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made his eyes shine with diamond. like lustsr. He was gnawinc oil d bi:: red apple.
 Say, Mr. Rogers. said r". "drre i~ Sandy Claws. ain't dcre: Flahrrtl says he's only man"
 "Of course there i~ Jimmy" said RogcrS. He was ill here awhile ago. and he left this ovorrOat for VOL.
 The coat was lined with red flannel and it wrapped Jimny'S form like a blanket He was intoxicated with de light. He walked up and down the room like a huSSHr on dress parade. As he ran his hand down into a capa- cious pocket his fingers touched some thing cold. and hr drew out a handful of ten cent pieces.
 "Hully gee" said he Il ain't never seen so many dimes in me fife. D;d Sandy put dem in de pocket"
 Yes, Jimmy, I think he did" said Rogers.
 Sandy is dago. ain't he:" said Jimmy.
 No: l believe he is German re- piled Rogers.
 "Oh, he's Dutch, is he:" said Jim my. Didn't he bring you nuttin':''
 No" laughed Rogers; "he forgot me this year. suppose he was too busy taking care of the children"
 Jimmy looked up wistfully into the face of the big man smiling down upon him; then he said:
 "Wouldn't you like to have Sandy bring you injlne or new pair O stockins:''
 'No, Jimmy,' replied Rogers, batting the boy upon the head, but if you happen to run across Santa Claus tell him to bring me something that would please a lonely old joker And Jim my vanished into the twilight
 Rogers and his partner were silent as thoy rode uptown ill Powers auto mobile. Rogers was thinking of the names he loved to hear" which had been "carVeh for many year on tie tomb. There was no loving smile 10 greet him when lie arrived at his lux Hri"H| bachelor apartments. No clam- oin.s children clIng to his coat as he sat NuI,M in SolitarN state to his ,iin her. oppressed by thronging memories. he ale paj, a few lnu'Itllftis a1ld drove
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THRNK

the past year, circumstances were such that it was deemed best not . push the matter. but the board feeling that the time is now ripe to take tais Hp requested the pastor 10 present th~ claim ol IIawley to each member ana to tho city also; and in presentin4 the matter not only call attention ta honorin@ the memory of the beloved pastor for whom the church va, named, but also that Hawle9 Mem- orial is great factor in the up- building of the moral and spiritual interest of thc city of Pine Bluff.
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COSMOPOLITAN CHRISTMAS,

How Philadelphia Celebrates the YuIe
 tide of Many Peoples. It is not the Christmas of one land, 1 but the Christmas of many, that Phil adelphia celebrates
 In 10 two Christian countries is the great natal day observed with the same i rites and customs. In the foreign set dement's of Philadelphia these variant forms, transported from the old lan,,s. i are kept alive. Indeed. at no other 1 time are the various nationalltics so very different as at Christmas In Little Italy. for instance tEc ''Sa- cred Bambino." or Christ Child, is wor. shiped for nine days before Christmas In every Italian home q novena is Sd id and bagpipc player .discourSes daily before Christmas shrine the "nac, miento.''
 In the city there are German children who, not knowing Santa Claus, look for the coming of krlss kringle and knaye Ruprecht on Christmas eve--ihe Christ Child distributing presents and the knave leaving switches for the chastisement of naughty little ones In the Swedish quarter. in the vicn- ity of Swanson and Christian streets. sheaves of wheat are placed at win dows or on housetops, that the birds as well as people may have Christ mas feast
 In a Chinese church Christmas hymns are sung in the language of COnfuciuS, most impressive and unusual cerc- mony.
 A colony of Syrians observe exceed ingly peculiar ceremonies in phlalrl phia, one being cnlivened by d danccl. who balances d keg of beer on his head.
 In the kensington section the click ing of countless shuttlcs gives place to the Yuletide customs of merry Eng land, so faithfully observed that the spectator might easily imagine himself transported magically to the tight little isle" itScf.--Philadclphia North American.
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Letters to Santa.

