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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-22
THREAT TO STRIKE .

Denver, Col. Oct. 22.-Unless the
DenVer q Rio Grande railroad Off
cials agree today to reinstate r. IT.
Skeggs as wire chief at Grand juno
uon, 400 telegraphers employed on
the Rio Grande lines will quit work
tonight. This ultimatum was sent to-
Gay TO the railroad officials by
President H. B. Perham and other of.
hcers of the Order of Railway Tele-
graphers. Skeggs was discharged a
month ago in consequence of his re-
rusal to test a Western Union wire
Wnen ordered to do SO by the railroad
superintendent of telegraph
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-22
A QUESTION OF SAND.
Figuratively and Materially, 1t Wins
Balloon Races.

st. Louis Oct. 22.-The basket or
car of the average balloon entered in
| the international race is 5 II feet long.
u feet wide and about as deep. Some
of them are slightly smaller, being
square. In this restricted space the
aeronaut lives during the timo he is
in the air, which may be five hours or
forty, and he has no opportunity to
get out and stretch his legs and no
deck to pace.
1t takes two men to run a racing
balloon, the pilot and the aid, and
both are kept busy from the time the
fiat upon the ground again where
chance and the vagranr winds have
carried it.
Illustrators love to depict the bal
loon as large pear shaped bag. hav-
ing a small railway passenger coach.
with all modern conveniences, at
tached to it by a network of fish lines.
As a matter of fact, 1T is a globe of
vanished cotton cloth to which hangs
a wicker basket about as big as a
clothes hamper and in this restricted
space two healthy men are expected
to live until their sand, actual and
figurative, gives out.
There are pictures, too. of a balloon
sailing through the air at night with
lamps lighted and aeronauts drinking
champagne and smoking cigars while
they cleave pathway through the
billowing clouds. In actual life. the
aeronaut who can carry the least
amount of useless weight and the
greatest number of sandbags is the
fellow who will win the race, for he
will go the farthest. So II Is that
sand wins.
OF course, it Is a matter Of judg-
ment and perhaps taste how much
baggage the pilot of a balloon will
carry with him. II he is an old timer
he will cut the nonessentials down to
almost nothing. The carrying ca
cording to the lifting power of the gas
with which 1t is inflated.
The coal gas used in the balloons in
the race today has lifting capacity Of
forty pounds to every 1000 cubic feet
which the balloon will hold, and
when the weight of the car, the rig
ging, the passengers and other neces-
sary things are deducted, not much
leeway is left for luxuries.
At this time of the year the atmos-
phere two miles above the earth be-
comes very cold at night, and one of
the essentials Is warm clothing. An
anchor, a drag rope and the various
instruments for recording meteorolog-
ical conditions are necessary. Waste
weight cannot be given over to un-
necessary comforts.
But the aeronaut must live even
while every spare pound Is put into
sand. He is traversing the illimitable
blue and even II he makes up his
mind to be ever so abstemious there
will be times when he must eat. 1t Is
in this question of food supply that
aeronauts differ. Your rough riding
sportsmen of the clouds will scorn the
luxuries and travel with light larder
while another may go in for food
galore which later he will be glad to
cast overheard.
For instance, when J. C. Mccoy sailed
away, his food supply would put an an
chorite to shame. In the pocket of his
coat he carried a few chocolate waters
and in one of the pockets attached to
the side of the car bottle holding
few quarts of spring water. From these
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-22
FAIR AND COOLER WEDNESDAY.
Gentle Breeze Which Neither Adds Nor
Detracts From the Temperature.

The mercury is rather high in the
tube for a day in October but the fore
cast indicates a drop tonight with fair
weather following tomorrow. The wind
is moving slowly from the west MAX
ing a rate of six miles an hour since
early morning. The figures which tell
of the temperatures of the day tabula-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-22
RUN ON THE KNICKERBoCKER.

