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The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
WILLIE LEWIS OFF TO FRANCE.
American Boxer Will Try Skill With
Foreign Pusilists.

New York, March 10.-Willie Lewis
left for France on the American line
steamship Philadelphia. Lewis will at
tempt to clean up all the fighters in
France during the two months he will
be there Already he is guaranteed
three matches, and Victor Breyer, the
French sporting man who arranged
for Lewis to go to France, will hold
the first contest at the Society for the
Promotion of English Boxing.
Lewis has contracted to fight any
American up to 1855 pounds, any Eng
1ishman up to 40 pounds, and any
Frenchman at any weight. Willie will
not receive less than $3.50 for his end
in any of his fights.
"I intend to learn French while I'm
away" said Lewis today. "My wife.
who is going along with me. told me
nv education has been confined too
much to fighting SO 1 think I'll show
her a few things by learning languages.
| expect to be kept pretty busy all the
time that am away. In fact. I've de-
cided to do the Tommy Burns act and
bring home some Of the foreigners
money"
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
GUN TARGETS IN THE BARRELS.
But an Officer Thought They Held
Beer and Seized Them.

Pittsburg, Kan, March 10.-The
last search and seizure warrant issued
upon the complaint of Assistant Attor-
ney General Steussi was served here
Monday and caught carload of "blue
rocks" belonging to the Pittsburg
club. The entire proceedings, how
ever, was done through the ignorance
of Steussi. who thought when he saw
a hundred or more barrels unloaded
from a car and stored in the building
owned by Sam Knecht, a wholesale
beer agent, who used the building for
the purpose of storing beer and whisky
prior to the beginning of the anti
liquor crusade. that Knecht had OPEN
ed for business again. The building
has been vacant for the past three or
four months, and was secured by the
gun club for the storing of the blue
rock targets to be used at the inter-
state tournament here next month.
When the warrants were placed in
the hands of the officers to serve,
Steussi instructed them to secure a
number of dray wagons. load the bar
rels into them and make a parade
along Broadway to a room where they
were to be stored in order to impress
the saloon faction that he was not to
be trified with.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Items From Washington.

Washington. March 1o.-Louis M.
Ipson is appointed ostmaster at Plev-
ma, Kan, vice L. w. BlaiSdell, resigned,
and William Drake at Goodnight,
Ok, vice NJ. C. Smith, resigned.
R. G. White has been appointed
postmaster at Clinton, Douglas county
Kan. and Mrs. Emma L. Lloyd post
master at Norwood. Bourbon county,
Kansas.
Elbert Charity of Burlington. Kan.
is appointed a clerk in the treasury
department, and Mrs. Nettie Cook of
Washington. Ok. a teacher in the
Santa Fe, N. M, Indian school.
Rural delivery services have been
established, to commences May /, our
of Hardesty, Texas county, and Logan.
Beaver county, Ok, to serve 1o4 and
102 families, respectively.
The house committee on fisheries
has reported favorably the Long-Mur-
dock bill to establish a $3.50 govern
ment fish hatchery In Kansas. How
ever, the committee struck out the
provision in the Murdock bill fixing
the location in Butler county. The fish
commission will select the location.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
A BIG BROOM CORN CROP.
Allen County Farmers Sell Their Cane
for SS4 Per Ton.

Messrs. Ed and Jake Ericsson, two
OF our very best farmers, who have
been raising broom corn for the past
twenty years, sold, this week, to Mr..
Lee Morrison, eight tons of the best
cane ever raised in Allen county. The
cane was bright color and thorough
ly dry and seasoned, and brought the
top price of s84 per ton. Mr.. Ed
Ericsson informed US that he had been
raising broom corn for twenty years
but that this was the finest crop he
ever raised, or ever saw marketed in
Allen county during that time. This
county is particularly adapted to this
kind of a crop and seldom fails to
make good yield.
The Ericsson brothers will put out
another crop this season, and If the
season is favorable, they expect to
have a larger crop than ever. The
cane was shipped from this point Sat
urday.-Ellsmore Leader.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
SCHAEFER WILL QUIT.
Match With Hoppe to Be His Last
Championship Contest.

