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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
NORMAL INSTITUTE.
Shawnee County's School for Teachers
to Open june 3.

Arrangements have been completed
by John r. Carter. county superin-
tendent of school, for the thirty-first
session of the normal institute of
Shawnee county, which will be held
at the high school building in this city
from June 8 to June 20.
The sessions of the institute will
begin each morning at 1880 O'Clock
and at the conclusion of the four
weeks term examinations for teach
ers' certificates will be held. Those
desiring to enjoy the advantages of the
institute may register with the county
superintendent at any time from now
until the institute opens. Those who
are eligible to take the course include
all teachers, high school students,
graduates of high schools, graduates
of common schools and all other per-
sons desiring to teach or review the
common branches of study
Prof. H. L, Miller. principal of the
Topeka high school, will be the con-
ductor of the institute, and the in
structors who will work under him are
Professors A. J. Stout. o. P. M. Nc
Clintock, E. F. Stanley and John r.
Carter.
In a circular on the purposes of the
institute and opportunities it affords,
which has been issued by Superintend-
ent Carter, is this statement:
Inducements to take up the pro-
greater than ever before The demand
for good teachers is constantly increas-
ing and is far beyond the supply.
Boards of education are offering an
advance in wages in proportion to efh-
ciencv and experience
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
Imprisonment of Prominent
Railroad Men Is Needed.
WOULD Do MORE GOOD
Than Anything Else Toward
Improving Conditions.
Commissioner Lane Hints at
Criminal Prosecution.

Chicago, May PA dispatch to the
Tribune from Washington says:
The interstate commerce commission
in the treatment of corporations which
persist in violating the law.
Commissioner Clements said yester-
day:
''One of the most wholesome things
in Jail of some man of prominence in
the railway world. 1t would do more
than anything else to bring about bet
ter conditions.
'It would not be necessary to put in
Jail all the men who ought to be there.
Just let one or two who hold high posi-
tions in the social and business world
be put behind bars. This would act as
a powerful deterrent for many would
safety
Questions of criminal prosecution by
the commission have been delegated to
Franklin K. Lane of California. When
Mr.. Lane was asked: Are you going to
send somebody in the railroad world to
jail?'' he replied:
Il hope that it will not be necessary.
will get on most harmoniously.. But if
the law is broken, then there will be
trouble
+tDo you intend to have Edward H.
Hartman proseeuted?"
'"That whole subject is under con-
sideration by the commission. If
Hartman has been guilty of any in
merce he will, as a matter of course,
be prosecuted ed-not at all because he
is Hartman, but because he is an Of
fender against the law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
GAS IS A FAILURE.
So Condemned Dogs Will Hereafter
Be Shot.

That the Ieaden pill is preferable to
the gas capsule for the treatment of
dogs which are suffering from nom
taxitis. was the verdict of Mayor Green
after watching the test Saturday.
1t took over half an hour to kill
one tank of dogs in the gas box fur
nished by the Humane society. The So
ciety has gone to considerable trouble
and expense to build the killing box,
which is now considered failure. Sat
urday afternoon Mayor Green, HUI
name officer King and a number of
other spectators, stood in the yard
back of the city jail, and held the
watch on 20 dogs which were piled into
the killing vat. The vat has a glass
peek hole, and the struggles of the
dogs. as they slowly smothered, were
plainly visible to the onlookers. The
vat was connected with a gas jet in
the hospital room. the two wagon loads
of condemned CANNES thrust inside, and
the Juice" turned on. 1t was Sc min
utes after the gas had been turned on
that the last dog gave up the ghost.
Il do not consider that a humane
way to kill them, said Mayor Green.
"and hereafter the dogs will be shot"
The gas supply was through a small
tube. which might have something to
do with the time it took to kill the
dogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
Chinese Outbreak at WOngkOng
in Uping District.
All Civil and Military Officials
Are Assassinated.
ARE BURNED.
German Missionary Station Is
Destroyed at Lieu Chow.
Marines Leave Hong Kong for
Scene of Trouble.

