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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

Now 1t is proposed to stop the
natural gas companies from selling us
air in the place of gas. inasmuch as
most people have plenty of air to
burn. Are the corporations to have no
ri1Hafa Ieff7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

If congress really should cut off the
free seed graft 1t won't make much
difference with the amount of garden
products that will be raised. Con-
gressional seeds are not famous for
their growing qualities anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

The United States expended sos mill
Hon dollars for buildings last year.
How much of this amount do you sup
pose two trusts. lumber and steel, got
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
a VERsATILE Ass.

That such an amusing and versatile
ass as Sir JamesssAlexander Swetten-
ham should be governor of Jamaica at
a time like this is British misfortune
which compels the sympathy of all in
telligent Americans.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

Sixty-six of the ninety members Of
the United States senate are lawyers,
and this does not include Aldrich of
Rhode Island or Dryden of New Jer-
sey, both of whom are scheduled as
ssbusiness men,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

The coal famine has apparently been
reIieved-at least nothing more is heard
of it. Who says it doesn't pay to make
a fuss?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
LEGISLATIVE SALARIES.

The Salaries of Kansas judges have
been increased. Possibly the action is
all right, but the thing really needed is
increased pay for the members of the
legislature. 1t is really a shame to ask
a man to- go to Topeka as representa-
tive of his county on salary that will
not pay his hotel expenses. You can't
expect good service from men who
work for such pittance. The poor
man or the man who has Intelligence
enough to be probably employed will
decline to serve. AS it is the tempra-
ton to boCdle to help out on the Slim
salary is ever present. The members of
the legislature should be better pail
Sedgwick Paragraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
WANTED TO ESCAPE.

Perhaps the intent of those New
York millionaires who bought tickets
for Europe was to relieve the inter-
state commerce commission of the
embarrassment of their presence
while they were under discussion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
KICK.tAGAIN.

If Vic Murdoch, really saved the gov
eminent five million dollars a year by
his kick on the mail weighing graft we
take off our hats TO him. Kick again.
Victor.-Sedgwick Pantagraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

The reelection of Senator Bailey in
Texas makes one fear what might
have happened in Kansas were Mr.
Burton's case still hanging fire in the
courts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

Even darkest Arkansaw has passed
a two-cent fare law Will Kansas al
low Arkansaw to be more progressive
than the Sunfiower state?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
PROFESSORS' PAY.

There are oceans Of money going to
the educational institutions, but it is
all going into buildings and new work.
An increase of the professors salaries
should be listed as one of the features
of the new work.-Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

The kaiser can apparently give the
car all sorts of pointers on how tc
elect the sort Of a douma he wants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
HIS sPARE MOMENTs.

Grover Cleveland probably would be
willing to act as the next senator from
New Jersey during those portions of
the year when he is neither hunting
nor fishing-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

Mr.. Shonts says his work on the
Panama canal is finished. But per-
haps it would not have been had he
not found something that would pay
him better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
A WORD FOR Holm d

We are afraid John D. Rockefeller
isn't going to have much time to play
golf next summer if he has to answer
to all the indictments that have been
found against him. That alone would
take up all the pleasantest hours of the
day for about 16 months. They ought to
be a little easy ON a man whose stom-
ach was never very strong, and who
really needs a little time outside the
jails and court rooms to tone up his
system.-Jewell Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

& Those kilograms which Mr.. Taylor
received from the east about the two
cent fare proposition sound for all the
world like a bluff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
FLExIBILITY OF HAz1NG.

The dubious OUTDOOR Tor Senator La
Follette's railroad bill in the house
may open that gentleman's eyes to the
fact that the senate move in mysteri-
GUS ways its hazing to perform
Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
NEWSPAPER JOYs.

The Newspaper man has been sep
arated from his pass. The postoffice
department is now urging an advance
in postal rates. If they will keep up
the good work by making it a peniten-
tiary offense for newspapers to main
tain a job Office or receive money on
subscription they will have us fixed pro-
perly.-SedgWick Pantagraph. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

The Almanach Hachette is a Paris
publication. II it is like most altman
acs and most hatchets 1t is extremely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

Natural gas has reached Wichita.
Now Wichita will have a chance to pay
Is cents a thousand feet for its own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Still it is not far step from Sunday
baseball games to Sunday horse races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
FROM OTHER PENS
TO BE EXPECTED.

