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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
KANSAS COMNENT
THAT SHADED MAP.

Some of the eastern papers are
publishing map Of the United States
with shaded sections showing where
the. sale of intoxicating liquors are
some white sections in the far west
showing wide open. but a greater part
OF the country is shaded.
II Is time to ask what has caused
this great change, particularly in the
south. The anti-saloon league and
the prohibitfonist may be inclined to
claim the credit. but in fact. the
school teachers have brought about
the change and in this case the school
teachers are the merchants, the pro-
ressional men and the managers of
the big corporations. There is no
place in our great educational or in
dustrial workshio for the drunkard.
We are living in an advanced stage
OF the worlds history and the man
VINO conducts great stores or shops
today must have his head The
man who imbibes freely loses his
head. Like any other fool1 the
drunkard considers himself wise, but
he isn't. The boy who attends school
hopes to I'LL place in the world. but
1t does not take him very long to find
out that there is no place in the world
today for the drunkard.
The manager of the big factory with
its complicated machinery does not
want drunken man about 1t. When
the railroad train pulls out with its
cargo of human freight the manager
wants the engineer, the conductor
heads. The railroad superintendent
avoids the man in the habit of getting
drunk as he would a plague. The big
merchant does not want him and the
doctors or the lawyers office is no
place for the drunkard. In this age
of greatly increased production nina
as well as muscle is a factor. The
drunkard may have muscle but "he
has lost his head" Even the saloon
keeper does not want a drunkard to
attend his bar. He is unsafe in any
position and nobody wants him. Coli
ditions of today are forcing men to be
sober. They must keep their heads
or get out of the way of this moving
world.-Wichita Eagle.
THE BUG KILLERS
Few people realize how much has
been done and is being done in be-
half of the farmers of this. western
country, and consequently to the ad-
vantage of the people in general by
the earnest and able scientists con-
nected with the Agricultural college
and experiment stations.
No sooner does a pestiferous insect
arrive with its attendant legions to
Iavage the crops, than those skilled
men go forth to combat it. and the
success they usually achieve is sur
prising. 1t is impossible to say how
much has been saved by the warfare
against green bugs and other animated
annoyances of the fields. but the fig
ures, If they could be compiled, would
be astonishing.
Time was when old fashioned farm
ers sneered at the specialists of the
experiment stations, regarding them
as Improbable tinkerers who drew
salaries for wasting time. But such
sneers are heard no longer. The
farmer who can not appreciate the
vast good that is being done by the
scientists in question belongs to a past
generation, and farms his land with
a wooden plew.-Emporia Gazette.
THIS IS TOUGH.
The worst thing about Eugene
Wares recent piece is that 1t has
brought out a new corps of defenders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
Pine Coming Around the Horn.

Freighted with so-called oregon
pine, the British steamship Earl of
Douglas is coming to New York
around the Horn from Mosquito Har-
Dor, B. c. She stops for coal at CAL
loa, Peru; Coronel, Chilli, Montevideo
and Barba dos. Yet SO valuable is pine
or any working substitute, that her
consignors see profit in the vo.rage of
some 10000 miles. Redwood shin
giles and special lots of lumber and
timber have long paid the high freight
rates by rail across the continent
When Samuel Bowles and Schuyler
Colfax visited the Pacific coast in
1866, Mr.. Bowles, a shrewd observer,
thought our Oregon pine inexhausti-
bic. Ten years earlier the Michigan
pine was so described; 20 years before
that the pine Of Maine and the Adj
dondacks. Now Clifford Pinchot of
the forestry bureau says that we have
only lumber enough to last 20 years.
Yet when the Earl of Douglas gets
here with her cargo Of Canadian pine
relieving the waste of our forests, the
''stand-pat" tariff policy of this coun-
try will collect tax of 81 a thousand
feet on every plank and every stick!
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
Roosevelt and the Grizzly.