Two of the many letters mailed to Santa Claus last Christmas read as fol- lows
 dear sanity kloss If you don't come to my haus befour you come to willie Dor gins I'll never speak to you in my life
 Deer Santa CiouS. Tel me Norr tele- phone number so l can order a ortomob"t.l for poor boy What ain't got no father on our street. MINI BORMAN New York Times
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4 THE STEPS asssa SAVED

nd the annoyances and yexation, avoided by having an EXTENSION TELEPHONE on the office desk wit repay fourtold tho expense Incurred In the residence l. Is a safeguard against BURGLARS, FIRE and SUD DEN ILLNESS. The cost is slight
 THE SOUTHWESTERN
 TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
 COMPANY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22

Mr. JacI<son's Questions Filed in SUI
preme Court.

Late Saturday afternoon the attorney
general filed in the supreme court the
interrogatories for the international
Harvester company. The allowance of
these interrogatories will be heard by
the supreme court on August 8.
Mr.. Jackson wants to know how and
when the International Harvester COM
pany of America sold some of its stock
to the International Harvester company
of New Jersey. He also asks for the
time when the different harvester CON-
panies were purchased by the Interna-
tional and If before that time the COM
panies were not competing with each
other in this state and if the Interna-
tional did not acquire all the patent
rights to the different machines.
Just to show the company that the
attorney general already knows much
about the transactions leading up to the
purchase of the different independent
companies, the attorney general asks il
it isn't the truth that William G. Lane
first bought the entire capital stock of
the Milwaukee Harvester company and
later sold it to the International. But
the attorney general asks for explicit
details about this transfer and how the
former owners of Milwaukee stock were
induced to sell it to Mr.. Lane.
Mr.. Jackson also inquiries about the
trust certificates by which George w.
Perkins, Charles Deering and Cyrus H.
Mccormick vote the majority OF the
stock of the International Harvester
company of America and then he wants
to know who are the voting trustees of
the International Harvester company of
New Jersey.
The attorney general, towards the end
of the set of questions. wants to know
If any of the Independent companies
have transacted any business as indie
pendent companies since their absorp-
ton by the International. He also asks
for copies of the contracts with dealers
for the last four years and about the
exclusive contracts alleged by the attor-
ney general. AS a parting shot he
asks:
'Are not all the harvesting machines
formerly manufactured by the several
and firms now and in the
last four years sold by the defendant
in the state of Kansas to dealers at the
same price regardless to the cost to
and the price at which
they were formerly sold by the absorbed
That is to say are not the
Mccormick the Buckeye, the Champion,
the Hinnie and the Osborne reapers de-
livered to said agents at the same price?
Is not the same true of the moving
machines formerly manufactured by the
said companies? Does not the defend
ant now sell to dealers in Kansas, at a
price which is uniform, all of the har-
vesting machines formerly manufactur
ed and sold by all the several companies
purchased or absorbed by the Interna-
tional Harvesting company of New Jer-
sey?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
WANT FIFTY CENT RATE.
Private Car Owners Would Make
Sos, 900 a Day From Railroads.

Chicago, July 22.-The owners of
private car lines will try to compel
the railroads to pay them SO cents a
day for the use of their cars instead
of paying a mileage, Of three-quarters
of a cent. It is stated that there are
at least 10000 private cars in USE
and when they are. being transported
they would cost the roads $4,000 a
day. for their use If the movement is
successful.
At present the railroads pay the
owners of private cars from three
quarters of 1 cent to 1 cent a mile
for every mile their cars are operated,
loaded or empty. When the per diem
rate as between railroads for the use
of foreign cars was 20 cents per day
the private car owners refused to ac-
cept per diem arrangements. The
same was true when the charge was
increased to % cents. On July 1 the
railroads which are members of the
American Railway association agree
to increase the per diem charge to SO
cents day 1t is understood that the
mileage basis returns private car
owners about Is to 80 cents a day,
and to grant them per diem. would
increase the expense of the. railroads
fully 5000 daily
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
DENOUNCE STILLINGS.
Union Doesn't Like the Ways of the
Public Printer

