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Free press., 1907-03-23
RICHEST WOMAN IN BRITAIN.
Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot of Wales
Has Distinction.

1t will probably surprise most peo-
pie to learn that at the present mo-
ment the wealthiest British woman
living is a Welshwoman; more, that
she is single. Miss Emily Charlotte
Talbot was one of the three children
of Mr.. Christopher Talbot, a popular
NJ p of the mid-Victorian era The
only son died in early youth, and Miss
Talbot's sister. somewhat younger
than herself, became the wife, just 40
years ago, of Mr.. Fletcher of Saltoun
Miss Talbot remained at home, keep
ing house for her father at beautiful
Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire, and
on his death, which took place some
16 years ago. his devoted elder daugh-
ter found herself left his sole execu-
trix, and owner of all the Talbot real
estate, valued at about a million and
half sterling, as also of reversion-
ary interest in a huge trust fund in
consols.
Free press., 1907-03-23
SEE WHAT YOU BUY
DO NOT TAKE THE CATALOGUE
STATEMENT FOR 1T.
CASE OF A MAIL-ORDER BUGGY
The Purchaser Was Ashamed to Use
1t and Sold 1t to His Hired
Man-It Pays to Buy
at Home

Copyright, by Alfred c. Clark)
The East End of London is an ex-
ample of what the city does for hu-
manity in creating poverty, misery,
disease, drunkenness and crime. JEFF
ferson was right when he said: Great
cities are great sores upon the body
polite" Is it any wonder that lovers
of their kind are horror-stricken at
the grinding of these gigantic mills
whose grist is the bodies and souls of
men?
But there is another movement con-
nected with this current setting city
ward which. like it, is full of grave
menaee to the welfare of humanity.
This is the dry rot now invading thou
sands OF villages and towns 1t is not
lack of capital or business energy in
the towns, or discrimination in
freights or exhaustion of the soil in
the surrounding country that is bring
ing about this change, but a new and
dangerous form of competition, and
the caprices of those who buy. Go
into these towns and you will find
them at standstin or going back
ward. Inquire of their business men
or commercial travellers and you will
learn that business is not as good as
formerly and that the prospect is for
4 continued shrinkage in trade An
observant commercial traveller said
to the writer: Il believe the day of
the village and town is over. The big
fish are everywhere eating up the lit
tie fish. A few small lines of business
that cannot be done by mail, such as
Free press., 1907-03-23
SCIATIC TORTURE
A Locomotive Engineer Tells How,
He Was Cured by DR.. Williams
Pink Pills.

Pain that seems almost unbearable
is Characteristic of sciatic rheuma-
tism. In some cases the pain ia
knife-like. sharp or shooting; in 9th.
ers it is dull and aching. Sciatica
is stubborn in resisting treatment and
the patient frequently suffers for
years. This was the case with Mr..
Herbert E. Spaulding. locomotive
engineer on the Cincinnati, New Or
leans & Texas Pacific Railway, whose
home is at Longview, Texas.
While running an engine some
years ago., he says, 81 fell OF and
hurt my knee and spine and l have
always considered this to be the cause
of my illness. Tae sciatica took hold
of me from my heel to the back of
my head. The pain was the worst
ever suffered in my life and my leg
and back were twisted out of shape.
l was under physicians care for
several months and for six months
could not get out of bed. also went
TO Hot Springs but came back in a
worse condition than when / went.
1t was when I was down in be6
that | heard of the case of a Mr.,
Allison. much older man than N.Y.
self. who mad been cured of sciatica
by DR.. Williams Pink Pills. / began
taking the pills and soon was able to
get out of bed. When 1 had taken
six boxes I was able to work about
the house and yard kept right
on with the pills until I was cured
and 1 have never had any. return OF
the trouble. I have been running an
engine ever since''
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or sent postpaid. on re-
ceipt of price, so cents per box. six
boxes for $3.50. by the DIR. Williams
Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y.
Free press., 1907-03-23