Long Line of Depositors at All the
Conpany's Offices.
New York, Oct. 22.-There was
run of depositors to withdraw money
at the main office of the Knickerbocker
Trust company, when it opened for
business this morning, and also at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-22
weather Indications,

Chicago, Oct 22.-Forecast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Wednesday;
cooler tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-22

Continued on Page Eighty
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Chr Traurltttg puhltr
By w. j. HAMPTON.

cling mankind. Of the real traveller talk
He knows his and much home the road
he his vine and fig The travelling public is different
About this time of though prevails to extent during all
begins to fill the vacancies all of transportation
facilities evidence all hotels and about object sight
seeing interest.
Probably only week much spare it
that all it is worth With supreme confidence itself,
open spends all its ardeaned savings
quickly but with everlasting struggle net to cent
unless has its moneys worth 1t looks the WIDE wide world,
outside of its little circle organized band of skins and bucks
them without great fea but with doubt Everything
everything everything different everything delightful
Everything fresh and less 1t makes bluff
confidence anything along the with bayado
amusing when nsoen pfu 1t talks loud and laughs loud
the travelling public gets fun of life than
ubhuman organism has worked hard this
has been ooped the and this mitabe it
this freedom has lived this
looked daily the DID, and this has saved and this is
spending it, has home long, and this getting
have good time.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Courtesy at Home.

We are all creatures Of habit,
men and women alike, and the habits
and surroundings Of daily life have
powerful influence on the character OF
both. The root Of all bad manners is
velfishness when self ever is first, fore
most consideration for others always
ags much in the rear, and drops SO
lar behind in time that 1t disappears
altogether. Zone cannot keep up the
ceremony and etiquette of society
when at home" True, for between
friends these can be laid aside. They
merely are the rivets that keep 30
Aety together. but not courtesy and
consideration. The latter ought to
be SO much the habit with each OF us
that 1t will become our second nature.
Ind therefore can be no more laid
aside than can an arm or leg.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
LIFE INSURANCE ACTIVITY.
The New York LIES Business Nearly
Up to the Legal Limit.

The New York Life Insurance Com
pany announces that its new paid
business during the half year just end
ed was over seventy million dollars.
As the new law allows no life COM
pany to write over one hundred and
fifty millions per year, 1t would ap-
pear that this company is working
nearly up to the limit. The New
York Life gained such Roadway be-
tore the law was passed and suffered
10 little, comparatively, from the Arm
strong investigation, that the question
with its management has been how to
keep business down to the limit, rath-
err than how to reach 1t. No other
company is writing nearly as much
as the law allows. The New York
Life has evidently become pre-
terred company.
The company's payments to policy
holders during the six months end
Ing June 80 were $21,66O,761. 1t is
interesting to note that this amount
was almost equally divided between
payments under policies maturing by
death and payments made to living
policy holders. Thus, while death
claims were 81, 1SO.626, the amount
paid for matured endowments, annu-
tiles, trust fund installments, for pur-
chased policies and for dividends was
10.4S0,135. Modern life insurance, as
practiced by the best companies, en-
braces a wide field, and covers many
contingencies. 1t is money saved for
the aged. as well as money provided
Tor the families Of those who die pre-.
matureiy
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01

So many school children have been
found with defective eyesight that the
school committees of several cities
have considered furnishing eyeglasses
free. 1t is question how far govern
ment should go in supplying citizens
with the necessary things Of life.
Most American parents will prefer to
pay the oculist. In many cities are
free dispensaries where poor children
can be treated and receive free pre-
tscriptions for glasses. Parents should
Do warned against incompetent ocu-
lists who take advantage Of the re-
ports of the boards Of education on
tho matter Of eyesight in the schools,
and try to get business for themselves
by exaggerated warnings to the par
Ants of school children threatened
with blindness"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
MEAT OR CEREALS.
A Question Of Interest to All Care
full Persons.

Arguments on food are interesting.
Many persons adopt vegetarian diet
on the ground that they do not like to
them, nor do they fancy the thought
Of eating dead meat.
| On the other hand, too great con-
sumption of partly cooked, starchy
oats and wheat or white bread. pastry.
etc., produces serious bowel troubles,
because the bowel digestive organs
| (where starch is digested), are over
taxed and the food ferments. produc-
Ing gas, and microbes generate in the
decayed food, frequently bringing on
peritonitis and appendicitis.
Starchy food is absolutely essential
to the human body. Its best form is
shown in the food 'Grape-Nuts," where
the starch is changed into form of
sugar during the process Of its manu-
facture. In this way, the required
food is presented to the system in a
pre-digested form and is Immediately
made into blood and tissue, without
taxing the digestive organs.
A remarkable result in nourishment
Is obtained; the person using Grape
Nuts gains quickly IN physical and
mental strength. Why in mental?
Because the food contains delicate
particles Of Phosphate Of Potash OBJ
tanned from the grains, and this unites
with the albumen OF all food and the
combination is what nature uses to re-
build worn out cells in the brain.
This Is scientifi; fact that can be
easily proven by ten days use of
Grape.Nuts. THERE'S Reason"
Read, 1.-THE RoaI to MELVILLE" In
pkgs.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01