Washington, July 22.-Declaring
that Public Printer Charles A. Stillings
is acting contrary to the laws of the
United States in inaugurating a sys-
tenn "of arbitrarily deducting certain
sums from the pay of proof readers
as a fine for inadvertently overlooking
errors in proofs read by them" the
Columbia Typographical Union No.
1O1 which in membership is the third
strongest typogra phical union in the
United States, adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the public printer and in
structing the secretary of the union
to call upon Attorney General Bona
parte for an opinion as to the public
printers legal right to impose such
fines.
The union mailed copy of the reso-
buttons to President Roosevelt and to
the department of justice. The reso-
lutions in part follow:
columbia Typographical Union No.
1O1 hereby protests against Public
Printer Stillings' arbitrary and I'M
warranted action in imposing fines
upon proof readers, believing that
said action is inimical. to the crafts
best interests and contrary to the laws
of the United States, and denounces
such action in unmeasured terms as
being prompted by the hope that it
will result, combined with other I'M
necessary and tyrannical acts of the
public printer in the decentralization
and disruption of our members now
employed in the government printing
Office"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22

er in May. The heads were stunted
and the grain is smaller as a result.
Little River-Latest estimates make
the average wheat yield in Rice county
IA bushels. Threshing was delayed by
rains. Corn is in splendid condition.
Logan-Wheat in this vicinity is
yielding an average of a little more
than Is bushels to the acre. The quail
ty is good. The area is larger than
last year.
Observation-Disclosures point to an av-
erage wheat yield of 10 bushels to the
acre in Ford county. Some of it is go
ing Is bushels.
Dodge City-With the setting of the
sun Saturday the wheat harvest was
completed in Ford county. There has
already been enough threshed to give
pretty accurate estimate of the crop.
A number of large fields have yielded
20 bushels to the acre, while some fields
have not given over five bushels. 1t is
now believed that the average for the
county will be eight bushels. possibly
ten. With the acreage standing when
harvest began, this will give a little
over a million bushels, and with prices
ranging between 20 and so cents. the
wheat crop of 1907 will bring more mon
ey than it ever has since farming began
in this section.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
RULING ON TARIFFS.
Western Roads Get One for Freight
From Canada.

from Canada.
Western roads have obtained from the
interstate commerce commission an
opinion on the necessity of filing tariffs
showing rates in effect from points in
foreign countries to points in the Unit
ed States. In it's opinion the commits
sion lays down the broad principle that
tariffs must be filed for all business not
specifically excepted from the operations
of the act, but these are the only excep-
lions to the rule.
Applying this principle, the commits
sion holds that for business originating
in Canada and destined to point in the
United States or through the United
States to foreign country, or on bust
ness from a point in the United States
to point in a foreign country, tariffs
must be filed showing the rates charged
by the United States lines for that por
ton of the transportation conducted
within the United States.
These rates, however, need not neces-
sarily be the same those charged On
business between the points within the
United States affected. That is, the
proportions of foreign rates accruing to
the American roads or foreign business
need not correspond to the domestic
rates in effect between the point of en-
try and destina ton, or vice versa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
Would Indicate IL Million
Bushels for Kansas.
GRAIN OF HIGH GRADE
Rain Has Delayed Work But
Did Little Damage.
The Yield in COwley Shows a
Small Average.