barbering, blacksmithing or the Serv
ing of soft drinks and ice cream may
survive, but such lines of trade can
not sustain a decent town. The
cause of this widespread loss of busi-
ness is the aggressive and destructive
competition of the catalogue houses
in the big cities. 1t has been possible
for 40 years or more to buy of some
houses in the cities, if one felt that
the merchants of his town were ex
acting too much profit, but this effort
Of the mail order houses to cut the
retailer altogether is a new thing, the
growth of the past few years. Start
ing with a few lines of trade, this
form of competition has come to cover
almost everything that can be sold in
a country town and it is even asserted
that a savings bank department is to
be added by one of the catalogue
houses.
The claim that the mail order
houses of Chicago are doing an an
nual business of over 5000, 100000 may
seem large, but one house alone has
sold goods to the amount of $29 0O0,-
600 in the past six months and is now
incubating a new plan to increase its
enormous business by selling shares
of stock to thousands of people in the
hope of making them regular Gus
toners.
The skillfully worGed advertisement
and the big catalogue. with its pic
lures of articles in hundred lines of
trade, are very alluring to buyers,
most of whom are not familiar with
prices and qualities. Some of the
articles below the usual prices are of
an inferior quality, while the average
price is usually fully up to what would
be paid to the home dealer. AS was
shown last winter in a speech in con-
gTess, articles for the mail order trade
are often misbranded at the request
OF the mail order people with delib-
crate intent to deceive. One of the
Instances given by this congressman
was of some thousands of finger rings
stamped fourteen carats" when they
were in reality only ten.
The buyer who orders from his
catalogue, or from an advertisement,
does not see the articles till they
come and is often disappointed in the
quality of the most of them, but there
is no redress as there would be if he
bought at home. He does not like to
own that he is disappointed, so ne
makes the best of it and tries to per-
suade himself that he has saved
money. In many instances he is not
we'll enough informed in values to
know that he could have bought as
che2ply and selected much more sat
isfactorily. at home. On rural route
with which l am familiar and over
which most of the. incoming letters
are from mail order houses and the
outgoing ones carry back money or
iers. lives friend of mine who
bought watch from the catalogue at
what he considered rare bargain.
The watch came. 10 be sure. but it did !
not go. that is al the righT speed, |
and although money enough was
spent on it to bring the price up 10 /
a good figure, it was no better as |
Free press., 1907-03-23

The way to keep children In school
is to make the school the most valua-
BILE place to them. The school must
be made attractive We must change
front and recognize that the school
room is made for the child and not
for the teacher. At present only the
appurtenances of the teacher are
placed in it and whatever may be
done for the children is done only be-
cause the teachers interest can best
be served by such. The schoolroom
must be made for children, declares
Arena. AS the business room is made
attractive and fixed up for customers
and whatever is done for the salespeo-
pie is done only because thereby the
best interests of customers can be
cared for, so in the schoolroom the
interests of the children must be con-
suited and those things done for chill
dren which will make the schoolroom,
next to the home, the most attractive
place.
Free press., 1907-03-23

tfmekeeper than that famous watch
OF Capt. Cuttle's- Another friend
bought a buggy at $34 and was eIated
over his purchase until it came and
he saw that the top was a very ordin-
ary article of oil cloth, instead of
leather. and he was so ashamed of it
that he sold it at a loss to his hired
man and bought a better one in a
nefghboring town. A lady and her
two daughters bought shoes from the
catalogue and when asked why they
had trouble with their feet said it was
because of ill-ftting shoes. But such
instances of the bad effects of buy
ing "sight unseen" are daily occurring
all over the country. 1t is only natur-
al and inevitable that such things
should happen.
Let us see what will be the effect
of this formidable diversion of trade,
If carried to its logical conclusion.
Nearly all the business houses of the
smaller towns will become bankrupt,
the value of town property will de-
cline, churches and schools will re-
ceive a feeble support and the towns,
instead of being centers of business
and social activity, will almost cease
to exist. The country in general will
become like many portions Of the
south where the large plantations, by
getting their supplies in the cities,
have kept the neighboring towns
down to the crossroads type-dreary,
unpainted little places of a half dozen
ramshackle houses. The evil effects
of this loss of trade and destruction
of the value Of town property will re-
act upon the value of farm property
by cutting off the home market They
will add to the taxes on lands by re-
ducing taxable values in the towns.
Surely it is not to the interest of any
body, except the bloated corporations
carrying on the mail order business,
to see the towns and villages fall into
decay. A live town is not only of
value to the lands surrounding it, but
its well stocked business houses are
a convenience and a benefit to the
buyer. Even if money could, in the
long run, be saved by ordering every
thing from the city, the inconvenience
Free press., 1907-03-23

