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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
ABOUT JUNGLE JOE. /"
Continued from PAGE One,


shackieford has had one preroga-
i've ana one distinction in the house
He has annually delivered a sneecb
against the rules and has denounced
the speaker as a tyrant. He has
neld TO this prerogative for years and
has made his speech with dramatic
erect. while his associates on his
own side or the house have toined
with the Republicans In Laughter al
MS earnestness> But Shackieford is
not without sense of humor He
has laughed at himself, and on sew
erai occasions he has gone directly
from the floor, after delivering his
castigation of the speaker. to isurb
over the incident with the speaEer
and ask If he had not improved in
the delivery.
But now Shackleford has the
laugh on his party, which has paid
no neeo 10 his TRADE against the
tional platform has recognized
Shackleford; made his one sneech
an issue, and Mr.. Kern, the Candidate
Tor vice president, has borrowed his
last speech against the rules to make
II g. part Of his address in accepting
OF prophecy, and it rests on our
hitherto unrecognized leader, Dorsey
Shackleford, of Missouri
Shackdeford and Speaker.
But even the worm will turn: and
SO did ShackIeford. When John
sharp Williams began his celebrated
hhouster in the house last March.
and kept the Democrats marching
through the aisles to be counted on
divisions, and kept them in their
seats for weeks to answer to I'M
necessary roll calls on ridiculous
points of order and motions. Shackle-
ford confessed that he had been in
error and that his party had demon
strated the futility of all his efforts
to reform the rules. He refused to
march and he refused to sit in his
seat and respond to useless roll calls.
When one of his associates chaffed
him with neglect of duty and called
attention to his latest trade against
the rules, Dorsey f1ared UP and is re-
ported as expressing his real opinion
make an ass of myself in a, new line.
Here have I been trying to demon
strate that these rules are arbitrary
and unnecessary and now YOU want
me to join in a movement to demon
strate that they are, and that 1 have
been wrong in everything 1 have
said in my annual speech on this
| floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

The capital stock of the Oklahoma
City baseball team has been doubled
and the Moist regime now values the
franchise at $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
Kern-ShackIeford Acceptanc

acceptance,
But Shackleford has his reward. His
speech has become one of the great
issues of the Democratic campaign,
and it has been absorbed by the Dem
cratic candidate for vice president
Mr.. Kern accepted Shackleford's mis-
takes as to facts as well as his de-
nunciation, and based his attack on the
speaker on the story that he had re-
fused to allow the house to consider
public building bill after three-fourths
of the members had signed a round
robin asking for special rule.
OF course Mr.. Kern did not know,
as Shackleford did, that this round
robin method of asking for a special
rule was only another way of ask
ing the speaker and the committee on
rules to accept full responsibility for
a large appropriation in the face of
deficit in the treasury when the COM
mittee on appropriations strenuously
opposed that appropriation and the
committee on public buildings and
grounds did not care to make the eff
The regular course for such a bill
was to place 1t on the calendar and
make a contest for its consideration
without a special rule, or move to sus-
pend the rules and pass the bill. But
This committee while asking the speak
er for a rule to pass the bill, did not
have courage to even renort the bill.
The attacks of the Democrats on
the speaker of the house or repre-
sentatives is simply part of the po-
litfcal campaign like that on the spas
modic. cratic, sensational, spectacu-
lar and arbitrary exercise of power
bv President Roosevelt in the preced-
ing Democratic platform. where 1t was
charged that President Roosevelt had
made himself "a satire upon the con-
gress. courts. and upon the settled
practices and usages of national and
international law.
Uncle Joe and Speaker Reed.
Anv man who knows anything
about the rules of congress and
the power of the speaker knows
that the rules are substantially as tney
were when Speaker Reed counted
quorum in the 51st congress, exciting
the wrath of Buck Kilgore of Texas,
who kicked down the doors, ana tne
same as adopted by the Democratlc
52nd congress which SUCCEEDED ana
which was presided over by Speaker
Crisp of Georgia, who did just what
Sneaker Reed had done, without pro-
test from Mr.. Bryan and MS Demo-
cratic associates, who rather reJolceo
in the opportunity to foiio" Reeo e@-
He knows that the power of the
speaker has scarcely increased IN
the last thirty years. but on the
contrary, under the presene SPEAK, ~
minority than ever before by allow
ing their chosen leader to make the
minority committee selections
Cannon's Consideration.
Let John Sharp Williams testify on
that point:
saThere never was a time when a
minority leader was treated with more
than Mr.. Cannon has
shown. In the first place, it has not
been customary for the speaker OF
house to consult the elec-
oh0f1f mmittAA
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House Rules Too Weak.