Swatow. Province of Kwawtung
China, May 27.-A rebellion has broken
out at Wongkong, in the Uping district
of the Chin Chu prefecture. All the civil
and military officials at Wong Kong
have been assassinated and their
Yamens burned.
The local revolutionists who were
Joined by natives of the neighboring
provinces, concentrated for their attack
on the officials without being molested
by the populace.
The military commander here has
mustered the station guards and started
for the scene of the outbreak. Steps
are being taken by the local police to
prevent exceSses here.
he Chinese bankers have organized a
steam launch patrol of the coast to pre-
vent piratical attacks on the part OF
marauders from the seaward.
According to advices received by the
German Gable company from Shanghai
disturbances have also broken out at
Pakhoi and the situation there. as at
Lien Chow, is apparently serious.
Rioting at Lien Chow.
Berlin, May 27.-According to dis
patches received here from Shanghai
and Hong Kong, native rioters have
destroyed the German mission station at
Lien Chow near Pakhoi. The mission
aries escaped. The German gunboat
Hits, reinforced by 20 marines from the
gunboat Tsingtau has left Hong Kong
for Pakhoi and it is expected that n
British gunboat will also be sent to
that port.
Five American missionaries were kill
ed in Lien Chow October %, 1905. and 3
hospital and other mission property
were destroyed. Indemnity for the loss
of life and property was paid by the
Chinese government early in January
last year.
Troops Are Forwarded.
Canton, China, May 27.-Admiral Ii.
with the Kwangtah and Meefoo or
board of which are detachments OF
troops, is proceeding to the. scene Of
the rising in the Uping district.
-Four Americans There.
New York, May 27.-Four mission
aries of the Presbyterian board of for
eign missions are now stationed at Lien
Chow, according to a statement made
at the offices of the board in this city
today. They are Rev. John s. Sanlxle,
who lately returned Lien Chow, after
a furlough in England. The Rev. Reese
F. Edwards and his wife, and Miss
Elda Patterson. They have been in the
mission field so long that their home
addresses are not accessible at the Of
fee of the board in this city.
Since the outbreak of 1905, the Pres
byterian missions at Lien Chow have
been re-established, but are not con-
nected in any way with the German
mission, the destruction of which is re-
ported at Berlin.
No information of the trouble at Lien
Chow has been received from the Pres
byterian missionaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
HIT THE WRONG MAN.
William Coleman, Negro Printer,
Makes Slight Mistake.

William Coleman, a negro printer en-
ployed by Nick Chiles, while attempt
ing TO shoot a friend named David
Beard Sunday night. missed Mr.. Beard
and shot a total stranger named Will
lam Lobe. Lobe was taken to Keith s
hospital. and the slight wound in his
thigh repaired. He was able to come
around to the police station on crutch-
es today.
After making this slight mistake in
aim. Mr.. Coleman departed, pursued by
officers. Doubling on his track,-he
knew it was no use to run when the
Topeka police were after hin,-Mr.
Coleman chased down and reported at
the police station. He was booked for
discharging fire arms in the city. The
shooting occurred in front of the no.
torious negro joint on East Seventh
street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
KILLED HIS COUSIN.
Discharged Pistol That He Did Not
Know Was Loaded.

Kansas City, May 27-''Put her right
herel" said William Alma .Frisbey, the
eldest son of Special Deputy Marshal
C. c. F'risbey.. last evening. opening his
coat and bariEg his right breast as
his cousin Leslie CLIFFORD. 16 years old.
was f1ourishing two revolVers, which
he did not know were loaded. Leslie
raised the revolver in his right hand
to his cousins breast, pulled the trigger
and exploded a she'll William stagger-
ed backward a few steps and fell, cry
ing:
tori
He lived about three minutes.
The shooting occurred at G. G. F'ris-
bey's residence. Twenty-seventh street
and the Big Blue, just after o'clock
Leslie Clifford and his older brother
Harry Clifford, Jr., had been uptown
during the afternoon and While there
Leslie had traded a bicycle to his half
brother, Arthur Watkins, for the re-
volver with which he shot Will Fris-
Leslie and Clifford reached F'risbey's
house just as Will Frisbey had gone
upstairs to his room to change his
clothes before attending to some chores
about the place. Leslie showed Will his
new revolver and Will got out a revol-
yer of his own and the boys compared
them.
All three walked down stairs togeth-
er, Leslie carrying one revolver in each
hand He began fourishing them
around in a spirit of bravado, which
led to Will F'risbey's dare and death.
Leslie dropped both revolvers when
the one was discharged, and stood for
moment motionleSS and speeches..
He ran to his cousins side as the lat
ter fell, put his arms around him and
over and over:
Il didn't mean to do it, Billie!
didn't mean to do it! 1 didn't know it
was loaded"
Deputy Marshal Frisbey, father of
the dead boy, said that the shooting
was accidental.
1.-The boys We're fooling with the guns
and one of them got shot " he said
last night. Then his voice broke. After
a moment he added: "It was just boys
play l don't blame anyone"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
winsIow voting Machine Here.

