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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23
GEO. w. M'KNIGHT DEAD.
Kansan Is Stricken With
Bright's Disease.

Junction City. Kan. April 23.-George
w. Mcknight, well, known business
man, died here Monday of Bight's dis
ease after several weeks Illness He was
Ga years old. ss.s5a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23

sure centering on American Smelling.
That stock lost 2ss points, Northwestern
2K points Northern Pacific 2 points and
st Paul, Union Pacific, Atchison, Great
Northern preferred, Reading. New York
Central, Big -Four, United States Steel.
more
Bonds were irregular.
Fractional recoveries exhausted the puy-
ing orders in the market and speculation
became stagnant. Canadian Pacific and
WESTINGHOUSE Electric yielded a point.
Il Stocks were without decisive movement
during the greater part of the afternoon.
but ruled at about the lowest Southern
Pacific and Pacific Mail declined l point.
Range OF Prices on Stocks.
FURNISHED by J. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Office ITO w. Sixth street. Phone 4S6
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23

New York, April 2a-SUGAR-Raw su-
gar steady Fair refining. 49, %; centrifu-
gal, SO test, $3.76; molasses sugar, $S.O4.
Refined sugar steady. Crushed, $50;
powdered, $3.50; graduated, 81. So.
COFFEESMarket steady No. Rio,
62zc; No, Santos, TIC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23
Chicago Markets.

Furnished by ]. E. GALL Commissions.
Grain 5, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks,
Office 10 w. Sixth street. Phone 1851
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23

IThe following sales were made today ar
the stock yards. Kansas City, Mo, and
telephoned 10 The Topeka State Journal
by Clay. Robinson & Co.. live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at all
markets.l
Kansas City, April %.
CATTLE-Receipts today, 1900 head
Market steady for all but stockers ana
feeders.
HOGS-Receipts today. 5000 head. Mar
ket 5@711c higher Bulk of sales, $500
6.65; top, $685.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 10000 head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23
Market Gossip.

FURNISHED by j. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO w. Sixth st. Phone ass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23

National Board OF Trade. Kansas City.
rF'll: nished by J. E. Gan. Commissions,
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23

rouelxa Market

Galveston. Tex, April 2S.-COTToN-
Market steady, INC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23
RI1TTER. EGGS. POuLTRY-

TFurnished by Topeka Packing Co., ne.
Zig West Laurent ST.
POULTRY-Broilers, lbs, 15c; hens
1Oc ID; coarse young ROSTERS, SC; spring
Chickens, 10c; old roosters, &c: live tur-
KEYS 12c; ducks. &c; geese, &c.
E,GGSEFresh country, 13c.
RTJTTER-FreSh country. 19124c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23

ToneISa Hide Marker
sn.tces paid in Topeka this week. basad
on Boston Quotationsl
Topeka, April @.
GREEN SALT CURED. sic
~ ~ = 30. 6Qd73 -
NJ. l IALLOW
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-23


FURNISHED by Charles Woln Packing Co
Yards close at noon Saturdays.I
Topeka, April q.
HOGS -
MIXED AND BUTCHERS. S615 66.20
n EEAVY ....................... Sis GI6.2O
LIGHT .......- oU 46.ZI
Stays $1.o091.50 less than hogs. acoord-
ing to QuaSty.
CALVES.
CALVES. 200 lbs. AND UNDER. 10000 .
CALVES. HEAVY, 250q3 500: -. 2.O003.50
CORN FED COWS.
EXTRA GOOD .........-...........$3oo d3.1s
MEDIUM 2.50G13.40
FAIR KILLERS ................... 2.0012.50
CORN FED HELPERS.
EXTRA GOOD .....................$5159 S. 80
MEDIUM 250y3O0
FAIR KILLERS ..........-:....... 2.00U2 80
cHoJCE -. ...................-.... 81 5O0s rs
KILLING 4.O0p2.50
TRIMMERS ....................-.. 2.1002.26
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
Medicine Vendors.