II won't do it. This performance
OF the minority is giving daily and
hourly demonstration that the rules
or the house are not strong enough
and that the speaker has not hall
enough power to make a lot of fool:
stop their foolishness and attend tC
the public business. This filibustel
is the best endorsement the rule'
ever had, and the Speaker might wei
have inspired it to show his owT
party that somebody must hav,
authority to check such foolishnes,
when engaged in by men who ar,
supposed to be the main cogs in
representative government.
Members Were Like Mob.
1.-THE Democrats back In the Fifty
first congress acted like members o
mob or minstrel show and com
PEELED Tom Reed to make new rule
to enable the house to attend to tn
public. business, and when we go
control we had to adopt the sam,
rules for fear the Republican
minority would initiate our foolisl
example. And here we are, just af
ter / have delivered my speecl
against the rules and the tyranny O
the speaker, giving demonstration
that no rules can be drawn stron,
enough and no power of the speake
made arbitrary enough to compe
men to act like men when they ar
determined to act like fools"
And Shackleford seized his hat ant
left the hall, to stop at the speaker
room on his way out and express tn,
hope that he would exercise all thu
power he could seize to put down tn,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
"RoOt batted Tor Roach in the nth
~sMilton out on foul strike.
80: ..:..OOoOo11OOooooOo1O1-

zone out when winning run was made.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

Tomorrow the Cooleysox will face the
Jobbers are a little ahead of the To-
peka team in the different series be-
tween the two teams. But the job
bers will have to fight hard and an in
teresting time is expected in the windy
villa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

The Webb City team has signed Geo
Dacanier the southpaw finger of the
independence o. K. league team. He
is due to put in his appearance here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

The locals have been trotting extra
heats pretty frequently here of late but
they had harder time yesterday than
at any previous time this season. Larry
Milton has tried to defeat Topeka in
every series played this season and has
yet to score a victory. He put up a
mighty game fight for IS innings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

The locals were fielding some. Only
one error in Is innings is record that
is seldom equalled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

Art Queisser is back with the Wichi-
ia team, since leaving Independence.
Art will add ginger to the team, which
is badly needed. Outside of Butch
Freese and Jay Andrews he is as good
a drawing card as there is in the
league.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Strictly To Business.

The Leroy Reporter tells this story
about John. E, Watrous, of Burling-
ton, one of the deputy collectors of
internal revenue: Travelling along a
country road Mr. Watrous was at
tracted by frightful screams coming
from little house not far from the
road He ran to the house and found
that a little boy had swallowed a
quarter, and his mother was frantic.
Mr.. Watrous caught the little fellow
by. the heels, and. holding him up,
gave him few shakes. whereupon
the coin dropped on the floor.
Well, mister" said the grateful
mother, you certainly know how to
get it out. Are you doctor?"
No, madam" replied Watrous,.
I'm collector of internal revenue.
Topeka State Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Having A Good Time.

A wholesale .scorn of physical ills
is good thing, according to the
philosophy of a boy in the State
School for Dependent Children. who
wrote his, father thus:
Dear Papa: We children are
having good time here now. Mr..
Sager broke his leg and can't work.
We. went on picnic and it rained
and we all got wet. Many children
here are sick with the mumps. Mr..
Higgins fell off the wagon and broke
his rib, but he can work little.
The man that is digging the deep
we'll whipped us boys with a buggy
whip because we threw sand in his
machine, and made black and blue
marks on us. Ernest cut his finger
badly. We are all very happy. =
From the Delineator.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
The weather Pronhet.