L. r. Winslow, of Chicago, is here to
demonstrate before the city council.
the operation of the Winslow voting
machine. This is the machine that is
used in Chicago and by the use of the
machine the vote in the election was
returned to the Daily News one minute
after the polls closed. The same ma
chine registers the male and female
vote. When there are no nominations
under a party, the key is locked so
that it cannot cause a mutilated ball
lot. The election judges do not have a
key to the machine and there is no
manner in which the returns can be
tampered with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
M. W. JAMES IS DEAD.
Lost His Life in Lamp Explosion at
Home in Willard.

NJ. W. James, the well-known stock
man of Willard, about fifteen miles
from Topeka, was burned to death last
night at his home in that place. Mr..
James went to his room and began work
at his desk. About eleven O'Clock the
family down stairs heard a commotion
in his room and upon investigation
found that Mr.. James clothes and desk
were on fire. He was very severely
burned and suffered from eleven till
three o'clock in the morning. when he
died.
1t is supposed that the fire was caused
by the explosion of the lamp on his
desk. Mr. James was we'll known as an
owner and raiser of fine stock, having
owned a number of fast horses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
MAKES CARNEGIE ILL.
Prick Plans a Five Million Dollar Gift
to Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, Pa, May 27.-'I'll make
you wish you never had been born"
Henry Clay Frick, in a moment of
anger at Andrew Carnegie, is said to
have declared to him many years ago.
Whether he did or did not say this.
the developments of today tend to
show that Mr.. Frick is not paying
much attention to the feelings of his
former master.
Frick had just decided to erect a
building of his own alongside of the
magnificent Carnegie institute here.
and he will do it on such a scale that
the low lying Carnegie institute build
ings will look somewhat squatty-
While news of Mr.. Frick's intentions
did not come out until today. Mr..
Carnegie learned when he was here at
the dedication of his own buildings a
month ago that his enemy, Frick. had
been allowed to get land close enough
to erect a building which will compare
made Mr.. Carnegie really i'll and
caused him to cut short his visit in
Pittsburg.
Friends of Frick announced today
he would erect an Academy OF Fine
Arts to be presented to Pittsburg on
lands directly opposite the big Car
negie institute here: that the plans
would be made public in very short
time for this building. which OF itself
will cost million dollars. The land
on which it is to be built has cost al
most a million dollars. Mr.. Frick
will also endow the Academy of Art
and turn the whole over to the people
of Pittsburg without their being asked
to pay a cent.
Mr.. Frick, it is understood, has al
ways been opposed to Mr.. Carnegie's
method of increasing the taxes of the
people of the city through his i'm
mense conditional gifts, and this is
one of the things over which Carnegie
and Frick fell out years ago.
- -
building of such beauty and magni-
tude that it will rot only be a worthy
rival of the Carnegie library building.
but in some respects will eclipse the
later edifice, splendid as it is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
IRRIGATION CASE AGAIN.
Motion for Rehearing in Supreme
Court Today.

Washington. May 27.-On behalf of
the state of Kansas, Solicitor General
Hoyt today entered a motion in the su-
preme court of the United States for
leave to file petition for rehearing In
the Kansas-Colorado case, which was
decided by the court two years ago in
the interest of Colorado.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
TAFT TRIP CUT SHORT.
Secretary VIII Come No Further Than
st. E.ouis.

Washington, May 27.-Secretary
Taft will return to washington i'm
mediately after delivering his speech
in st. Louis May so. This change in
his plans was made necessary by the
action of Oklahoma Republicans who
Tulsa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
Artist paul Moran Dead.

Los Angeles, Cal. May 27-PauI
Moran, son of Thomas Moran, the
New York landscape painter and him
self a portrait painter died at the
county hospital yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
weather Indications.