A medical authority says that man
can accustom himself to any degree of
cold, and it is probably, true, even
though Peary, just home from the
neighborhood of the North pole, did
catch a severe cold in Boston.-Wash-
ingtOn Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
wE4KINGS.

And so some of the FI1ipInos think
our policy is making their people
where did they get that word Pm
dianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

At the rate the Thaw jury is pro-
crossing. it viii soon be minus
quantity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
SATIcEACTTONl

Those who have had to endure the
odor of some of the cheap brands of
cigars will readily understand why
that jury promptly found the tobacco
trust guilty.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

The purpose of the Associated Press
end its method Of operation is well !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
Dress Suits "Hand -me-downs."

Dress suits are only hand-me-downs.
They were first used by Englishmen as
riding suits, and their present use is an
outgrowth of that of a few centuries
ago. This is the explanation OF the
modern evening dress as given by Prof.
Frederick Starr to his class in anthro-
pology at the University of Chicago yes
4terday
when the predecessor of the modern
dress suit was in vogue as riding coat,
1t was only the rich who could afford to
keep horses said Prof Starr. 1.-THE
coat was designed to give the greatest
usefulness, but when it began to wear
out it was the practice of the mas
ter to hand it down to his servant, who
used it on gala occasions. Thus it came
about that only the aristocrats and the
servants wore the garment.
$50, today only the men who are able
to attend our exclusive affairs and the
servants at these same functions wear
the dress suit. The custom is a survival
from the old English fashion.
THE old riding coat was cut away
from the waist to prevent the coat skirts
from getting in the way in riding, while
the pair of buttons in the back wero
used to fasten these skirts behind. The.
notches in the present curiously cut col-
lar were to allow the collar to be turn
ed up. The sham cuffs used to be real
cuffs made to turn back.-Chicago In
ter-Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01
All Sorts.

The Sahara desert is half as large
as the United States.
Europe has not one-fifth of the rail
way mileage per capita that America
has.
1t is. said that there is a regular
traffic in lending engagement rings in
Australia.
Cork dust is extensively used for
shipping and keeping grapes In many
European grape centers.
The latest thing in shoes is a de-
tachable sole and heel so that every
man may become his own. shoemaker:
The French law treats the frog as II
it were a fish, and declares all hshing
for it by night to be poaching.
/. Peruvian tombs dating back to the
time of the Incas have been found to
contain fine specimens of cotton
fabrics
The island of Java is losing its
supremacy as a coffee producer. The
crop produced in Sumatra now almost
equals it. $50 -s.-;s,.~
Two mail order houses, instalment.
have opened for business in chicago
and the results are awaited with in
terest by trades people.
Interest in "a monument to Elihu
Burritt has been revived ,at New Bri-
tain, Ct, the Learned blacksmith's"
native place.
some wine recovered in 1914 from a
wreck in the Scheldt. The wine had
been bottled in 1878.
A Swedish inventor, thinks that the.
price of alcohol made from peat wiki
be less than ,one-half of the present.
price of alcohol, and lower than the
lowest. price of refined petroleum.
) Where 100. to $50 people live to the
square mile the death rate average
sixteen 1000. Where there are over
800 to the square miles the death rate
increases to twenty-four a 1000.
There is an enormous number of
small landholders in Egypt, 100000
acres being cultivated by over 1000
600 landowners. of whom 5000 are
Europeans, owning on an average a
little over one hundred acres.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