II always have been under the
impression that there ought to be
society for REFRESHING information
as to symptoms of disease remarked
the phlegmatic man, land now I've
come to the conclusion that we need
another society,.one that will prevent
people from getting to know too
much or little about the weather.
am afflicted with a brother-in-law
who thinks he knows something
about the weather. and all summer
long my life and that of my wife
who takes him seriously-is made
miserable by his predictions that we
are going to have a thunderstorm
before night He keeps us in the
house when in our ordinary ignor-
ance we would go out and enjoy our.
rainless days; he drives us indoors
by knowing looks at thunder. heads
And on the one day recently when
he never spoke of the weather at all
We went on an excursion at his sug-
gestion and got soaked to the skin.
If any one will start that society
I'll be one of the charter members"
N. Y. Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
when Women Admired Whiskers.


For ages boards were the delight
of ancient beauties. The sight of
shaved chin excited sentiments of
horror and aversion. To obey the
injuctions of his bishops. Louis VII
of France cropped his hair a la POM
padour and shaved off his luxuriant
whiskers. Eleanor Aquitane, his con-
sort. found him with this uncom-
mon appearance very ridiculous and
very contemplate. She revenged
herself by becoming something more
than coquette. The king obtained
a divorce. She then. married the
Count of Anjou. who shortly after
ward assembled the English throne,
and gave him as her marriage dover
the rich provinces of Potion and
Guienne. And this was the origin
of those wars which for 800 years
ravaged France and which cost the
French nation 100000 men; all of
which, probably, had never taken
place If Louis VII had not been SO
rash as to shave off his whiskers,
by which he made himself so dis
gushing to the fair Eleanor-N. Y.
Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Unnecessarily Scared.

A young man had been calling now
and then on young lady when one
night, as he sat in the parlor waiting
for her to come down. her mother
entered the room instead and asked
him in very grave. stern way what
his Infections were
He turned very red and was about
to stammer some incoherent reply
when suddenly the young lady called
down from the head of the stairs
Mamma. mamma. that is not the
one Ladies' Home Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Effects OF Lightning.

Prof. A Herschel. in the Quarterly
Journal of the Royal Meteorological
Society for October last. describes
the extraordinary effects produced by
lightning in the midst of an open
moor in Northumberland A hole
four or five feet. in diameter was
made in the fiat, peaty ground. and
from this half dozen burrows ex-
tended on all sides. Pieces of turf
were thrown in various directions.
one three feet in diameter and a
foot thick having fallen IS feet from
the hole Investigation showed that
in addition to the effects visible on
the surface, small holes had been
bored in the earth radiating from
the large excavation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
A Fireless Locomotive.

One of the most recent inventions
in locomotives is the fireless engine
now used in Germany. ut is employ
ed for shunting work only, and is
driven by one man. The tank of the
engine is filled with steam from a,
generating station, and SO charged
will work for four or five hours. The
locomotive boiler, according to the
London Globe, is first, three-quarters
filled with ysuperheated water, and
then the steam is admitted and thor
oughly mixed. The steam is admit
,tedNat pressure of ITO pounds on
the square inch, and it is found that
only half an atmosphere of the pres
sure is lost in transferring from the
powerhouse to the engine. The fill
ing requires s or 10 minutes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Foreign