Chicago, May 27.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Increasing cloudiness tonight; pro-
baby showers Tuesday; rising temper
ature
The Republican journal., 1907-11-14
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

ID L RESIDENT hOOSEN ELF.
Once again the season of the year has
come when, in accordance with the Gus
tom of our forefathers for generations
past, the President appoints a day as
the special occasion for all our people
to give praise and thanksgiving to God.
During the last year we have been
free from famine. from pestilence, from
war. We are at peace with all the rest
of mankind. Our natural resources
are at least as great as those of any
other nation. We believe that in ability
to develop and take advantage of the
resources the average man of this ma
ton stands at least as high as the
average man of any other. Nowhere
else in the world is there such an op-
portunity for free people to develop
to the fullest extent all its powers of
body, of mind and of that which stands
above both body and mind-character.
Much has been given us from on high
and much will rightly be expected of us
in return. Into our care the ten talents
have been in trusted: and we are to be
waste them nor yet if we hide them in
our hands. Ever throughout the ages,
at all times and among all peoples,
prosperity has been fraught with dan
ger and it behooves us to beseech the
Giver of all things that we may not fall
into love of ease and of luxury, that
we may not lose our sense of moral re-
sponslbility, that we may not forget
our duty to God and to our neighbor.
A great democracy like ours, a de-
mocracy based upon the principles of
orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only
If in the heart Of the ordinary citizen
there dWells keen sense Of righteous
ness andejustice. We should earnestly
pray that this spirit Of righteousness
and justice may grow ever greater in
the hearts of all of us, and that our
souls may be inclined evermore both
towards the virtues that tell for gentle
ness and tenderness, for loving kind
ness and forbearance one with another,
and toward those no less necessary viz
tues that make for manliness and rug
ged hardihOod- without these
qualities neither nation nor individual
can rise to the level of greatness.
Now, therefore, l, Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States, do
set apart Thursday, the 2sth Of Novem-
Der, as a day of general thanksgiving
and prayer, and on that day l recon-
mend that the people shall cease from
their daily work and in their homes or
in their churches meet devoutly to
thank the Almighty for the many and
great blessings they have received in
the past, and to pray that they may be
given the strength so to order their
lives as to deserve continuation of
these blessings in the future.
The Republican journal., 1907-11-14
MAIL ORDER FRAUDS.

The English Postal Authorities Have No
Power to Exclude the Mail of Crooked
Concerns-Asitationf for il Law Modelled
After the One in the United States.
It's generally maintained by English
men that the post Office business is bet
ter managed i'll England than in Amer
lea. There are not few Americans
that express this opinion. 1t is with
an agreeable shock of surprise, there
fore, to Americans that many English
men are now conceding that John
Bulls post office can learn something
from Uncle Sans much maligned
institution.
And that is the method it adopts
to check wholesale swindling of the
public by rejecting the mail of fraud
ulent concerns. Some influential folk
are now agitating for the passage of a
law which will confer similar black
listing powers.
For years past the United Kingdom
has been a ''happy hunting ground"
for the fraudulent concerns which have
been driven out of the United States
and other countries. They are regis
tered as American companies, but their
whole business is done in England, for
the simple reason that their native
country has closed its mails against
them. Some Of the English better-class
journals take every opportunity OF
exposing them, but the newspapers of
the largest circulation accept their
advertisements and preserve discreet
silence concerning their iniquities. And
the post office aids and abets them by
accepting all their correspondence.
The amount of swindling which is car
ried on through fake circulars, letters
and newspaper advertisements in Eng
land is appalling. The police are pow
erless to deal with the offenders owing
to the peculiar nature of the English
criminal procedure, and it is really only
through the post office that they can be
driven out of business.
1t is interesting to note in this con-
nection that, whereas England has
been slow in following the example of
Uncle Sam in dealing with the evil,
her colonies have not. Australia al
ready has law which enables her post
office to reject the correspondence OF
fraudulent concerns, and New Zealand
has recently followed suit.
A ''black list just published by the
NEW Aedldnu post ONCE contalileu tiie
names of more than 30 firms or indi-
viduals who are forbidden to use the
mails for business purposes.
The large majority of the offenders in
England, as was the case in the United
States, are medical quacks. Many of
them are of world wide reputation.
trading in almost every country where
the laws permit them. In the New
Zealand list is famous doctor of
Fort Wayne, Ind, against whom the
mails of the United States have been
closed these many months. The same
individual is still making a rich har-
vest in DECENTRALIZATION Globe.
The Republican journal., 1907-11-14