Earthquake shocks were felt in four
continents in the six days between
April IA and 10. They began with de-
structive shocks in Mexico by which
three towns were ruined. Then Spain,
Russian Transcaucasia and CONSTANT
nople felt the tremors, and there were
shocks at Manila and Charleston. and
volcanic eruptions accompanied by
earthquakes manifested themselves in
Chile. 1t is interesting to note, says
Youths Companion, that these shocks.
with the exception of the one at
Charleston, occurred in the recognized
earthquake belts. one of which encir-
cles the Pacific ocean, and the other
goes about the earth by way Of Mexi-
CO. the West Indies, Spain, Italy, the
Caucasus, northern India, the Philip
pines and the Pacific islands.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Coeduc alton.

All institutions which have been es-
tablished by the state for higher edu-
cation should provide for the educa-
ton of both men and women, and it is
decided gain to have this work done
by one institution rather than by two
and there is no serious objection to
the education of men and women in
the same institution that has been es-
tablished for both, says Cyrus Nor
thrup, president of the University of
Minnesota, in Golfers. The boys and
girls grow up together in the same
family; they go together to the same
graded school; they go together to the
same high school; they go together to
the university, and coeducation in the
university does not seem to any Of
them any more strange or unnatural
than coeducation in the lower schools
has seemed strange. So far as the in
duence OF the men upon the women,
or the women upon the men. is con.
cerned. am quite certain that the
result in general is good. The men
are made more gentlemanly, and the
women, while having all the frankness
and freedom OF the home life and the
school life, never lose the refinement
which belongs to them as women.
have no sympathy whatever with the
what shalb-I call it?-sentimentality
which seeks to segregate the women
and shut them In by themselves in
the wofh of education.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
The Mikado as a Poet.


Great as is the position won for
himself by Mutsu Hito in the litera
ture of his country, it must be
avowed that his poetry, from the
point of view of the west, is second
rate, says Current Literature. In the
original 1t is comparable only, affirm
native critics, with perfume from the
trees. A striking feature Of what
tty on the subject-terms these Lilli-
putian odes is. he thinks, their "ellip-
tical terseness of style" Hence, Mutsu
Hito's poetry lacks quantity. accent,
tone, rhyme, and all the incidents to
prosody. His majestys stanzas are
made up of five and seven syllable
lines alternating unless some patri.
otto frenzy agitates his muse. His
genius is grave in the ode. gay in the
stanza, enabling him to perform with
out adventitious aid all the functions
OF the court poet. Thus, when lady
in the diplomatic circle was returning
to her native land, and received in
consequence the unprecedented honor
of visit from the empress, a royal
stanza embellished the parting. 1.-The
gray goose" ran the verse, lis flying
westward" The departing lady's
white hair was symbolized by that
bird to which Japanese artists are SO
partial the goose itself being en-
blematic in the native poetical mind
of feminine loneliness in its most raw
fishing aspects. The Japanese pretti-
ness of the thing is quite sacrificed in
our rugged phraseology. Mutsu Hito's
poetical fame is, therefore. strictly ma
tional.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Modesty Of True Greatness.

Abou Ben Adhem had Just found
but that his name led all the rest.
STILL" he observed, with modesty
IS rare as IT was charming, 'the sea-
son is young yet. I've made few
lucky hits, it's true. but Just as likely
as not shall be at the bottom of the
percentage column in batting before
the season ends" Smilingly accept
Ing the bouquet of cut flowers sent to
him by an admirer in the grandstand.
be stepped up to the plate. struck
put, lodged lemon thrown at him
by disguised bleacherite, and went
and took his seat on the bench.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01

psychic epilepsy" has succeeded
Drain storm as medical term. A New
York physician has just been cleared
OF the charge Of brutally assaulting a
man and woman on the street on the
plea that he had been subject to at
tacks of psychic epilepsy from child
hood. and that on recovery he had no
knowledge Of what had occurred. Just
how tho ailment differs from ordinary
epilepsy is not made clear. but 1t will
undoubtedly prove to be a convenient
malady In criminal procedure
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01

