -
&Star.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09

I could not do homework, and for
two years did not get out of the
house. The kidney secretions were
irregular, and doctors were not help
ing me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought
me quick relief. and finally cured me.
They saved my life"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a COX.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09

Argo Red Salmon is packed by The
Alaska Packers Association, the larg-
est salmon canning firm in the world.
They pack over 100000 cans
year. At all grocers.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09

from kidney trot
bles. My back paip
me terribly. Envy
turn or move ca6sed
sharp, sh ooting
pains. My eyesight
was poor, dark spots
appeared before me,
and ! had dizzy
spells. For ten years
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-09

Argo Red Salmon can be prepared
In nearly a hundred different ways.
1t is one of the most nutritious and
healthful foods sold. At all grocers.