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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
REV. LOYAL MADDEN TO LEAVE.
Popular West Side Pastor Will Go to
Another Field.

The Potwin Presbyterian church is
going to lose it's pastor, Rev. Loyal w.
Madden.
For the past year and a half the
Potwin Presbyterian church, though a
small suburban church, has We'd with
some of the large downtown churches
for popularity on account of the many
attractive services arranged upon the
promptings of the pastor.
The evening services especially have
drawn large crowds. During the sum-
mer evenings, when the heat was
driving away the usual attendance
from the larger churches, the Potwin
Presbyterian was attracting large
crowds with its open air services on
the beautiful lawn surrounding the
church building. Stereopticon lectures
with especially good musical offerings
have been featured together with SER
mons by prominent laymen of the city.
The Rev. Loyal Madden has accept
ed a call to the pastorate of the Liber-
ty Street Presbyterian church at Inde-
pendence, Mo-, and will assume his
duties in that city on November l.
Rev. Mr.. Madden was graduated
from the Mccormick seminary at Chi
cago, and previously to that had at
tended Lincoln university or Lincoln
ILL.,, and the Missouri Valley university
at Marshall, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
AT THE THEATERS.

AS he always did Lew Dockstader
comes along this season with something
positively new He never rests until
he has found o suitably devised vehicle
FOR his fuHnyfstns and no eecurrenc :
thai fnpresses itself upon the public
unird- is allowed to go unnoticed. The
minstrel reaches out and grabs II,
weaves 1t into hs songs or sayings AMI
the result Is that UP tC date people al
ways wonder what he is going to do
next.
Mr. Dockstader will be seen at the
Grand opera house tonight.
Before and After appears at the
Grand Saturday matinee and evening
oh. come and have q Sunny Jim pow
der" That has come to be one of the
popular salutations along Broadway,
because fashions in popular salutations
grow rapidly on the Broad White Way.
and the source Of this amusing greeting
is Before and After" the laughter
play from the pen of Leo Ditrichsteiu,
the distinguished actor-dramatist, who
after producing % plays in thirteen
years, on Broadway, has scored the
greatest hit of his career in this bright
farce New York applauded it for three
hundred performances. Berlin for 500
performances and London for $50 nights
Managers Wagenhals & Kemper have
sent it on a tour with Mr.. DitrichStein
at the head of the cast from the Astor
theater, and with the scenic effects that
distinguish the production in New
York. In this farce the brilliant au-
thor of Are You a Mason" 'Vivian's
Papas,'' All on Account of Eliza and
other offerings of similar fame has its
hilarity producing motier in the admin
istration of the Sunny JIM Powder,
in the fiction of the play, marvellous
discovery in therapeutics, which in
stantly converts gloom into joy, Gre
ates the most bewildering complications
and establishes situations which simply
sweep the audience away in a whirl-
wind of laughter.
Just Out of College" the latest sue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
THE ARTTHMEITCs WRONG.
Why Emporia Teachers Couldn't Solve
the Problems

Emporia. Kan, Oct 25.-Com-
plants have been received by the
county superintendent, George Snoddy,
from several of the county schools that
the teachers can not solve the prob
lens in the new Meyers-Brooks arith-
metic, recently adopted by the Kansas
textbook commission. The boards
have asked that authority be given to
them to discharge the teachers be-
cause of incompetency.
The publishing company which
printed these books sent out word last
week that many of the answers in the
textbooks were wrong. They gave as
an excuse that the books were printed
in such a hurry that the work was not
done carefully. superintendent Snoddy
has sent out postal cards explaining
the situation and the teachers prob
ably will retain their jobs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
PROBE FOR EXPRESS BUSINESS
Commerce Commission VIII Begin In
vestigation at Omaha.