pursuit of a livelihood.
which barely sustains life the least able
his children those educational advantages contemplated
weorganized community Frequently the limitations of his child
hood rendered him incapable approaching those opportunities and
honesty independence lead him to thrust
industry earliest possible moment This find
notably among foreign that settling large
n ouri industrial
The general attitude community toward education directly
children industry Where the largest
ceage young the least the
the adjustment of educational institutions
Obviously majority of children destined to their
living OF what neepoduclve manual labor
directly the majority OF its rather than bending
chief attempt pick out of 100 children the child who
may college president captain of industry schools will
add UNNECESSARILY the wealth and joy of the majority at the
rendering the future genius who believed to
scoooom Many children taught the lore of
chvy the middle and the
community why they dominant, and whether there
would be advantage making change how much they taught of
this? The industry simply gu generation
after generation the people, principally because they that
Offering themselves
the mill
Our progress involves the hand such restrictive laws shall
entirely prohibit the little child from the fields of industry and bring him
within the of the school, and the other hand educational
which will afford such occupation and relaxation that the child
will school education which the child for
seupporng industry education which the will recognize
preparation higher earning which will inspire him with SUI
patience the panc to-day for the higher rewards of
This programme will be opposed by the and need
very people from such reform greatest, but
intelligence and industrial efficiency constitutes the foundation of
democracy, musv be willing to pay the price
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Mdhy @nr mnnta1t
ma1tta tn nntr
By LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE.
President New York City Mother Club.

women wouldn't do how frespectng
against injustice 1t intolerabe that
of life should
instead of helped
childhood will live wrongs
many rghed but until
they will have the for protecting themselves Of
all perfect beings might not be necessary but
living millennium the pretend
In the four states where do vote they better protected
the brutality and greed of than anywhere else.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Unklnd Advice.

Two Irishmen were eating Their
lunch, when one asked the other:
Pat, an what be you thinking about?"
Pat replied: "Shure, Mike, was a.
thinking how l would be getting me
clothes over me wings when would
get to heaven"
you would better be thinking how
vou would be getting your hat over
your horns when you get to the other
place." answered Mike.-Ally Sloper.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
senerous MIR. Kraft.

'Mr. Kraft, the merchant said tho
college president. has offered to do
nate $4,000 for new building to DO
known as Kraft hall.
But" said the dean of the facul-
~, $"s5,ooO won't pay for the build
ing we want"
"Oh! no. You see, Mr.. krafts gen.
erous offer is contingent upon our Sc
curing donations Of $4,000 each from
ten c--S>er public-spirited citizens.
Philadelphia Press.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
Leaves Fortune to Nurse.

Glenwood Springs, Colo.-Franl
Burcham, sixty-six years old. died here
of paralysis. He was one of the first
settlers in Glenwood Springs and was
engaged in the stone mason business
He was worth about $4,000, all OF
which he bequeathed to Miss Title
Englebrecht professional nurse. who
has taken care of him during the past
year. during which he has been help
less
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01

l wish to vote because I
am neither a criminal, q
pauper nor an idiot, and
until men give me the
ballot | am ranked with
these obnoxious classes Of
society. You would think
that chivalry alone would
make men hasten to re-
move this stigma from
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01

The human race is di.
vided into those who
travel and those who do
not, and a further divi-
sion of the former branch
gives us real travellers
and the travelling public,
thus making of the trav-
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
CTR prnhlrm nf Chilli Eahnr
attn JttA1Htrtal EAl1rattutt
By OWEN R. LovEJoY.

REATURE labor robs the child of the years and opportunity
for education He enters industry too younto undertake the
intricate and rewadng forms of labor In default of
anything in modern industry which be dgned by the
term apprenticeship he kept for several years upon some
simple task which frequently calls into requstion but few
muscles and offers technical development report recently
work at IL IA years of compared with who
mains in school until 16 permanently handicapped in the
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
THE NEW ERA

WALDEN, COLORADO
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-12
A Curious Bird Miataka.