although not aprOpos 1 am tempted
to narrate two other experiences
which came to me on the same trip 1
left the line of the Great Northern to
report on the mineral resources of the
kootenay lake district There came
10 our camp one night guide, or
trapper, who accepted our invitation
TO supper before resuming his canoe
trip. He said he had just come down
from the Selkirks. where he had acted
as guide for man named Theodore
roosevelt, who wanted a shoot a
cinnamon grizzly. He said: THAT
man Roosevelt is the bravest man 1
ever saw. He is awful near-sighted,
and has his pockets full of different
kinds of eyeglasses and spectacles; he
mas one set for reading. one for ordi-
nary outdoor work, and one for shoot
ing. We were going up a narrow trail
i was ahead-when 1 saw big
grizzly trotting down, not over a hun
dred yards away. L jumped back and
told Mr.. Roosevelt. Most any other
man would first have thought of his
gun, but Roosevelt stopped, felt
around until he found the glasses that
he wanted took off the pair he had
on, wiped the other pair and adjusted
them on his nose, and then, with the
grizzly coming along at a good clip,
and only few yards away on this
narrow trail, he took time to get a
good aim, and shot him dead A man
that takes time to change his eve
glasses when a grizzly is charging him
Is mighty brave. '-Correspond of
The Outlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
THIS IS TOUGH.

The worst thing about Eugene
Wares recent piece Is that it has
brought out a new corps of defenders
of the memory of John Brown, who
sign their names "Qld Timer and
zone Who Was There."-Wichita
Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
PUT 1T ON THE WINK.
A BRILLIANT SCHEME

The car hopes to restore peace in
his realm by clothing his soldiers in
snowy uniforms. 1t is scheme the
Nihilists should welcome as a DECIDED
Improvement In their targets--Cieve-
land Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

Sincere Sympathy-"I'm so sorry"
said Mrs. Parvenue, bidding good
night to her guests, after the recep-
ton, that the storm kept all our best
people away. The Taller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

Who Will nswer?-"Suppose. Miss
Irma, you were man and 1 was a
girl; would you try to kiss me?" "I
really do not know. What would you
do ?"-F1iegande Batter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

"Sir. have you room for this little poem
I have just dashed off?'
Certainly :all the room you want Moth
ing in the Nwastebasket at all this early in
the day."-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

Restrained Himself. - Mamma
And what did you say when Mr.. Tite-
was as polite as I could be and didn't
say nothin'.-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
HUNOR or THE Day

Her Father (reluctantly)-Well. I
reckon you may marry my daughter.
Suddenly Do you drink? Her sutton
(absently) I'll take a rye
Observer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

Mamma-Did you thank the lady when
she gave you the candy, Tommie7
Tommie-No, ma'am; though perhaps
she'd give me some more and I was go
ing to thank her all at once."-Yonkers
Statesman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

don I1ke TO act as q Juryman1
Judge" Conscientious, eh?'' That's
it. 1 wouldn't like to do nobody u
wrong" You can't go amiss in this
case. One lawyer is suing another
lawyer.''-San Francisco Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27

The Author wish you would put
gags into the piece. Why don't you
speak my lines and wait for the
laughs? The Actor-My last train
goes at midnight!-Philadelp In
Quirer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
FIND WOMAN DEAD,
MURDER SUSPECTED
Had Been Lying on Floor
Of Kitchen in Flat For
Some Days.

NEW YORK. July 4-Kate Daily a
comedy middle-aged woman. was found
dead in her neat little fat at 337- West
FOrty-ninth street. and the appearance
of the body and surrounding circum-
stances point strongly to murder.
Kate Daily was a respectable, modest
person who had worked hard all her
life as a cook in the families OF the
wealthy. and had laid by good sum
Of money.
The last seen of the woman alive was
last Saturday night at Z o'clock. when
she left the house to do her marketing.
and gave a CHEEKY word to the jani-
tress.
All Tuesday and yesterday an odor
came from the DAILY womans room.
and the other tenants were incensed. as
they believed the lodger had decayed
garbage on the premises August Peter
horn, tenant. told Patrolman McMa-
hon. of the West FOrtY-seventh street
station, that he had suspicious all was
not right in the DAILY fiat. and accom-
panied the policeman up the rear fire
escape to II. on the second floor. rear.
One of the windows was open at the
top and bottom, and they effected an
entrance. They found the woman dead
evidently for some time. on the floor
OF her little kitchen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
ITCHING TORTURE
Of LITTLE BABY
Head and Face Covered With Awful
itching Sores and Scabs-WouId
Scratch Until Blood Came
Mother in Despair for Treatment
Did No Good-Dread Disease
YIELDED TO CUTICURA
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY

81 was in despair about my baby.
When he was about two months old his
face and head were full of scabs and
very itching sores with terrible running
matter. l had to tie his little hands in
bags for he used TO make his face and
head bleed. had two or three doctors
but they did not do any good. I was
told to try Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment and l can say that they
stopped the running matter Immediately
and soon after had washed him twice
he looked almost well, but l used about
three cakes of Cuticura Soap and four
or five boxes Of Cuticura Ointment, con-
tinuing the treatment for two or three
months. l also used Cuticura Rene
dies for my other children and took
Cuticura Resolvent myself to purify my
milk for my baby whom l nursed while
he suffered with that terrible itching
and sores he had. Now / always have
Cuticura Soap and Ointment in the
house handy. / shall be glad If you
want to publish this letter so that other
sufferers will come to know what good
the Cuticura Remedies can do. Mrs.
Frances Rizzo, 1905 Dickinson ST., Phils-
delphia, Penn. Nov. s and Is, 1906"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
GIRL OBEYS DOG,
MIND UNBALANCED
Young Woman Thinks Her
Pet Can Commune
With Humans.

HANOVER, Mass, July 4.-Niss
Edith J. Cox. of Dorchester, who wan
dered away demented from the home OF
her uncle, William Delap. accompanied
by her dog, was found today asleep in
the woods near town, her dress torn,
her hair disheveled. and weak from her
wanderings. The dog was standing
guard and growled when the searchers
appeared. Ii has heen her inseparable
companion during her recent illness OF
body and mind. and she was greatly
attached to ii. Her conversation was
always IN regard 70 her pet, her mania
taking that direction, and she would
try 20 communicate her desires through
the animal
After scores had searched for Miss
Cox mp 10 a late hour. Selectman Bow
ker called upon all citizens 10 assist
The mills were shut down in the afternoon
and the employees Joined in the search.
IL was found that she had called at
house where she asked for "A drink
OF water. This she offered TO her dog
but refused 20 drink herself declaring
that the dog told her not TO drink
Traced and found. Miss Cox when
awakened refused TO leave the place
asserting that the dog wished her TO
remain. Finally the dog was coaxed
away and las mistress willingly fol-
lowed She is resting quietly and with
ner still Is the dog.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
WIFE IS SHOT,
HUSBAND HELD
Man Angered at Reproaches
About Drinking, 1t Is
Believed.

NEWARK, n J.. July 4-Infuriated
by her reproaches because he had been
drinking, Lane Scofield. A travelling
representative Of a large machinery
house Of Philadelphia, shot and. prob
ably fatally injured his wife Virginia.
in their apartments in the fashionable
Lenox Hotel.
During their ten-day stay in Newark
the Scohelds apparently have been de-
voted TO each other. Guests in the din
ing room saw no change last night in
their attitude.
Shortly after dinner, when they had
retired 10 their apartment on the sew
enth floor, the Scohelds were heard talk
ing in angry tones, the quarrel being
suddenly terminated By two shots in
quick succession
When hotel employees reached the
seventh floor. they found Mrs. SchofeId
lying in the hallway, desperately
wounded
He did not mean to shoot me He
did not mean 10 shoot me- she moan
ed repeatedly before she lost conscious
ness.
Scofeld was held in the Second Pre-
ctnct station without bail. He persisted
in his refusal to make a statement
1t was observed in the dining room
last night that SCOfeld seemed partially
Intoxicated for the first time since he
had been al the LenoX. The quarrel is
believed TO have resulted from his con-
dtiOn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
GIRLS In PAJAMAS FLEE,
BURGLAR WAS MERELY CAT
Startled on Street During Early Morning Hours
by Visions in Pink Silk and, Being Gallant
He Investigates

had to come. Please let US in"-was
the anguished appeal from the littiest
pajama girl that fioated to Sneider' s
ears.
Down came the window, and a second
later all three disappeared within the
door.
Had Leaped From Window.
Sneider's investigation in the interest
of the protection of citizens revealed, a
few doors down. the appraised window
Of SG7 South Emerson street, from which
the three in their hurried flight had
leaped to the ground, without waiting
to don the additional raiment that was
generously scattered about the room.
Miss Bessie Bingham and Charlotte
Partridge. two college girls from the
East, were visiting their cousin. Miss
Grace Juno. who makes her home with
an aunt The aunt being called away.
the three girls were left in the big
house for night alone. and al . a. n.
one of the doughty trio heard what
sounded like some one stumbling. A
crash followed. and in an instant The
three had rushed 70 the window, thrown
up the sash and jumped for life.
The surprise OF the maidens when they
found their belongings safe on return
ing this morning was only equaled by
the air Of conscious rectitude Of a big
Maltese cat, who surveyed a broken
vase upon the floor
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
GIRLS WERE RURAL
AND GOT STUNG
Riding on Load of Hay Not
So Much Fun AS They
Thought.