Representative Loveandy is on the right line in his bill to restrict the sale of deadly drugs and poisons," said a man of affairs.
 What is needed right here in this dis tric now is an enforcement of the law against so called doctors and vendors of medicines who are not only prescrb- ing but making connections for those simple enough to apply to them. There is a law requiring doctors to be examined and there is anot. CT law which applies ito pharmacists-both these laws are be- ling openly violated here.
 II would like for the sheriff, while he is pursuing all those who have over loked compliance as to the license re- quired, to also look after those fellows who not only are not licensed, but could not De under the Alabama laws strictly enforced.
 Again the makers of so called hop-jack are violating the federal pure food law; not only are they doing this, but they arc using poisons that make the most dangerous class of criminals l know what am talking about, for l have seen the effects in mining and railroad camps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
President Disz's Direct Methods

In this country government owner snip of railroads is at the most an academic question, and no one ant1ci- nates-not even Mir. Bryan-any early action on that subject. All great ef- forts. like the Panama canal, are pre- ceded in this country by fully fifty years. more or less, of discussion and agitation.
 Not so in Mexico, a land that Diaz not only presides over, but rules with n rod of iron. He is a true autocrat, although very worthy ruler. When he makes up ms mind to adopt new policy, he does not encourage a cam paign of education. He does not need any sucn campaign in his business. He simply acts. He does not even institute a public investigation. He does not call a special session of con gress.
 For example, when he decided to rationalize the railroads of Mexico El Diaro Official simply announced the organization of limited liability stock cor.pany, the National Railways of Mexico" and that stock company at once gobbled up the National and Mexican Central systems of railroads, The government controls the new holding company. The announcement was made in the simplest and quietest manner, and Mexico accepts the result without a murmur.
 The ways of Mexico are not the ways of the United States. The DiaZ method is business-like and direct and conclusive, but this country is not ready for action of that sort. This may be plutocracy, but it certainly is not country that would stand the rule of an autocrat of the Diaz pat tern, no matter how wise and bene- t,cial his rule might be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
Dispensers In EnoIand.

"In England there are dispensers as well as saloons" said a, native of the Isles.
 There are places that dispense wine and beers but one is not allowed to drink on the premises. The licenses are not near so high as the greg shops.
 The saloon Is a different proposition in England from what 1t Y here. Very often the proprietor's daughter works behind the bar. There is nc swearing all lowed. They serve bread and cheese all ways. and pipes and tobacco free.
 "Only the purest of liquor is sold and ale is the popular drink. Bass ale is cents the bottle and cents for a glass. And the glass has to be stamped under the bottom with the Imperial stamp no short measure Is allowed.
 "On Sunday saloons are allowed to open from 12 to and from to 10 o'clock
 ''The excise officers hold for life and begin at about $500 and sometimes go as high as $50,O0 salary per annum. They have a right to demand samples of the stuff served and If an analysis of it is found not to come up to standard, the officers return and proceed to knock the heads out of all barrels containing that kind of liquor. So you see saloon keeper can afford to take chances on the drinks he sells"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
Skyscrapers Wanted Here