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 25-Special Ex-
aminer G. N Brown of the interstate
commerce commission is in Omaha
preparing to take testimony in the in
Vestigation into the business methods
of the express companies which be-
gins in Omaha Monday.
The hearing is the outcome of a
complaint filed with the interstate
commerce commission by Secretary
Branch of the Western Fruit Jobbers'
association, alleging that the express
companies engage in buying and sell
ing fruit and other commodities in
competition with fruit jobbers.
The coming hearing will be the first
one in the country at which testimony
will have been taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
Iz3II'S,'1:2:lS

street, and merchants and statesmen
alike were at the revival meeting.
Howard E. Taylor, one of the evan
gelists and formerly engaged in busi-
ness in Philadelphia, addressed the
meeting. His subject was christianity
and Business and he talked mainly
along the line that man can do BUSH
ness according to modern methods and
still be a consistent Christian. The tent
was well filed, almost entirely with
men. Last night the chief evangelist,
W. E. Biederwof preached to a
crowded tent on Business, Politics and
Religion"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
LAWRENCE CLOSES SHOP.
The Whole Town Quits Business and
Attends the Big Revival.

Lawrence, Kan, Oct. 25.-All Law
renee business houses, with a very few
exceptions, shut up shop Thursday and
went to church.
The day was Merchants day. at the
revival and a committee of ministers
canvassed the town getting signatures
to an agreement for general closing.
The result was that from 2:30 until
o'clock one could not buy paper of
pins or a lead pencil on the main
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
TO ELECT A TRUSTEE.
Action in the Uncle sam Oil Hearing
Is Drawing to a Close.

Kansas City, Kan, Oct. 25.-Z. T.
Hazen. special master in the Uncle
Sam Oil COMPANY bankruptcy pro-
ceedings, late Thursday passed on the
last of the filed claims against the
company. The hearing was then adj
journed until today, when a meeting
of the legal creditors will be held. The
creditors will elect a trustee of the
company at this meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25

Austrian Emperor Is Convalescing.
Vienna, Oct. 25.-The physicians in
attendance on Emperor Francis Jo-
seph today decided not to issue any
further bulletins as they consider that
his convalescence is progressing salts
factOrilY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25

Just Out of College" the latest sue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25

Arthur c. Aiston's AT the Old Cross
Reads company which is enjoying the
seventh annual tour, will be seen here
at the Grand opera house on Monday
evening. 1t includes many of the orig
inal members who were prominent in
the initial performances on Broadway
and several others of equal note.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-25

cess of the famous author of 1.-The Col
lege Widow will be seen at the Grand
Sunday matinee and night The COM
edy atmosphere of the piece is great
There is something doing all the time
and inzthe matter of characters there. is
a string Of types that remind one of
''Bird Center at its best
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-11
CLEYELAND COMING.

In these lively days United States city has to step lively in order to be Great, or Greater. Greater New York continues to be not only Greater, but Greatest, and 1t doesn't now look as if Chicago could gain much on her. Pittsburg is a great city, but some sur prising figures concerning the great ness of Cleveland are given. Cleveland has now 1,617 manufacturing estab- lishments, against Pittsburg's 1,177, with relative capital of $156, 6,5O9,252 to $2O2, 424, ,24O; wage earners, 64,O95 to 56,- 229; value of products, SIP, 115,101 to $165, ,42S, ,SS1. Cleveland's percentage of increase of capital in manufactures in five years has been 6S,S, to Pittsburgs 26.1, and Cleveland's percentage of in crease in value of products S6.4 to Pittsburg's O.3
 Cleveland certainly seems to be com ing, and coming fast. Ohio is large producer of men and things.
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SKETCH DEACON ERODE.
The Original of Dr. Jekyll and
 MT. Hyde.