Preliminary estimates of average
wheat yields in 10 Kansas counties
show an average yield of 1856 bushels
to the acre for about IL million acres.
Eleven of the 10 counties are important
wheat counties and they seem to fairly
represent average conditions in the
state. A similar average yield over the
entire state. figured on the area re-
ported by Secretary Coburn as remain
ing June 1 for harvest. would make a
total yield of ~ million bushels. Ow-
ing to recent rains threshing will not
have progressed far enough for two or
three weeks to make possible a salts
factory estimate of the yield for the
state. but it seems probable that the
final figures will not be far from 20 mill
lion bushels.
Not much, threshing was done last
week. owing to rain. which fell every
day in some part of the state. The
soaking which the shocks have receiv-
ed doubtless will result in some tough
wheat but reports almost uniformly in
dictate a high quality of the crop
throughout the state, even where the
yield is light
The latest threshing reports received
are as follows:
Newton-A field of wheat near Sedg-
wick threshed out 35 bushels to the
acre. Reports indicate an average of
10 bushels in the northeast part of the
6 bushels. The test weight ranges from
SIS to a. Recent rains have greatly inn
proved the prospects for corn, alfalfa
and hay which is promising.
Winheld-MOst of the wheat is yield
ing 10 to II bushels, with quality very
fine. One field of acres yielded Az
bushels to the acre. 1t had been a
feed lot for years and the growth of
the plant was so vigorous that the
green bugs last spring did not hurt it.
Other fields on the same farm made Is
bushels to the acre. One 200-acre field
yielded 171z bushels. a yield of 20
bushels on 140 acres is reported from
north of town. The county yield is
estimated at half a crop. There has
been plenty of rain since June 1 and
condition. though two weeks late.
Belle Plaine-The best wheat yield
here was 80 bushels on ten acres.
Waverly-Wheat is turning out well.
average % bushels to the acre Corn
prospect is extra good. Most fields are
tasseIing.
OIathe-Johnson county wheat yields
will average 20 bushels to the acre.
Some fields yield as low as II to Is
els Oats are the best crop in years.
Corn is 100 where it has been kept
clean. Grass is fine.
Paola-Threshing returns show that
the average wheat yield in Miami coun-
ty cannot be more than 16 bushels 20
the acre. Last year the production ex-
ceeded "a bushels. Farmers are get
ting so cents for the new wheat. Hay
has been damaged in the southeast and
central parts of the county by rains. No
rain has fallen for three weeks in the
northwest part. Hay is thriving there
but corn is suffering. Farmers say
that the wheat production has been d.
n1lnlShed on account of the cold wealth. |
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BUY MEXICO PROPERTY.
Several lola Citizens Will Try the
Southern COlG1try.

lola, Kan, July 22.-Twenty-eight
lola people have purchased farms in
the American colony in Old Mexico on
the Mexican Central railroad and at
hte foot of the Sierra Madra noun
tains and many of them are planning
to go to that country to live while
others will go merely for the purpose
of looking over that country.
The plan of the company, which is
selling these Old Mexico farms, is to
organize a town and sell the town lots
at 500 at the same time giving
farm of from 5 to 1000 acres free of
charge to the purchaser of the lot.
The size of the farm will depend upon
the distance from town. the 1000 acre
farms being the farthest and the 5
acre farms the closest to the town.
The local salesman says the Mexican
farmers are still using oxen for plow-
ing and forked stick for Spading and
that hundreds of acres of the best kind
of agricultural land are being allowed
to go to waste.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
STORM DESTROYS is HOUSES.
Woman and Baby Are Blown Dis
tance of 100 Yards.

Williston, n. D., July pa terrific
wind, hail and rainstorm last night
destroyed fifteen dwelling houses, in
jured twenty-five people. two of them
probably fatally, and did much other
damage to property in this city and
thu surrounding country.
Those believed to be fatally hurt
are a man named Holmes and Mrs.
Collinson. Mrs. Collinson and her
baby were blown out of their house
for a distance of about 100 yards,
landing against a wire fence. Their
house was entirely destroyed.
Most of the houses demolished were
in the suburb of West Lawn and were
small structures. The court house,
school house and Union block sus-
tanned considerable damage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
WOULD GUST THE MAYOR,
Atchison Old Soldiers Feel That They
Have Been Mistreated.

Atchison, Kan, July 22.-At a meet
ing of the Veterans League, held here,
motion was passed calling upon the
county attorney to bring custer pro-
ceedings against S. S. King, mayor of
Atchison. for his failure to follow the
old soldiers preference law in making
appointments.
Members of the league claim King,
who is a Republican, has not appoint
ed as many old soldiers to office as his
Democratic predecessor. Mayor King
is quoted as saying he appointed old
soldiers TO all offices with one excep-
ton that they are physically compe-
tent to fill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
JACKSON AT CoFFEYvIILE.
The Attorney General Says a Word or
Two ON Law Enforcement.