First Commuter-What do you do with
yourselves evenings, old man? Second
Commuter-I take the sos train from the
city.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

sigh, slipped the last sketch into her
portfolio. Now if you will come back
to supper with me, We will talk them
over" she said.
They sat on Mrs. Brady's porch just
before sunset and Elizabeth laid one
of her sketches in barrels hands. He
gave a little start of surprise. How
had she done it? The Mississippi,
calm, swift and deep, in all its potency
of motion; then for miles, bluff after
bluff pushing into the water, stern.
forbidding, yet lovely; the tenderness
of the blue sky; the softness of ragged
clouds; the
Elizabeth" said Darrell, and his
voice trembled little ct did not
know that you could do this. This is
better than Winston's best work"
Elizabeth. looked anxiously into his
face. do you think that ?" she said.
Darrell against studied the sketch.
''It is wonderful he said you have
told more in these few strong brush
strokes than 1 have in my whole book
Elizabeth wistfully, "how could you
understand so well?''
Elizabeth clasped her hands softly
In her lap. 30, but you see, I've read
the book and re-read it so was pre-
pared to sec all that you did, The
book was as-as fine and strong as you
are, Horace"
The man rose and walked back and
forth. elizabeth, can you ever for
give me for being such a fool as to
belittle your work? Why, do you
know, I admire Winston's work so
much that I was in the seventh heaven
when I found that could get him to
do. my illustrating and your work is
far and away better than his. He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-01

Look herel You advertised this auto
you sold me to go from four to sixty
miles an hour" Yves sir. That's right.
Fou. miles up hills and sixty down.
Lie. -L..-. =
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1907-02-28
aeropins gPo,st,.ter,s.

9brib. - Die Qeide bes O6erz
aijiftenten Rode, Der Elm Opfer be-
flirhtbaren giienbabnungliids Bel
Ottersbera tprroe, lit nah bier iiberz
fiibrt tporben.
5ninemiinoe. il Die 01eb.
!aff'fden Ghelcute bier feierten ibrs
aDlbene 6oh5eit. Sbnen 1puroe bas
iiNife 9elogefhent bon so Marf
iberreiht.
uedermiinoe. Gier ion fir
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1907-02-28
9eropin3 Sa&fem nmo E9arimsen.

6eiligsnitaot. = Oie bieiigs
Gtraffammer berurtbeilte oen &auf=
mann Otto Eteamann, Der als Gumz
Galter Ser Isut1hen Galitperfe in
Nernterooe $1,000 M. unter19lagen
bate, I'm bulnit @erlu5te our6 Gpes
tulationen, ois Ser Mnsetlaste in aus=
gebe6ntem MaBe betrteb, su oeten,
resen llntsridlasuns, 8etrug unb
l!rtunbenfdlIhnng gu 1 Sabr 9 Mo=
raten @efdnsnib.
So6enmDlien. Ser LAMB
tpirtbl9aftGfS 8erein fonnte Ser Bez
bieniteten Gina 6i0er=M =Mutf9au, bic
So Sabre binbur9 ununterbroden in
einem Dienite febt, fir lire bttpie1enc
Greue 6as Diplom unb 1therne Gbe
renfreu3 Der 2an0tpirtbihaftsfammer
at 6alle iiberrsihen. Qln Die Stelle
0es bisberigen 0oriibenoen, @utsbes
User 2Dren5r r0eumsll, 1T Mmtmann
GnengrGber.G G5tbeipiB getreten.
Elein= Gorgau,- Dor Rur=
3em entitunb in Dem @eb0ft 6es 6iif=
ners @uitan 2ubmann bier sSeuer.
noourd 6as Dobnbaus, Elm 6tals
gebGnbs unD 0ic Sheune Elm Maub Der
sslammen tp,lroen. Die Gntftebunas=
urfahe fonnte bisber nisbt ermitfelt
tptrben.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1907-02-28
4oniSrei@ 3eier,..

M il n n9en. 0or Ruraem 1T
9ier Ser Oberitactsanipalt a. .. Dr.
Moalbert Sitter b. @eib, II Sabre
alt, geiforben, her aulebt bon 1896
Gis 1901 am bteiigen @ertpdltungsr
geri9tsbofe tbGtig getpefen 1T. na1=
Gem ersfriiber fhDn eine Meir bon
Iabren bemielben @eri9tsbofe aIs
Ndth angebDrt bate. Or. pb.
GriebriG bot iid ais !briRatboaent fir
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
MAKE STEEL IN INDIA
Ulp Peruna q Tonic of
Great Usefulness
S10,0oo,oo0 PLANT TO BE BUILT By
AMERICANS.
Works viii Prove Most Formidable Riva
for Trust and Japanese and Euro
pean Industries.