The Original of Dr. Jekyll and
 MT. Hyde.
 Deacon Brodie, whose singular story is said to have inspired Stevenson with the immortal tale of Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde, was substantial wright and cabinet maker in the Lawnmarket of Edinburgh. He was a Burgess and Guild Brother of his native town, and so high did he stand in the estima- tion of his fellow craftsmen that for four years they elected him a mem- Der of the Town Council as Deacon of the Incorporation of Wrlghts.
 Success in public life helped the Deacon in his business as wright, and few men appeared to have less ground to quarrel with the conven- tlanal conception of meum and tuum. Nevertheless, the Deacon was always in want of money. He was an invet- crate gamester, a gay and much-in- volved bachelor, and he had a passion for the fashionable sport of cock fighting All this brought the respect ed burgess into bad company, parti- cularly at a certain disreptable tav- ern in the Fleshmarket Close frequen- ted by sharpers. In 1788 Brodie was even accused of himself using loaded dice. The charge was very likely true, but it never came up for trial, for the Deacon meanwhile had been con- victed of a hanging matter.
 Brodie had, in fact for years been leading a double life. In the daytime he was an honest craftsman, but at night he exchanged his chisel for a Jimmy and a dark lantern.
 The Deacon was a humorist, and the situation doubtless appealed to him.
 The friend he had robbed overnight he would console with in the morning, and after some particularly ingenious burglary he would be the first in the Council Chamber to suggest offering a reward for discovering the perpetrator
 For twenty years this prince of cacksmen remained unsuspected, and he was only brought to book at last by the treachery of confederate.
 The Deacon was sentenced to be hanged-on the new drop gallows he had suggested himself to the City Fathers-and hanged he was though not without characteristic attempt cheat the gallows,
 A French quak pr. Peter Delgrav- CTS, so the story goes, came to him in prison and undertook to restore him to life after he had hung the usual time To the last his fellow-citizens loved to cherish belief that he had been re- suscitated and had escaped London Daily News.
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That S6.OOO.
Puck,

To Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 I can't believe that the $6,OOO turned over to the corporation counsel's office was to make up taxes due the city from a eonscience-stricken citizen, for if it were that office would not withhold who had evaded paying his taxes. It strikes me as more reasonable to be- lieve that Yale may have given this money, not because she owes any taxes, oh, my dear, no! but just out of the pure love and kind feeling she has for New Haven. But then again, it might be that this money is donation from the bunch of philanthropists that has been advocating an artificial lake, a park at Lighthouse Point, a new libra ny site increased salaries for every body, etc., to be used at Hartford to help grease these blessed things lit- tie.
 There is one thing certain-that the city has the money, and Yale and New Haven, both being large, kind and lib- eral, will agree that the money ought to be used for a large and learned pur- pose. I therefore propose that the in- come of this $6,000 be used to hire 0 teacher of bridge whist for the em- ployes of the City Hall. The game is very intellectual and inspiring, and its influence upon these city employees will be refining and will give them amuse- ment during their leisure moments.
 SIR WILLIAM FOXY.
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PERsIA's NEW SHAH.

Sane Minded Ruler Who Inherits
 an Empty Treasury.
 Mouzaffir-ed-Din, late Shah of Per- sia left behind him q son, new Parliament and a pretty thoroughly gutted country The Parliament and constitution that he granted may keep his name alive on one set of Persian lips; the debts he leaves will, in acordance with one of the more sardonic of natives laws, probably keep his memory alive much longer among good Persians.
 The late Shah was overfond of Paris and the company of King Leopold. Not an able administrator, not a moneymaker and kingdom builder when he stayed at home and paid at tention to business, he ruined his peo- pie with his expensive jaunts and costly cures he yainly applied to the long-drawn, fatal malady he contract ed in those jaunts. The Shah's inheri- tance is, therefore treasury emptied by profligate dissipation and a really
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-11

great empire brought to the verge of Reorganization by corrupt practice, greed, oppression and general mis- government. What this manner of government failed of in the disinter- grafton of the country was completed by a reckless, dilatory and improvid- ent policy abroad. For only eleven years the late Shah reigned, yet in that time he managed to bring his country into greater danger than she has stood in any former period of her modern history.
 The new Shah is reputed to be a young man-he Is only 94-in sym pathy with the belated reforms wrung by his subjects from his father. He has about him a sensible and patient people. They have high hopes in their new soverign, whom they think intelli- gent and well instructed. He has all ways behaved rather well, has never been to Europe, has not his father S taste for Paris, and yet, from rubbing up with brainy Europeans who have come his way, he has widened his hor- ion and imbibed ideas. He has always been in more or less direct touch with his subjects, and with all reverence for the ancient glories of his realm he has no antiquated notions about the sanctity of his person and his will. He has chosen to be made con- stltutional soverign and promised to be guided by the liberal Parliment
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SADLY IMPRESSIVE,