The windfall of penencence to
American education naturally arouses
something akin to- envy on the part
of foreign institutions which are not
SO well favored by private munifi-
cence. The duke of Devonshire, chan
cellor of Cambridge university, issues
an appeal for $7,5OO,O0O. which he
says is sorely needed. British news
papers support the appeal, and in
articles on the subject allude to the
poverty of English colleges and the
splendid gifts of Americans, and also
lament the Indifference of English
men of wealth. This is matter re-
garding which outsiders should hesi-
tate to comment. But it is not
wholly out of order to note that some
of the largest benefactions to educa-
ton and charity in the United King
dom have come from American citi-
zens.
Free press., 1907-03-23

If anyone imagines that railroad
expansion in this country has reached
its limit. or that there is any sign of
n check upon American industrial
growth, he should not summon James
}. Hill as a witness to support his
pessimistic contention. Mr. Hill. one
OF the foremost railroad men of the
age, is out with a declaration that the
congestion OF traffic is so great from
one end of the union to the other
that the only certain way out is to
construct new track on an enormous
scale. He says $500. 900, 600 could
be spent to advantage for this pur-
pose alone. Add to this the cost of
a corresponding equipment, and one
may form some conception of the
public need as seen by this keen and
practiced observer.
Free press., 1907-03-23

Laundry work at home would bG
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use SO much starch that the
beauty and fneness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness. which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality Of the goods This trouble
can be entirely overcome by using De-
6ance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of it's great
er strength than other makes.
Free press., 1907-03-23
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

Topeka, Kans., March II. The
executive and judicial appropriation
bill which has been causing trouble
in the legislature for three or four
days and which was responsible for
the recalling of fifty of the MEM
bers who started 10 their homes
Saturday went through both
branches this afternoon by com
promise. The bill passed the senate
by vote of so to 0 and the house
by vote Of So to O. The compro-
mise on the measure was reached
in conference. BY this agreement
the board of railroad commissioners
will be given $25, 900 with which co
make an investigation of passenger
and freight conditions and TO make
reduction in such rates as are ex-
cessive. The attorney for the board
is allowed an appropriation of
$4,000 to prosecute tho work of
his department. the attorney gener-
al is furnished with contingent
fund of $4,000 to be used in inves-
tigating the trusts and to prose
cute offenders of the state antitrust
law
Despite the protests the house TO.
day passed the senate 2-cent pas
senger fare bill by a vote of 25 to
y. The bill does not make a fat re-
duction Of passenger rates to
cents a mile, but provides for a re-
duction to that amount in case the
passenger purchases mileage books.
The passenger may purchase :: book
for 500 miles travel on any one
railroad, or if he expects TO travel
2,000 miles during a year he may
purchase an interchangeable book
good on all of the railroads OF the
state. The 500 mile book is 10 be
good on the road issuing and selling
it and the price will be $40. or
straight cents a mile. The 1000
mile book will sell for $4I.50 or a
trifie more than 2 cents a mile
All efforts to pass the primary
election bill were without avail and
the bill died.
Free press., 1907-03-23

and uncertainty of it would always
make such shopping unsatisfactory.
Ordering from a catalogue is a leap
in the dark, except in the case of a
few articles whose color, shape and
quality are always the same.
To the man who can soberly look
on both sides of the question and who
can put himself in the place of the
other fellow the query will come:
Is it best from mere whim, or even
for certainty of saving from one to
half dozen dollars in year to turn
my back on the old, convenient ways
of doing business, and to do my part
toward running the business of my
old acquaintances and friends, and of
destroying the value of property in
the town where my friends live?
MVTI
Free press., 1907-03-23
Hays City Free Press
II. c. Frsese. Ed. & Pub.
HAYS CITY, KANSAS.
Good Roads.