NEW YORK. Nov. 1S.-Americans
have obtained the contract for the de
signing and engineering work for one
of the largest iron and steel plants ever
built outside of the United States This
plants, which will cost nearly $4,000.
600 is to be located in British India.
where it is estimated that the cost OF
production of various iron and stee
products will be less than one-half thai
of the most favored American Ster
making concerns.
This will eventually mean that besides
making India independent of outSid,
supplies of rails, etc. the projected
works will prove most formidable com.
petitors, with not only American. Euro
pean and Japanese steel interests.
The contract has been awarded to Ju.
liam Kennedy, Sahlien 4 Co., Limited.
of London. which was incorporated
about three years ago for the purpose
of operating on American lines British
iron and steel plants. The company is
composed of Julian Kennedy. the Pitts
burg blast furnace expert, and ANel Sab
lien, who was trained at one of the
plants of the Maryland Steel company
MIR. Sahlien is now here TO make ar
engagements for the placing of contracts
for equipment to be installed in the In
dian works.
The name of the new concern is the
Iata Iron and Steel company.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
WILL0F BANKER BARNEY
DICTATES IT BEFORE SURGEONS
BEGIN THEIR WORK.
Most of Suicides Property Goes to Wild
oW-Deathbed Scene Is
Dramatic.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1G.-CharIes T.
Barney, former head of the Kniclzer
booker Trust company, who shot him
self in his home at Park avenue and
Thirty-eighth street Thursday morning,
made his will while he still was CON
scious after the shooting, and before the
operation was performed by the doctors
IN an effort to save his life. BY this
will his widow gets what remains of
his fortune after all his obligations have
been paid. According to Il statement
made by his lawyers, this ought to
amount to $2,JOO,O 600
For nearly an hour and half follow
ing the shooting, while he was suffering
intensely, Mr. Barney talked with his
lawyers about his affairs, signed many
important papers, told of the will he
wanted to make, and finally, when this
had been drawn up by the lawyers at
his bedside, he affixed his name to it
and saw it witnessed. Not until all this
had been attended to did the doctors adj
minister an anesthetic. He died on the
operating table.
1T was the act of brave man." said
one Of the lawyers today in commenting
upon the case.
Mr. Barney was insured in the Nu-
tual Life for 100000 1t is q twenty
year policy, and under it's terms if the
holder died within the twenty year pc
Tiod he received not only the face policy
but the total of the premiums paid up
to his death. On this policy the benc-
fciary, who is said to be his wife, will
receive S13G,O0O This is not subject to
any creditors claims
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
LEWIS PLEADS TO JURY
MISSOURI BANKER TELLS OF HIS
SCHEME FOR FARMERS.
On Trial for Fraud, He Says Every Insti-
tuition Stopped When His
Mail Did