We are accustomed to think that dis ease and war are the great destroyers of human life, but there are others. An army of workers is killed and maimed every year in various industries in the United States. How appallingly numer- ous are these accidents is shown by figures gathered by the American In- stitute of Civil Service. For instance, 1t has been shown that there are S0,0O0 more persons accidentally killed in the United States in four years than fell in battle and died of wounds on both sides during the four years of the American civil war. In other words, in the same length of time 52 per cent. more per sons are killed in industrial occupa- tions than two great armies could de- stroy in an exceptionally bloody war. We are killing more than twice as many every year as perished by vio- lence in both the French and English armies during the Crimean war. It has been demonstrated that there are nearly $500 fatal accidents in New York city every year. The census for 1900 shows that during that year there. were reported 57,512 deaths by accident and violence in the United States, with an accompanying number of non-fatal casualties many times greater With. out increase of the annual rate report ed by the government in 1900 there will be 575,0O0 persons killed every 10 years, besides 5,0O0, ,OOO injured even if the pro- portion of accidents to the population should proye to be no greater in this country than in France. According to President Strong of the Institute this would be equivalent to massacring eve " inhapitant in three cities the size of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-11
PARTIAL.

An Irish paper complains that thou sands of foreign eggs are sold as Irish. The continent knows too we'll that Bri- tons will never submit to a foreign yolk,-London Opinion.
 "Mr. Borem is in the parlor, miss"
 Has he any flowers or candy with him?'
 NO, miss.'
 "Teu him I'm out. ."-Louisvilie Cour- ier-Journal.
 Do you object to the Increase of pay for your members of congress? 'No," answered Farmer Corntossel; i; mot unless he gets to thinkin' he ought to make more speeches sos to earn the money. y."-Washington Star.
 "John do you remember how you used to promise to lavish money on me?' Ugh"
 Could you lavish as much as ten cents? need few little things. "- Washington Herald
 Yes" said Miss Markley, The told me was the only girl he ever loved"
 70! come now!" exclaimed her friend.
 Well, he said I was the only girl with light hair and brown eyes and 8 mole on her left ear that he ever loved" Philadelphia Press.
 A prim maiden lady of Gloucester Met bull which ran after and
 toucester; Though she landed all right, She was near dead with fright, And the shock to her feelings it couceseter. Philadelphia Press. Dismal old lady--I don't suppose I shall ever want another pair, MT. Stib- bins
 Oleaginous elderly shopman--I 'ope you'll wear out a lot more shoe leather yet, mum.
 Dismal old lady-Ah, but I've one foot in the grave already. Oleaginous elderly shoplnan-Most appy to sell you a single boot, num- Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Captain Kidd was burying his treas ure.
 Its better than putting it in subur- ban lots," he ehuckled. "The money will always be there" Fully aware, too. that the authorities couldn't rob him of it by taxes and special assessments, he satisfied him. self that no meddlesome reporter was Inosing around in the neighborhood and betook himself again to the long, low, rakish craft that lay waiting for him two cables length from shore.-Chicago Tribune.
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FOR 4 LADY CHAPMAN.