Admiral Won Rooster, commander
in-chief of the German Navy, has ac-
cepted the-presidency of the German
Navy League, which has 100000
members. $50
The suicide of Capt. James W.
Broatch has completely mystified his
friends in Cavite, who considered him
in the best of spirits.
ST. Petersburg is in receipt of a
message from Tabriz telling of recent
fatal fighting between the Persians
and Cossacks.
The rebels in Honduras are report
ed to have captured the town OF
Cholutrea and are threatening Santa
Barbara.
The London editors think Bryan
has slender chance against Taft, and
express little interest in the conven-
ton.
The Paris police have abandoned
the search for the murderer of
Adolph E. Steinheit, artist.
Investigation at Rikovsky, where
800 miners were killed, showed most
deplorable conditions.
Louise Grau, daughter of the late
Maurice Grau, was married to Maui
rice. Came at Paris.
Pope Plus says he will rebuild the
old Lateran palace, the former resi-
dence of the papacy.
The Russian consul at TabriZ, Per-
sia, when Rachin Khan entered the
city at the head of batteries of artil-
lery, fed to his country villa, taking
with him a majority of the Cossacks
and leaving the lives and property
of Europeans and the consular Off
Gals unprotected.
correspondent in the United
Safes of a leading Russian newspaper
urges in strong terms the necessity
of a better understanding between
the Russian and American people.
Troops were sent to Choluteca and
Amapala, Honduras only Pacific
port to prevent the capture of these
towns by bands of raiders, presum-
ably revolutionists. The attack on
Gracias, a small town near the Sal
vador border, has aroused the gov
eminent officials to the seriousness
of the situation.
Count de Castellane petitioned the
Paris court for permission to retain
his son Jay and will also seek to OBJ
tain custody of all the children on
the ground that the mothers new
husband is not a suitable protector
for them.
Four workmen were burned to
death and IA injured in fire, the
result of a benzine explosion at Buda-
pest.
The total wheat yield in Western
Canada will be 125, 100000 bushels,
or an average of 20 bushels to the
acre.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
DIFFERENT NOW.
Athlete Finds Better Training Food.

1t was formerly the belief that to
become strong, athletes must eat
plenty of meat
This is all out of date now, and
many trainers feed athletes on the
well-known food, Grape Nuts, made
Of wheat and barley. and cut the meat
down to small portion, once day.
Three years ago." writes a Mich.
man. having become interested in
athletics. found would have to stop
eating pastry and some other kinds
of food
Il got some Grape-Nuts and was
soon eating the food at every meal,
for found that when l went on the
track. felt more lively and active.
Later, began also to drink
Postum in place of coffee and the way
/ gained muscle and strength on this
diet was certainly ssreat. On the day
of field meet in June weighed 124
pounds. On the opening of the foot
ball season in Sept, l weighed 140.
attributed my fine condition and
good work to the discrimination of
improper food and coffee, and the
using of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my
principal diet during training season
being Grape-Nuts.
Before ! used Grape-Nuts never
felt right in the morning-always
kind of out of sorts with my stom-
ach. But now when rise feel good,
and after a breakfast largely of
Grape-Nuts and cream. and a cup of
Postum, ! feel like new man."
There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read 1.-THE Road to
Weilville. in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true. and full Of human
interest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
WTmOWS,under N EW Law obtained
PENSIONS ~ 1 RoSS ~; M 5. 3.

In France law has just been
enacted which Furnishes with heavy
fine and several months imprisOn.
ment any conductor or owner of an
automobile who. having caused any
sort of accident, or who having been
in a collision with any other vehicle
or individual or object, does not
Immediately stop and give his name
and address to thespolice or to other
representatives of the law. This
punishment is to be specifically inn
posed, quite irrespective of the mer-
its of the case itself.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
LATEST NEWS
Domestic
By TELEGRAPH