PORT JERVIS, n. Y. July flames
ter. Sullivan county. has five summer
boarders, all New York young women.
He was driving a load of hay TO the
barn.
"Oh, give US a ride, Mr.. Kennedy
cried Miss Julia Kane.
do; il will be so rustic" chimed
IN Miss Jennie Herman.
Truly rural" exclaimed Miss Maud
Parson.
''Shucks!' said Kennedys farm hand
disgustedly. How are you going to get
women on a load Of hay without a
aadder?"
Boost 'em up to me-" said the farm
er. IN land EN- all right" And it
was done.
Half way to the barn piercing shrieks
from the three girls rent the air. Ken
nedy did not know what was the mat
ter until a bee stung him. A humble
bees nest had been thrown on the
wagon with the hay Screaming with
pain, Miss Jennie and Miss Maud slid
safely to the ground, but Miss Julla's
dress caught on the pole and chain
The farm hand gTasped her ankles to
wrench her free.
GO way. wretch, go way" said
Miss Julia, her dress muffling her voice.
IT'S me or the bees retorted the rude
farm hand. and he tore Miss Julia loose,
leaving part of her dress on the pole
Kennedy and the farm hand were quiet
ong them, the young women fed to the
house Their supper was served on
the mantelpiece.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
JAPS SUE FRISCO
FOR RIOT DAMAGE

SAN FRANCISCO. July 4-Suit
against the city and county of San Fran
cisco was filed this afternoon in the
superior court for the recovery of 81
80 for damages said to have been sus-
tanned by the proprietor of Horse Shoe
restaurant. and Japanese bath house
at Eighth and Folsom streets on May %.
when row caused by an attack by
labor union men on two non-union men
who were eating in the restaurant. re-
suited in the fronts Of the two places
6elng smashed by stones and clubs. The
japanese Association of America has
issued a statement declaring that jap
anese children in San Francisco are
no longer denied the right Of educa-
ton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04

DENVER, July 4-Patrolman Sneider
in that oft-quoted darkest hour before
the dawn was leaning against the tele-
graph pole at South Emerson street
and Alameda avenue when he saw a
marvellous vision. Three pairs of pink
pajamas, apparently upholstered by
three plump young damsels, fitted by
kim with two blond heads and one dark
enc above and three pairs of lily white
feet below. But for the sound OF a
muffied sob that escaped the threefold
sweetness ere il vanished Sneider would
have imagined himself the victim of
a mirage, but the sob was entirely hu-
man.
A Gallant Policeman.
Being a gallant policeman possessed
by pardonable curiosity, Sneider fol-
lowed them also on the run. He felt
sure that here was a need Of his strong
right arm in defense Of beauty. lie
saw the pink pajamas pause in their
onward rush. turn in at 3l5 South
Emerson street and tap gently. but in
sistently. at a window. The sobs were
still quite audible and the sympathetic
patrolman felt for his bandana while
he listened. Presently the window vas
opened cautiously and a woman's voice
asked: Who's there Apparently the
sobbing reply was alarming. The win
dow was lifted higher and the head IF
Mrs Charles Houston appeared,
oh. il was burglars and we Just
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
FORGOT THE BABY,
STARTING ABROAD
Steamer Delayed Ten Min
uteS While Infant Is
Sought.