What goes on in Paris is indicated by the fact that among the women who applied for a cabman's license at the police office in Paris the other day was a lady of aristocratic birth and educa- tion, Mime. Lughens, ex-Marchioness du Pin Jacquey de Riviere. She was be comingly dressed in a snuff-colored spotted dress and wore a green velvet hat with a spray of yellow flowers" " But the Marchioness explained to those around her that her husband, who had been a soloist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame des Victories, had lost his posi- ton owing to the separation act and was without work, and consequently as she had three children to keep she had determined to become a "cabman." At her trial she drove with firmness and grace as in the old days when she tool ed her dog cart in the Bois de Bou- logns, but she failed in harnessing the horse and was put back for another trial later on.
 Success to the noble and the sensible lady when she tries again. She knows what she can do well, and is trying to use her knowledge for the benefit of her family. If she becomes a "cabman" she ought to be generously patronized and will be.
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elected from his progressive people.
 In a word, we feel that Persia may be safetly trusted to Mohammed-All. He win play with it in a seemly man ner and not bore use with having to read endless news of how he is smash ing it about. We would respectfully recommend to Mohammeds notice that 1t Is nightly becoming in any soyerign to keep quiet and not meddle too much. with the business of his people and run his household affairs in uninter- esting order and smoothness. A King is interesting at coronation time-he makes such an excellent circus. After that his merit as potentate, like the success of marriage, may be mea- sured by the scarcity of news that he .creates.-Boston Evening Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-11
4 JUDICIAL THEORY.

''The creditors should get a little something" was the curious theory propounded by Justice Dickey from the bench of the Supreme court in Brooklyn the other day The occasion of the out burst was on a motion to approve the final report of a receiver who had been placed it charge of the affairs of the George w. Brandt Manufacturing Com pany. The receiver reported that all the assets he had been able to secure amounted to $500. Against this was placed claim of $S25 for collection: $7O for the services of a referee and other charges which absorbed the balance of the amount collected.
 The Brooklyn Times feels moved to make this comment: To the lay mind accustomed to the cost of legal proced- ure, there might seem nothing extraor- dinary in this, for creditors have been so well trained by experience that they have been accustomed to expect noth- ing but the customary lemon when the receiver makes his report. But Justice Dickey did not accept the view of the receivers duty which makes it his bust ness to see to it that all the money re- ceived shall be absorbed by the lawyers, and none permitted to percolate through to the creditors. Therefore, he proceed ed to cut down the charges by some thing over 60 per cent, concluding with the startling and revolutionary maxim set forth above.
 The comments of the lawyers on this
 decision have not been made public. Doubtless there were some.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-11

Indianapolis, Kansas City and Denver every 10 years, and at the same time maiming and mangling every man, wo- man and child in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho. Montana and Oklahoma and doing it every 10 years. It is sadly impress sive record.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small advertisements. One Cent Word zach insertion. Five Cents Word for . full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one aasertion. s1.9O; each subsequent inseT- eion. 40 cents; one week. SS.soi amO spsnth. $40: one year. $40.
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The first steel postal car ever con- structed has just been turned out of the shops of the Pennsylvania Rail- road company. The new car is ten feet longer than the ordinary postal car and more roomy. Eighteen windows admit light and 1T specially constructed elee- tric lights illuminate at night. In ad- dition to an electric storage battery there is also an apparatus under the car to generate electricity from the friction of the axles while running. The car can carry S0,OO0 pounds of mail, being equipped with boxes, cases and racks,
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Made in Germany again. An enter prising German has patented a device flor fitting photographs to doors, As the customer enters the door of a shop a voice will call out, Flour is cheaper to-day" New consignment of special quality mincemeat just received; try some," and similar invitations.
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Tommr,s ComnIaint.

Fathers got the fresh air craze and
 mothers got 1t too, And I don't know if I can stand this
 bloomin' winter through; We haven't a furnace fire cause father
 says as where A fire is unhealthy, so we warm with
 his hot air. He gets up early ev'ry morn an thaws
 out both the cats, And then goes up in our spare room
 an does some acrobats; The winders are left up all night, an in
 the morning, gosh! l have ter crack the ice up in the
 pitcher when I wash An mother, too, she's just as bad, she
 walks from two till four And then comes back an pulls at some
 thin hangin' on the door, And then she takes big long breath
 it's one O her best tricks And doesn't breathe till she has count
 ed up ter ninety-six We live on matted shavin's and shred
 ded doormats, too, An I cant use my appetite-it's just as
 good as new. An so I'm goin to Grandma's house
 where I can sleep and stuff. Till mother gets her lungs filled up an
 Pa gets air ernutf