The good cause of highway I'm
provement is making steady advance
ment in this country, and still there is
room for more OF the same sort This
is big nation, with great territory,
and much of the land is comparatively
new to the business. But when a
state like our own votes $4,000, 900
for good roads and other states are
putting forth creditabIe efforts in the
same direction the ultimate result
must be satisfactory. And we need
not be above borrowing practical ideas
from other sources. American Con-
sui Hamm, writing from Hull, tells
OF the roads in that vicinity and what
the English do to keep their famous
highways in trim. For 1904 miles OF
road in Yorkshire last year the total
of $91O,750 was expended-$S32.5 80 per
mile. The consul adds: 1T is a rare
sight to see a rutty or muddy coun-
try road in this neighborhood Most
all OF them are macadamized, we'll
drained and kept in good repair. AS
consequence one horse can draw
load which would require two or
three horses over the usual country
road in America" That last sentence
speaks volume. Good roads, de-
clares the Troy IN. W Times, mean
economy because when they are fur
nished the wear and tear on horses
and vehicles are reduced by many per
cent. This is phase of the subject
which is not kept in view as promi-
nently as should be the case. The
owners of light pleasure rigs" and Of
automobiles are not the chief benefi-
ciaries of good roads. The greater
good is that which comes to the far
mer and teamster in lessening the
cost of hauling loads over the high
ways.
Free press., 1907-03-23
Didn't Suit Him.

People who patronize the cars run
ming out to Forest Hills are familiar
with Conductor Crowley, the man who
wears six service stripes on his
sleeve, says a writer in the Boston
Herald
On the afternoon of election day in
November one of his passengers was
an old man who had been imbibing
enough to make him go to sleep in the
corner of the car
Just before it reached Dudley street
the conductor announced with his
usual rich roll of the r, .sCir-r-cuit and
Guild"
Yer liar! It's John B. Moran. =
shouted the sleepy one, waking up
suddenly.
Free press., 1907-03-23
To Be RefiIled.

One of the suburbs of Chicago is the
site of well-known school of theol-
osy. from which go out each weekend
many members of the senior class to
try their voices as supplies"
A passenger on Monday morning
train was surprised at the number OF
them who got off at the station
What are all these chaps getting
# here?" he asked the brakeman.
"Them?" asked the brakeman. 20,
they're returned empties. for the col
Iege."-Youths Companion
Free press., 1907-03-23
Stood the Tesr

Ailcock's Plasters have successfully
stood the test OF sixty years use by
the public; their virtues have never
been equaled by the INSCRIPTIONS i'm
itators who have sought to trade upon
their reputation by making plasters
with holes in them. and claiming them
to be lust as good as Allcock's."
Allcock's plasters stand to-day In
dorsed by not only the highest medical
authorities. but by millions of grateful
patients who have proved their eff
cacy as household remedy.
Free press., 1907-03-23
New Metric Chart.

new metric chart representing
geographically measures of the inter
national metric system of weights and
measures has been prepared by the
bureau OF standards of the department
OF commerce and labor, and will be,
furnished free to any school teaching
the system.
Free press., 1907-03-23
Northern Democratic Senators.

After March 3 the only Democratic
senators, who do not represent south.
ern states, will be Newlands of Ne
vada and Teller of Colorado, and their
terms will expire in 1909 Newlands
is native of Mississippi, and is a
radical Democrat of the modern
school. Teller has been a Republican
most of his life.
Free press., 1907-03-23

Topeka, kans., March u. - The
house and senate chambers were de-
serted today. as were the Hobbies of
the hotels. The legislature OF 1907
practically closed last night. all that
remains to be done being the sign
ing of bills by the governor who will
then notify both branches of his
work by message. Sine die ad-
iournment Will be Thursday. Near
ly all of the members of both
houses have left the city for their
respective homes, only two or three
remaining in each house 70 receive
the governors message
The governor is busy going
through TIE different measures and
attaching his Official signature 70
them. He stated today that he
knew of no measure that he would
veto. However, he refused today 20
SIGN the flag bill which makes it
compulsory on the part Of all school
district authorities to erect flag
staff and maintain thereon an
American flag
This completes the work of the
legislature, which will remain in
session until Thursday to give the
governor time to consider the bills
passed and sign or return them.
Free press., 1907-03-23

Chicago suffragists announce a
meeting on the same day that 80 of
their sisters in London are sent to
prison. From them the men may
learn a lesson in devotion to convic-
ton.
Free press., 1907-03-23

Perhaps the most remarkable thing
about that case of the New York man
who was found to have been afflicted
with Is different diseases is the fact
that appendicitis was not one of them.
Free press., 1907-03-23

They've found the mummy of an
Egyptian queen who was buried in
sheets of gold. Had to do it prob
ably because all the other sheets were
tackled down on the floor to save the
carpets at the funeral.
Free press., 1907-03-23

The hatlcss fashion is strictly in ac-
cord with the spirit of the age. mas
much as the investigating tendency
mania shows everywhere and in every
thing tendency to take off the, lid.
Free press., 1907-03-23
Why should this be the case /?