Skyscrapers are wanted in every city in which office room is in demand. The revolution against the small, un- cared-for office building is complete, and few desirable tenants can now be induced to occupy an office in build ing that lacks modern conveniences. Those conveniences are possible only in skyscrapers, because such buildings enable the landlord to distribute ex- penses among a goodly number of ten- ants. and the burden on one tenant is lot heavy
 The trend towards skyscrapers will gain force and volume as the years go o, and in the course of another decade all good tenants will be found in sky scrapers. Offices in lower buildings Will then go begging for occupants in vain. Every additional skyscraper in yites another, and the result is plainly to. be foreseen.
 Handsome and valuable corner lots particularly call for tall buildings, ar in all this valley there is no other lot that calls more loudly than thA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
CARAVAN TRADE DEAD
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 ZA LL the routes the trade has fol-
 PA lowed for ages across the larger
 part of the Sahara controlled by France are now open to the traveller, who may go on his way with a feeling of se- curity, for he knows he will not be mo- tested by bandits, The paths from well to well are absolutely secure. Within the last two years two French professors, Gautier and Chudeau, each without wea- pons and each accompanied only by a guide and a servant, have crossed the desert along different routes from Algeria to the Soudan without an accident or a menace. On all the routes pushing north ward through the wastes to Algeria and Tunis millions of dollars worth of com modities have passed to and fro. But the trade Is dead. Not a caravan is now using these routes. There are two good reasons for the remarkable transforma- tion
 M. Gautier met a large number of the nomad flora Tuoregs. but he did not see a caravan on his way. A while ago Capt. Fly SainteMarie led a party across the wide Erg Igid west of the Taut oases. Several of the caravan routes from the Mediterranean to the Soudan are traced through that belt of desert On his way he shows six of them through the Erg, all of which were once largely used and all converged on Toadent, formerly the great salt and slave market in the heart of the Western Soudan. Here are the oases, un-
 inhabited, but rich In water and grass. where the caravans used to feed and rest their pack animals. There are five of these green places in the desert, and Fly Sainte- Marie visited them all. He found old traces of the camps where thousands of camels had been pastured. He found one new trace, about two weeks old, the track of two cames and only one man, travelling northward. This was the only evidence of human activity he saw. In seventy-one days of travel, during which he covered 2300 kilometers, he saw no other sign of human life.
 Tinduf, a little further west, has almost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
Dun's Weekly Review.

New York, July 19.-R. G. Dun & Co. 8 weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
 Encouraging reports are received from leading commercial centers, the volume of business being exceptionally heavy for the season, and stocks are depleted by the usual clearance sales, proving that prompt payments and greater confi- dence in the future. Buyers are nu- merods in the large cities, preparing for an active fall trade, now that the agri- cultural outlook Is less uncertain. Cloth Ing manufacturers report much new bus mess and few cancellations.
 Dullness in the pig iron market Is not unusual at this time of the year, but there Is little reduction in the output At some of the steel mills there is more or less seasonable absence of new con- tracts, but specifications are large on old orders Producers are confident that much delayed business will appear when the crops are secured, while still more postponed work only works for a nor nal condition.
 Advices from iobbers indicate that ad- vance business for fall has largely ex- ceded antcipations and there is much anxiety regarding the ability of the mills to make shipments according to speciti- cations.
 Little export trade is accomplished, but the Chinese market has improved. No developments are expected in the mar ket for woolens until the finer grades of worsted fabrics are opened.
 Aaeumulations in all leading markets, both here and abroad, make lower quota tions for hides, although some increase in the volume of business is noted.
 Improvement is noted in the leather market with the tone firm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20

From the National Geographic Magazine.
 PITZBERGEN is known as "No NN Mans Land," as it belongs to no O country, Norway and Sweden being unable to agree as to It's possession. Danes Island on the northwest coast of Spitzoergen, was Andrees starting point in 1897, and here also Walter Wellman has established his headquarters.
 The most daring of all schemes of polar exploration was that urged and under taken by s. A. Andree of Sweden. A mem- Der of the Swedish international Polar ex- petition of 1ss2-1Sss and an aeronaut of some experience, Andree succeeded in commanding for his plan the active sup port of Oscar, King of Sweden; M. Alfred Noble and Bron Oscar Dickson. In 1896 his party passed several weeks at Danes Island, Spitzbergen, where they erected 9 balloon house and failed to start, owing to adverse winds. Observations of the esca ping gas showed quite conclusvely that the fiotation life of the balloon had been overestlmated. On his return An dree had the balloon enlarged and im- proved, so that its impermeability and fio- tat1Ve powers were increased. W1tn the gunboat Svensksund and tender Virgo, Andree revisited Danes Island in June, 1897. The balloon house had withstood the winter storms. and after the install lation of the balloon all possible means were adopted to reduce to minimum It's daily loss of gas by permeation through the envelope. The plan looked to the Notation of the balloon some 800 feet above the sea by means ofthree attached heavy guide ropes. each 900 feet long. to which in turn were fastened eight ballast lines, a50 feet long with which 1t was expected by shifting the position of the guide ropes to change the direction of the balloon. On July 6 a violent gale barely escaped wrecking both house and balloon. Finally, on July Il, the wind was favorable in strength and direction and everything was ready The balloon. named ornen (the Eagle) had its load of about five tons of food, ballast, freight and men, and from measurements of escaping gas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
Melancholy as a Iover's lute.
 - King w.
Trust Rule in the Theatres