Many birds fcequenting flowers for
honey or Insects are thus liable to get
their heads covered with pollen. And
since tue pollen Of Inherent flowers
varies in color, bird may become yell
low headed rcd headed, blue headed.
etc. says the. london Globe. This led
to a curious mistake in the case of a
New Zealand bird. This bird was a
honey sucker and a haunter Of flowers.
Now, IN the early summer 1t visited
most frequently the flowers of the ma
tive FAX and later in the year fed chief
~ on the fuchsia. The pollen of the
former il red and Of the latter blue:
hence In the early summer the bird ap-
peared with a red head and was nam
ed the red headed honey sucker. But
when later in the year It went 10 the
fuchsia its head was stained blue. and
1t was called the blue headed honey
sucker. Thus. for long time this bird
was thought to be two distinct species
and only recently was it found that the
red headed and the blue headed were
one and the same and that the real
solor Of the head was blackish brown.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-12
Mainwright's
Experiment.
BY Constance darcy
Mackay.
COPYRIGHT, 1901. b n. n. Cunningham.

1t was noon. The July sun blnzed
down over the haydelds ana fickered
across the group OF men who lolled be-
meath the trees enjoying their first rest
after morning of toll. Wainwright
sat little apart from the others and
mopped his forehead The muscles Of
his arms and shoulders ached from un-
accustomed labor. Yet as he looked at
the close cut field his feeling was one
Of pleasure.
Two months before as assistant pro
fessor Of political economy In an east.
ern college he had longed to put GER
tain problems to the test. 10 learn from
actual experience those things which
other men we're content TO take from
the text books. So while his brother
professors spent their vacations In Eu.
rope or at the seashore wainwright
tramped the highways Of New Eng
land, knapsacli ON back and notebook
In hand Routine and conventEonallty
Were forgotten. And so much is man a
part of his mode of living that after
his first two weeks on the road not one
OF Wainwrlsht's old confreres would
have recognized him. His clothes had
lost their hall marks OF good tailoring
and become frayed and dusty His
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-12

AT lOC IAN SG6i' oGbstabtIpkET
then you can easily see why We
are having such success selling
GAS AND PLUMBING GOODS.
There isn't any secret about our
success. There. can't be any sec
ret about what everybody knows.
What we sell and what we sell It
for has leaked 'out, and: everybody
knows 1t. You can't make a mis-
take when you buy and get your
work done at our place.
EUREKA PEEsIBTNG CO.,
A. S. Gould, Owner.
43S Pike ST.. Payne Bldg.
Home phone SO. Bell phone saw
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-12
,BALnMORE&OmG
RAILROAD.

Schedule elective Nov. IS. 1seG
CIaARXSHuG1, ". VA.
: Daily. Daily except Sunday.
= Sunday only.
1GAfN Lm1, EAsTBouND.
rgmbsrlaad. washIngton. HaiismoEs
s5:b2 am. s5:ss pm, 1885 pm.
Arrive ti2:S3 am, sS;bE = N, s4:4t
uEsssoa Accom-, Depart s1S:ss am,
x7:A7 pm. Arrive s7:2s AM 11:1b
HAIH LnlH, wH81BouHD.
PaEESrsbuTg' Sirstanata 4, Lcuisyane s aRs
: .s!ss i pa.. I PAS p. AEF''' '';sa an
Parkeraburg Accom- Depart s7:9S am.
xS:3S pm. Arrive. 'I0;aO am, x7:V.
pm, zS:45 pm
N. va. 3 PITTS, MoRrKBouHD.
connol1gvtIle and Rttt1bufG, Depart
x6:1b q m. xl0:S0 q N. Arrive x1;1e
.I pm; ai1:S ssd Pm s1orr.n.ovu, p.p.r,
xs:15 a m, x10:S0 am, x3:0o pm
Z7.0B D. m. Arrive x8:4o am, E1:zk
am. xa:10 pm, x11:06 pm.
W. va. o PITTS, souTHBouND.
Weston, Depart x6:00 am, x10:30 am.
xl1:26 AM. Arrive xe:iSN ana, x8:SS
an, x2:16 pm, x:7:0b pm.
sieksnS, Depart xe:0o AK, x4:1s Pa
Arrive 1S:65 am, x1;os pm.
part 1890 am, x11:2b am. Arrive
x2:15 pm, x7:06 pm.
Webster Springs, Depart xl1:26 am
Arrive x2:00 pm.
WEST Va. SHORT LINZ.
new Mart1nsvtlle and WhealinG Accom-.
Depart '6:1b am, Sz.4b pm. ArriS'
x11:26 am. sB:lb D.R