Two ON Law Enforcement.
Coffeyville. July 22.-''How much
law was involved in The suits brought
to drive the brewers from Kansas
Just one line across the page of the
constitution of Kansas; the supreme
court shall have original jurisdiction
in proceedings in quo warrants.
THE court said this meant that IT
had all the Jurisdiction, all the pow
er that any court. exercised in quo
adopted. And it found a way not
only to make it's judgment effective,
but to see that all property and
means brought into the state to break
down our laws should be taken out"
In this manner Attorney Generaf
Jackson Saturday discussed his re-
cent victorious crusade against the
liquor interests in Kansas at the Cof-
feyville chautauqua. He went on to
but listen to this language of the
court, speaking through Justice
Burch:
I'm this case this court had no pur-
pose to distort the procedure into a
mere auxiliary of the prohibftory law.
In this case that power was exercised
to prevent the defendant by manipu-
lation of property which it could not
legally hold, from circumventing an
actual custer, and rendering the
whole proceeding a solemn farce. the
expenses of which should be borne by
an outraged commonwealth.
IT have little or no fault to find
with the courts. either federal or
state. I view with greater alarm the
tendency to complain at courts where
they have sought in all fairness to
perform plain duty. Not long since
the governor of Missouri, whom I
regard at the present time as the
ablest man in the party, complained
at the readiness with which federal
courts issue injunctions against state
laws. And a former candidate for
president, himself an ex-Judge, sounds
the alarm that we are approaching
dangerous nationalism. believe
these exaggerated fears. There has
never been a time when there was
less cause for fear of encroachment
upon state powers. rightfully under
stood than at present"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
WILL AFTER MULVANE YARDS.
Santa Fe Preparing for Traffic on
Belen Cutoff

Santa Fe Preparing for Traffic on
Belen Cutoff
In order to handle the heavy traffic
which Is soon to be run over the Relen
cutoff, the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad is preparing to alter the
Mulvane. =
Material is now arriving for the i'm
provements, which will consist of
changing the course of the cutoff track
from Augusta TO Mulvane, which now
comes into the town yards, so it will
strike the main line at a point a half
mile north of the city. The deep re-
verse curve which prevents heavy traf-
nc over the line will be leveled and the
track Will be raised. 1t is the inten-
ton OF the company to elevate the
track from this point to the junction
south of the yards, where the branch
which runs to Wellington and Wood
ward joins the main line.
This is done, it is claimed, in order
10 level the entire track and to avoid
both the grades on the line from Au-
gusta and the line from Wellington,
which is a severe drawback to freight
traffic.
1t is said that the raising of the
yards in the town will necessitate the
business blocks of the city being eleva-
ted, and much comment is being made
in. Mulvane over the prospects of the
change in the grade of the streets
There is no definite date given by
INC OAAACCAS VI INC santa Z DIS 10 when
the road Will be in shape for heavy
traffic, but it is generally believed that
the track all along the line will admit
of this travel by November at the lat
est. The main line travel will be great
ly relieved when this change is made,
as the heavy freight from Kansas City
will be diverted at Florence to the Wal
nut Valley line to Augusta, when it
will be carried through Mulvane to
Wellington, and thence on west to the
main line again, when it will connect
with the coast line at Belen, N. NJ,
thus avoiding the high mountains at
Ration Pass and the Glorietta noun
tains, which have been a severe bar
rier to fast transit between the east
and the western coast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
SCRAP HEAPS ARE SMALL.
Equipment Which Was Formerly
Thrown, Away Is Used Now.

Operating officials are commenting on
the fact that their scrap heaps are now
being robbed of much material that was
previously sent to them with tire great
est alacrity. The scarcity of equipment
has made it necessary to take the ut
most possible service out of every car
obtainablc, and many that would for
merly have been sent to the scrap heap
without moments hesitation are being
patched up and sent to branch lines
where the traffic is light, and no great
stress will be put upon this style of
euuipment This enables the roads to
reserve the great bulk Of their new and
enlarged equipment for themain through
lines where traffic is heaviest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
CAwKER CITY's CHAUTAUQUA.
A Splendid Program for the IS Days
Beginning Aug. 10.

Cawker City, Kan, July 22.-At the
last meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Lincoln. Park Chautauqua
association, the resignation of E. J.
Williams of stockton, was accepted,
and Robert Good of Jamestown, was
elected financial secretary
The ninth annual assembly of the
Lincoln Park chautauqua will be held
at the park two miles west of this
place beginning August 10th and clos
ing August 18th. Senator La Toilette
Governor Cummins, Senators Long
and Curtis, DR.. Gunsaulus, John Mer-
rite Driver, Guy Carleton Lee ana
Rev. French oliver. the evangelist
are the "topliners" at this meeting