Because they have neglected them
selves, as every one OF these patients
in the hospital beds had plenty of
warning in those dragging sensations,
pains at left or right of abdomen,
backaches, nervous exhaustion, in
Illumination, liberation, displ ace
ments, and other organic weaknesses.
All of these symptoms are indica-
tions of an unhealthy condition of the
female system and If not needed the
penalty has to be paid by dangerous
operation When these symptoms
manifest themselves, do not drag
along until you are obliged to go to
the hospital and submit to an opera
tion-but remember that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
from native roots and herbs, has saved
hundreds of women from surgical
operations.
Lydia E. Pirkhara's Vegetable
Compound. has cured more cases of
feminine ills than. any other one
remedy. Such letters as thefollowing
Free press., 1907-03-23

Andrew Carnegie writes to an ac-
quaintance: Il might have been a
rich man. If hadn't resolved hot to
spend an old age in the pursuit" Yet
it is painful to see man quit az race
when SO near the mark as Mr. Car
negie was.
Free press., 1907-03-23

Every girl knows that an engage
ment ring on the third finger of the
left hand is worth seven in the shop.
Free press., 1907-03-23
Mss MARGARET TlERNEY

A large proportion OF the operations
performed in our hospitals are upon
women and girls for some organic
trouble.
Free press., 1907-03-23
MRS. CHAS. A. A.RocKWooD

are constantly being received by
Mrs Pinlzham to prove our claims.
Mrs. G. a. lockwood, teacher OF
Parliamentary Law, of So Free St,
Fredonia, n. Y, writes:
''For years I suffered with female trouble.
1t was decided that an operation was neces-
sary, and although submitted to a serious
operation my sufferings continued, until
Lydia E. P Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was recommended and it proved marvellous
remedy, SO quickly did it restore my health.
/ cannot thank you sufficiently for the good
it has done me-"
Miss Margaret Tierney, of No. s2s
w. 25th Street, New York, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
''When only eighteen years of age our
physician decided that an operation was
necessary to permit of my womanly organs
performing their natural functions. NV
mother objected and being urged by a
relative to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Veget-
able Compound did so. soon improved in
health, the proper conditions were establish
ed and I am wen and strong, thanks to
Lydia e. Pinkhans Vegetable Compound"
No other remedy has such un-
qualified endorsement as Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound No
other remedy in the world has such
a record of cures of female ills.
Free press., 1907-03-23
Made Two Appointments. :

Made TWO Appointments. = Gov.
Hoch has announced the reaappoint-
ment OF John B. Baker as state live
stock sanitary commissioner. Mr
Bakers commission runs for two
years, beginning April l. A. 7.
Eavis was also named by the GOV
ernor as probate Judge of Linn
county. The regularly elected Judge
died recently and Mr.. Davis ap-
pointrnent will hold until the next
Election
Bank Deposits Increasing. - Ac-
cording to the combined statement
of the State and National banks
given out by State Bank Commits
sioner John @. Royce there is SIS,
100000 more on deposit in the
banks OF the state than there was
at this time a year ago The re.
port establishes another high marx
for the banks of Kansas. The re.
port shows the condition of the
banking institutions at the close Of
business January &c.
Free press., 1907-03-23
Mrs. Pinkhan1's sfanding Invitation TO

of
female
Mrs WOmans His
Free press., 1907-03-23

Ex-CouncIg7an Suicides Ex-
Councilman J. W Blossom. former
iy member Of the city council Of
Topeka from the First ward. com
mitted suicide by hanging himself
with a rope in the loft of a barn at
+he rear of his home. 1928 North
Polk street. For the past three
years and half Mr. Blossom has
been suffering from mental de-
rangement brought on by worry
over losses sustained in the flood
which swept over North Topeka in
the spring of 1903 and by kidney
and bladder disease and the taking
of his life IS attributed to this con-
dition.