The Montgomery State says the new gigantic theatrical merger has secured control of the Montgomery theatre the Dexter Avenue theatre, now nearly completed, and the Bijou. In other words. the trust has made a clean sweep in the capital city, and trust attractions only will be seen there during the coming season.
 What the theatrical situation is in this city and in Mobile has not been stated. but a $20O,OOOOOO merger is pretty sure to do the monopoly act wherever it does anything at all. The litigation begun against the Klaw- Erlanger people about year ago re- suited in their favor, and this seems to have encouraged them to devise merger of the utmost possible sweep and strenuosity.
 There is public or educational side to the stage as well as commercial side, and fortunate will we be if the former is as carefully promoted by the trust as the latter assuredly will be. The trusts are in the saddle, and all t. q general public can do is to sit still and await developments. The general public is helpless, and the trusts are left free to exploit the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20

completely disappeared. Lenz found 1t IF
 the eighties the most hourishing town ht
 saw in the Sahara, the great collecting
 place of the trade between Morocco and
 the Soudan, the largest slave mart in ths desert. Here the negroes of the soudau
 were herded, a part of them to go on td Morocco and the remainder to be sentt
 farther east to be traded for salt al Taodeni and then scattered far and wide among the oases. Both these places are now mostly in ruins and have no commer. eial significance. The transsaharan traf4 fc has been wiped out, and 1t has been done by the French while they were mah- ing its routes secure. There will be an active and a growing trade between ths oases and and the fertile regions north and south of the desert, but the French say themselves that there Is no prospect of the revival of the through commercial routes across the Sahara.
 The two agencies that have brought about this great change are the completa suppression of the slave trade and the of steam routes of commu- nicatlon in the Soudan. There is no fur4 ther use for camel caravans between tho Western Soudan and the Western Medit- erranean states. The transportation of slaves was a large anu very profitable feature of the trade, but this commerca has been wholly wiped out. The legiti4 mate trade is following the line of least resistance opened by the progress of ma- terial civilization.
 The upper Niger now floats light draught steamers that carry freight past Timbuktu hundreds of miles to the rail+ road that passes 1t on to the Senegal. where other steamers carry 1t to the Att lantic It is the longer way to the MedI iterranean and to Europe but 1t is far cheaper than camel caravans across the Sahara Some day, doubtless, the Sahara will be spanned by railways, but until that time the western half of the desert will have practically no part in the trada between the Soudan and North Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20

Chalifoux lot on First avenue at the corner of Nineteenth street. The owner of the lot is prominent citizen of Lowell, Mass, a leader in politics and in advanced thought as well as business, and the hope is that he will value his property at it's worth its prospective worth as well as it's present value. If he does this he will certainly put on the corner that bears his name a steel frame building that will not be outclassed for fifty years to come. In this way that valuable corner can be fully utilized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
DOG TALKS" OVER PHONE.
Lost Canine Recognizes His Masters
 Voice and Proves Ills Identity.

From the Newark Star.
 The following tale is not from the pen of a nature story faker, but is vouched for by Patrick Coffey, stableman for a big grocery concern in Bloomfield. Coffey Is the owner of a fox terrier which an- swers to the name of Rover. A few days ago the animal was stolen and Coffey felt very bad over his loss. He offered q reward for the return of the dog, but there was no response. Friends in Orange were told of the disappearance of the animal and yesterday one of the members of the family saw a boy leading a dog that resembled Rover according to the description furnished by Coffee
 He called Rover and the dog answered with a bark and a wag of its tail. The young man got hold of the string and then the boy, who was an Italian dis appeared.
 The fox terrier was taken into the home of the young man and then Coffey was called up by telephone and told that it was believed that Rover had been found.
 To make sure, however, the animal was placed on a high stool near the telephone and then the receiver was placed to the dogs ear.
 ''Is that you, Rover?" shouted Coffey, and the dog, recognizing his masters voice, answered back with a number of joyous parks.
 Then he jumped from the stool and ran around the room. wagging his tail and showing the pleasure he evidently felt.
 The intelligent little animal has been returned to Coffey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
HEAVY MUD FOR AUTOISTS.
One Car Is Fired Upon From Shrub
 bery on Roadside.