ST LOUIS, No, Nov. 1S.-Edward
district court on the charge of having
used the mails to defraud in organizing
and promoting the Peoples United
States bank, took the witness stand in
his own behalf today. In a low tone he
dramatically told the jury how he came
to organize the bank and asserted the
institution was founded for the benefit
Of the farmers Of the country, and that
he had first submitted plans for the bank
to St. Louis business men.
When Lewis took the stand he said he
is IS years Of age, and mayor Of Uni
versity city, st. Louis county, and JUS
tice q the peace there.
He said the plan Of the bank first Oc-
CURED 10 him early in 1902. He said
that owing to rural subscribers to his
publication he came especially in touch
with rural business. This led him to
form the project to establish Il bank Of
and for that class of people. He said
everything he had III the world into stock
as fast as he could when his bank was
closed by the DEPARTING r.
practically every institution i'll which
am or have been interested or connect
ed with has been paralyZed," Lewis tes-
tilted. Il was absolutely isolated from
the world, and my enterprises Were an
initiated. | could not even get q let
ter from my wife or mother"
There was a lively tilt between cOun-
sci on both sides several times, but Lew
is was allowed TO tell his story.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
WILL TALK WITH MARS.
Nikola Tesla Plans Wireless to Planet,
Using Niagara Falls as Power
Force.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Nickola les
la announces that with the cooperation
of power-producing companies at Niaga-
"a Falls, he is preparing to hail Mars
with Niagara's voice. A way has been
found at last for transmitting a wireless
message across the gulf varying from
100000 to 100,00O.00O miles, which
separates this earth from Mars.
Once that has been accomplished and
Mars. which is considerably older and
supposedly more advanced i'll science
than we, has acknowledged the receipt
of our signal and sent back flash for
flash. it will remain to devise an inter
planetary code through the medium of
which the scientists of this world and of
Mars will be able to understand what
each is saying to the other.
Mr.. Tesla has been quietly working
for several years on Il wireless power
plant capable of transmitting 10000
horsepower to any part of the world or
to any of our neighboring planets. The
mere matter of distance between dis
patching and receiving points is no OBJ
ject whatever. Wireless power, Mr..
Tesla says, may be sent 100000 or
more miles jusI as easily as one mile.
Several of the electric power companies
with immense generating plants at Nj
agara Falls have agreed to cooperate
with Mr.. Tesla in an effort to reach
Mars by wireless.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
LINER MAURITANIA
SAILS FOR AMERICA.
Speed Crown of the SeaS-To
Probably Break Record.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1G.-The mag
nihcent new Cunard liner Mauretania.
the largest and III many respects the
most marvellous ship ever built sailed out
from this port today on her maiden yoy-
age to New York. The event was Il not
able one The big ship, which is a tri-
umph of marine architecture sailed
gracefully down the Merscy, carrying u
full complement of passengers and Il
large consignment Of specie. Cheers from
large crowd gave the vessel an enthusi-
astic bon voyage as she proceeded
down stream.
1t is an open secret that her builders
and the Cunard line officials expect more
from the Mauretania than from the Lusi-
tania. The successful preliminary trials
In which she attained an average speed
of 25.99 knots, and Il maximum of 26.4
without undue pressure, gives strength
to the supposition that the optimism is
not misplaced. The Lusitania, under sim
liar conditions. did half knot less.
The Mauretunia is 800 tons more
register than her sister ship, and her in
terror decorations cost the Cunard com
pany 100000 more than those on the
Iusitania- The electrical equipment
dwarfs anything that has previously been
attempted in this direction on ocean
liners. The generating plant has n total
capacity of 200O-horsepOwer-co consider
ably more than is required for a good
sized city.
The Mauretania carried about 1000
passengers, Il record number for a west
ward passage in mid-November, but even
then all her berths will not be filled
The amount of gold she will bring here
adds vet more interest to the voyage
which is about $13.o00,OOO, mainly in
gold bars.
The Cunard company has insured the
Mauretania for nearly 100000
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
WOUNDS DAUGHTER; KILLS SELF.
California Capitalist Tries to Murder and
Then Commits Suicide.

SANTA CRUZ, Cal, Nov 1S.-NIaj.
Frank Mclaughlin, a well known pOliti-
clan and mining promoter, shot and NOR
tally wounded his daughter Agnes. aged
81, and then prussc acid, which caused
his death within ten minutes. Financial
difficulties, which are thought to have
undermined his reason, caused the trag-
edy.
Mr. Mclaughlin was one OF the best
known men i'll California, and leader
of the Republican party. With Chief
Justice Beattie of the state supreme
court and Rev. Peter G. Yorke he acted
as arbitrator in the settlement between
the United Railways and their employees.
He was familiar figure at the national
capital.
temporarily as the result of financial
troubles during the last month or two,
Lucian Underwood, professor of botany
at Columbia university, New York. at
tempted to kill his entire family. and
after cutting his wife's throat ended his
own life. stabbing himself under the right
ear Mrs. Underwood struck the pro
fessOr's arm as he was about to stab his
daughter.
Going to another room the doctor cut
his throat. Prof Underwood was 10
years old.