NEW YORK, July 4.-Hendrick Van
Sloek. OF Paola, Iowa. and his wife
almost left for Europe on the steamship
Nieue Amsterdam, OF the Holland
America line, without their baby. They
had forgotten the infant, and left it at
the hotel where they had stopped over
night. The baby was not missed until
Just as the gangplank was about to he
hauled in, and the vessel was delayed
ten minutes to get the child on board.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Sloek were stopping
at tie Hotel Amsterdam. in Hoboken.
and did not leave their room until late.
and just in time for a hasty breakfast.
They hurried the children 10 the hotel
dining room, leaving the baby asleep.
Breakfast over, Van Sloek and his wife
hastily picked up their baggage. and.
followed by the three children, hurried
across Hudson Square Park to the HOl-
fundamental pier.
The gangplank was about TO be drawn
in when the party reached the New
Amsterdam. Van SIoek stepped on the
gangrlsnk, and as he did so, his wife
gave cry Of alarm.
THE baby," she screamed, as she fed
from the pier across the park to the
hotel.
Van Sloex hastily explained to an Of
ficer Of the steamship that his wife had
gone for her baby, and then he followed
her. The woman became hystericaI.
and tainted as she sped across the park.
Her husband stopped 10 revive her, and
as She regained consciousness a maid
from the hotel came running across the
park with the baby in her arms.
It was the Van Sloek infant, and when
the maid placed II in the arms of its
mother she and her husband and the
three little Van Stocks returned to the
pier and boarded the ship. the gang
plank was drawn in, and the moorings
were cast off
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
GERMS OF DISEASE
FIGHT EACH OTHER

COLORADO SPRINGS. Col. July A.
Counteracttng the effects OF one dreaded
disease with the bacilli OF another is
The method used by physicians attend
-1ng Prof. Louis A. L. Ahlers. of Colo
rado College. who is dangerously i'll
with tumor near the heart Erysipelas
germs from Chicago are being daily in
oculated into the patients system. and
although Prof Ahlers has developed a
thorough case of erysipelas, the tumor
seems TO be disappearing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
BURGLAR FISHES,
SECURES TROUSERS
Garment Contained Sc
and Watch as
Booty.

PITTSBURG. July Awhile Bellevue
police hunted a burglar. who used a
ladder to gain entrance 20 upper stories,
prowling genius with a fishing pole.
line and hook, robbed H. Main Of his
trousers. watch and So.
Mains residence was the second Wis
tied during the night by the burglar
He first went TO the homo Of H. c.
Swan Mr.. Swan was awakened in time
TO see his trousers slowly crawling
across the floor toward an open window.
He jumped from bed I'm time 10 seize
them and save his valuables
After robbing the Main home. the
burglar left his pole and line in the
yard After raising the windows he
had showed the pole and line into the
room to hook whatever article he
wanted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-04
JUDGED INSANE,
CAN'T TESTIFY
District Attorney Would
Resist Martins
Creditors.
Declares Efforts of WASH
ingtonians to Be
Futile.

BALTIMORE, July 4.-'There is moth
ing in the Maryland law, as 1 under
stand IL. that will allow the creditors
OF Thomas r. Martin to set the verdict
OF the Baltimore county court aside"
Morris a. SOper. the assistant United
States district attorney, who represented
Mrs. Martin when her bankrupt hus-
band was adjudged insane at Towson
In May, made this statement when the
local correspondent of The Times in
formed him Of the steps being contem-
plated in Washington by creditors of
Martin TO have the verdict annulled or
set aside.
Distinction and Difference.
Under the Maryland law" declared
Mr.. Soper. "of course the party ad-
judged insane, or any OF his relatives
interested in the case. might ask for a
reopaning, so that the person adjudged
insane might be granted his freedom.
But as ! understand 1t this case is en-
tirely different Here are simply cred
itors OF a man adjudged insane. and so
Tar as We all know, is insane, who de-
sire his release so that he can appear
In court relative to certain conditions OF
his affairs.
Let US presume that there would be
such proceedings, and that Mr.. Martin
was allowed TO return 10 Washington
TO meet his creditors What do they
expect they could do with him2 They
certainly don't think he could appre-
Ciate what was going on around him;
DO they? And do they think that an IN
sane man is the right sort of person
TO help them adjust accounts. 1 don't t.
Testimony Worthless.
81 know nothing of the business af-
fairs OF Mr.. Martin. | have never seen
him. But his condition has been re-
ported to Us by very reputable physi-
clans who have examined him. That
should be worth something. They re-
port him insane. We know that one of
his brothers. sister. and as I under
stand 1t. one OF his parents has been
affected with some mental arrangement
His own brother was treated at the
Gundry Sanitarium; that is why Mr.
Martin was sent there. All these things
considered fail to see where the credi-
tors can expect much. even If Mr.. Mar
TIN was sent 10 Washington to testify"