Pittsburg J., July 19--With all traces of their original color concealed beneath inches of incrusted mud and dust, the motor cars entered in the Glidden tour arrived here today from Canton, Ohio. [. The first car to arrive was the pilot which was closely followed by the com mittee car which arrived about o'clock. The run from Canton was the most trying the tourists have encounteredd in the en- tire run. While mud had been encoun- tered in many places, nowhere was there such rough roads and obstacles that would test driver and car as on the 125 mile stretch run today
 When the committee met tonight there were thirteen penalties announced This is the greatest number for any one days run thus far.
 Near Darlington. sixty miles west of Pittsburg the car driven by Charles Jar diner and occupied by R. H. Rucker and A. D. McLanehan of Cleveland and F. l.. Estey of Chicago. was fired upon from the roadside by unknown persons in the shrubbery. No one was injured, but two bullets of thirty eight calibre were found embedded in the tonneau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
Libraries for Rural Schools

Chairman Blasingame of the Ala bama Library association has prepared a bill providing for an annual appro- priation by the state of $7500 for the establishment and promotion of rural school libraries. The idea is to have the state add to private subscriptions an equal amount of public moneys.
 If each county had a county school superintendent as competent as Su- perintendent Blasingame himself 1t would be better to adopt the travelling library plan, the county superintend- ent to be in his county its director and manager But the legislature has refused to provide for competent supervision of the rural schools, and the Blasingame bill is perhaps as good a measure as this state is capable of assimilating.
 Alabama has fewer libraries and fewer books in them in proportion to population than any other state, and the states name Is dangerously near the bottom of the literacy test. Some thing should be done to kep Alabama from becoming the most illiterate state in the union, and the Blasingame bill would certainly help to avert so great cbap1a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
AWARE EFT SAPERE.

By w. E. Vasser. Enter the happier statel
 Behold, the glowing portal! Fair roses are blooming before 1t, White turtle doves lowering OCT It. Sweet hormonies flowing from out it. Ignore { no longer, nor doubt it, The ha oy life of man and wife,
 The golden prime of mortal! Blossom wreathed arches reveal
 Bright scenes of fairy wonder All pleasures are doubled behind them. So generous love has designed them The banquet, the music the laughter. Are doubled; and memories after And ties that feel rose-soft are steel
 That naught but death can sunder Restful the pleasures there,
 And sweet the invitations To exquisite jessamine closes And bowers of orange and roses, Where duties are winsome as graces And love gilds the quiet home places, And hearts that share the smarts of cars
 Find soothing consultations. The tendril-clasped barriers disclose
 Most wondrous transformations The miracle working of kisses, Arily bridging abysses, Easing life's arduous climbing, Its dreary envirous subliming, And bringing repose where myrtle and
 rose
 Shed fragrant exhalations. Enter the happier state,
 The life of welded mortal. Therein are the bright flowers springings The mellow chimes tunefully ringing. The fullness of life is there teenning. And real the fond lover's dreaming, Enter the gate, where joys await
 The earthly heavens portal'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
m the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Get move on you, then keep going.
 The larger the bluff the smaller it looks when called.
 Some peoples trouble sare enough to make others laugh.
 It is wonderful what lot of kissing little mouth can do.
 Some people derive lot of satisfaction from their dlssatisfactions.
 When 1t comes to understanding him self, man seldom overdoes 1t.
 The babblng brook, like a babbling man, is unable to keep it's mouth shut.
 In accounting for others the bookkeeper does a little work on his own account.
 It requires lot of strenuous will power for girl of 25 to act as if she didn't care to get married
 Tell woman about year after mar riage that she might have done better and aha will not danv it