g koAlAuCI 0OlupSIo, JOuu WA tNACAt
and other, leaders of the Federation
of Labor were served with papers
in Denver in suit against themeby
the w. r. Thompson Marble Com
! pany for $4,000 alleged damages
by strike and boycott.
The will of Grover Cleveland does
not indicate the amount of his estate,
the bulk of which goes to the widow.
The four children get $4,000 each,
four daughters of Q nephew get o.
600 each and a niece gets $4,000.
Fearing to tell the landlord that
she did not have the rent she owed,
Mrs. Henrietta Scadder, of New York.
committed suicide.
A coroner's jury rendered verdict
that DIR. William H. Wilson, of Phil
delphia, was poisoned by unknown
persons.
Believing that her son is the Mes
siah, Mrs. Grace Goodsall branded
the forehead of the lad with red
hot iron.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad has sold its hold
ings of Boston and Maine stock.
With the head cut off, the body
of Alphonse Durel, a widely known
New Orleans hairdresser, was found
at his shop, in the old French quar-
ter. There is no clue to the murder
err.
Nathan Levine, daring young
burglar, who bound Mrs. Mostyn
Cookson to her bed in the Hotel
Belmont, was sentenced to from 10
to 40 years in prison.
A side-show dancer, who turned
out to be man wearing tights
stuffed with straw, was mobbed by
an audience at Nanticoke, Pa.
\ Confident that his quest for the
North Pole will be successful Com
mander Robert E. Peary left New
York for Sydney, c.. B., where he
will join his Arctic steamer, the
Roosevelt, which left Monday on the
journey to the Northern ice fields.
One woman was burned to death,
two others were seriously hurt, and
more than 20 women and children
were rescued by firemen during a
fireE in the four-story apartment
house at 319 East Eightieth Street,
New York.
A fire on the Boston waterfront
destroyed four large piers, three
warehouses and a grain elevator,
causing loss $1,5OO,OOO. Two per-
sons are missing.
Reports that Frank j. Gould and
his wife have become reconciled are
circulated owing to the withdrawal
from the courts Of the action for
divorce.
There was a panic among 500 chill
dren in an orphanage during fire
that destroyed hotel two casinos
and other buildings at College Point,
l.. /.
The police of New York are in
vestigating the death in a sanitarium
of Mrs. Frank APPEL, an actress and
divorced wife of wealthy man.
A Chicago jury has decided that a.
saloonkeeper must pay $1,000 dam
I ages to the widow of man who
committed suicide while intoxicated.
Three members of the crew of the
monitor Nevada we're injured by an
explosion during maneuvers at New
London, ct.
Fritz Weber. "a grocer of Bloom
field, N j., sold eleven cents worth
of cheese in which a $1,000 diamond
was found.
Whitecaps killed John A. Hays and
his eight-year-old daughter in dis
pute over claim at Culbertson,
Mont.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
!. A New Auto Danger.

Hedgehogs are said TO be causing
lots of trouble for Bangor automobil-
lists. who are fond of the wooded
highways score of miles from the
city. In the evening these spiny,
bristling animals are often found in
the roads, and. fascinated. by the
glare of the head lamps of the motor
cars. refuse to bulge from the track,
with the result that they are often
run over. The danger lies in the
sharp quills which pierce the tires.
making puncture which cripples
the car and is hard to mend.-.Kene-
bee Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Overlooked.

Aunt-Tommy. | put three pies in
here yesterday, and now there is only
one. How is that?
Tommy Please, it was so dark,
aunty, didn't see that one! Punch.
A Decorative Accomplishment.
$50 you are going to teach your
daughter music?"
YES answered Mrs. Thingilt,
Just enough to give us an excuse
for having a piano lamp and ma
hogany music rack. - Washington
Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
TWO CURES OF ECZEMA.
Baby Had Severe Attack-Grand-
father Suffered Torments with
the Disease-Owe Recovery
= to Cuficura

SIN 1884 my grandson, babe, had an
attack of eczema, and after trying the doc
tors to the extent of heavy bills and an in
crease of the disease and suffering, l rec
commended Cuticura and in few weeks
the child was well. He is to-day strong
man and absolutely free from the disease
A few years ago | contracted eczema, and
became an intense sufferer. A whole win
ter passed without once having on shoes,
nearly from the knees to the toes being
covered with virulent sores. tried many
doctors to no purpose. Then l procured
the Cuticura Remedies and found immedi-
ate improvement and final cure. NJ w.
LaRue. s45 Seventh St.. Louisville, Ky,
April IS and May IA, 1907"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Rush Electric Plant.

Martinsburg, w. Va. Especially -
Officers of the Martinsburg Power
Company have awarded the contract
for the 2,000-horsepower electric
power plant at Dam No. 4, on the
Potomac River, to Contractor w. NJ.
Kefauver, of Baltimore. Work will
be commenced Immediately. The
big plant has been in course of con-
struction for the past year by Con-
tractors Shot & Brubaker, of Penn
sylvania, who abandoned the task.
The plant, which is about one-third
completed, will cost $150,000. 1t
will be built of concrete.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
Vacation For Horses.

Washington, D. G. Especially -
Several days ago officials of the Post
office Department decided that every
horse owned and used by the de-
partment in this city would receive
hereafter 80 days annual vacation
and be sent to a fine pasture. Near
by rural carriers are making appli-
cations requesting that their horses
be allowed 80 days. annual leave,
the same as the Washington horses.
There are $4,000 rural carriers, and
each one has horse. This would
cost $780,000