When the Stomach, Heart, or Kidney
nerves get weak, then these organs always
fail. Don't drug the Stomach. nor stimu-
late the Heart or Kidneys. That is simply
a makeshift. Get prescription known to
Druggists everywhere as DR.. Shoops Re-
storative.. The Restorative is prepared ex-
pressly for these weak inside nerves.
Strengthen these nerves, build them up
with Dr.. Shoop's Observation-Disclosures or
liquid-and see how quickly help will come.
Free sample test sent on request by Dr..
Shoop, Racine, Wis. Your health is surely
worth this simple test. R. II. Moody, Bel
fast, and j. Fl. Montgomery, Searsport.
The Republican journal., 1907-11-14
MAINE GIRL A PUBLISHER.
The Story of How Quincy Adams SAWYER"
Came to Light.

Ihe story Oh HOW quincy Adams Sawyer
Came to Light
People who are growing fat with
laughing over Quincy Adams Sawyer
| may like to hear the story of the publ
cation of the book, especially when
they learn that the enterprising pub
Usher was a Maine girl. "The Editor"
magazine for writers, published in
New York, tells the story in sub
stance as follows:
Several years ago, Miss CAIRO NJ.
Clark, girl from Unity, Maine, went
to Boston and took a position as book
keeper. Being an enterprising young
woman she made up her mind to 90 in
to business for herself, so she saved a
little money and opened store in The
Back Bay region where she sold station
cry and books. One evening she was
invited to hear an author read his man
uscrpt of new story. She went, lis
tened, and had an idea. "Why should l
not publish this story?" She made the
proposition to the author, who was new
to the business of writing hooks and
was not pursued by greedy publishers.
He listened, liked the spirit of the girl
from Maine, and ended by signing a
contract with her. Miss Clark pub
lished the book-it was Quincy Ad-
ans Sawyer" boldly set precedent
TO one side III planning for its sale.
She posted and blazoned it from Maine
to California, and she sold more than
quarter of a million copies before the
public began to show signs of safety,
and it is selling yet.
This is all of the tale as told by 'The
Editor" An interesting sequel would
be the story of how the book came to
be dramatized, and how sQuin" and
Samantha and Mandy and Obadiah
Strout and the rest of them grew into
visibility and became the we'll known
personages who make us laugh till we
cry. Did the bright eye of the publish
er perceive the dramatic possibilities
OF Hiram with doughnut hanging on
his finger, or did she have a delicious
vision of Abner Stiles coming to the
husking with a "bokay' in his button.
hole and those ineffable Whiskers flow
ing in the breeze?
That a story like Quincy Adams
Sawyer" should have had such run
can not be attributed wholly to the en-
terprise of the publisher, for the book
is devoid of style and has almost no lit
erary value. But the characters in it
appeal irresistibly to the peoples in
born dramatic sense which seizes upon
its natural food wherever it finds it.
The beautiful pathetic figure of Alice
which the author had not sufficient
skill to place in the gallery of literary
personages, becomes alive and appeal.
ing when we see her on the stage. 1t
is the same with the humorous charac
ters. Dickens could have made us see
Abner and his whiskers by means of
words alone; his creator could not, but
the possibilities in him could be seized
upon and developed by the clever play
er.-Mabel S. Merrill, in the Lewiston
Sun.
The Republican journal., 1907-11-14
AN APPLE.

0, for an apple firm and new,
Crisp and brittle, and juicy cool,
Fresh from the hillside where it grew
"Native fruit" by no grafter's rule!
o, for an apple that has not been
Rarrelled or boxed, and bounced to town,
Then bumped for miles on the railway, in
A freighter, till it is bruised and brown!
O, for an apple that never knew
The "middleman," nor a city street,
That still remembers the grass and dew
Of fragrant orchard, wide and sweet!
An apple no dealer has ever dubbed
By stuck-0n label as "extra fine''-
That the push cart peddler has never rubbed
On the seat Of his trousers to make it
shine!
In short, an apple that had its birth
And grew in sunshine, and breeze, and
rain,
In the sweetest, loveliest place on earth
A dear old orchard in central Maine!
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