SOAtCSC.
Chicago, March 10-when Jake
Schaefer, the title holder, and Willie
Hoppe bank for the opening shot in
their 1871 balk line billiard champion
ship match at Orchestra hall on We'd
nesday night the Wizard of the cue'
will enter championship competition
for the last time. The veteran, who has
made Chicago his home for the greater
part of his life and who has been play
ing for 35 years, has announced his in
tention Of retiring from active compe-
tition. He declares he will never again
take part in contests in which a title
is involved.
t'The game is harder than it used to
be- said Schaefer, "and T have made
up my mind that, win or lose with this
youngster Hoppe, it will be my last
match. If I lose, Hoppe may rest as
sured never will bother him again for
the emblem or the title. If I should
be SO fortunate as to defeat this ex-
cellent young man I will at once re-
turn the emblem to the donors and re-
quest that they arrange an open tour
nament to decide a new champion, or
relinQuish the emblem to the first man
who challenges for it. 1t matters not
to me who secures 1t so long as he is
q man capable Of defending 1t as have
done at various times. 1 am through.
points, for $500 a side, and the title
which the Wizard first won in 1901.
Soon after this George Sutton chal-
lenged, and through Schaefer's tardi-
ness in posting his forfeit the cham
pionship went to Sutton by default In
1903 Maurice Vignaux challenged SUIT
ton and defeated the American for the
championship, which he held until VIII
lie Hoppe went over and won the title
from the Frenchman. In December
Hoppe. who had arranged another Eur
opean invasion, forfeited his champion
shin TO Sutton who turn lost IL tf
Schaefer when the two met a year age
in this CITY
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
IN THE DRY LANDS.
Farmers Around Lamar Growing
Beets Without Irrigation.

Some of the farmers above the
ditch tried small patches of sugar
beets last season and made such
success of growing them, that the fac
tory has decided to give them an op-
portunity to see what they can do on
larger scale this season. Something
like 500 acres have been signed by the
farmers in the region above the
bitches south of Lamar, and as pres
ent indications point to a good season
for dry farming It will be test of
whether sugar beets can be grown
here without irrigatfon.-Lamar Reg
ister
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Leach and Cobb Pool Issues.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 10.-Pitts-
burg's baseball club was informed
that Tommy Leach. who has been
holding out by refusing to accept a
raise of $3.50 on his salary OF $4,000
last year, has opened correspondence
with Jimmy Callahan. manager of the
Logan Squares of Chicago. Leach has
pooled issues with Ty Cobb, leading
batter of the American league. and
both ara ready to go. to the Chicago
Independent team, which plays only
on Saturday afternoons and on SUM-
days.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Death Of Mrs. G. McFarIand.

Junction City, Kan, March 10
Mrs. Charlotte Mcfarland died at her
home here Monday. She was 81 years
old Mrs. Mcfarland was one of the
first white women of central Kansas
having located here in the late SOS.
She was one of the first school teachers
of Junction City, taking charge of the
schools here in 1860.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
McGovern Into Baseball.

Dallas, Tex, March 10.-Terry Mo
Govern, former champion lightweight
pugilist, was on the coaching lines for
the Giants in the game with Dallas.
McGovern is to go to Marlin to train
he is able to hold his own If given a
chance. Mike Don1in says McGovern is
fast enough for the best minor league
teams Of the country and is sure to be
signed by some club for 1908
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
new York g. Dallas 4.

Dallas, Tex. March 10.-A blizzard
started an hour before the game and
the New York Nationals had to cut
loose with the sticks to keep warm
The New Yorks returned to Marlin
vision will play here next Saturday
and Sunday.
Score by innings: RHE
New York ...-.-......0 1000 0 80 13 3
Batteries-Dallas, Burnett. Moore
and Kerns; New York, Wiltse, Taylor
and Bresnahan and Needham.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
clark the Only HoIdout.

cleveland. March 1o-EImer Flick was
.,ened a nap contract for 1908. Stovall.
Josh" Clarke and other hold-outs have
E;red that they will sign and only
.srJip" Clarke, the catcher, is outside
the Cleveland fold. He is expected here
hafore the last squad of players leaves
so- Macon for a conference He wants
more money and fewer restrictions.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10

Is evident Dreyfuss has his mind made
up on the Leach question and that he
will do his best to drive the little fell
low out Of organized baseball If he does
not soon come into line
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10

law and was a man of education. He
was a staunch prohibitionist. He was
county superintendent of Osgae county
from 1854 to 1870. He Is survived by
an aged wife and two daughters. DR..
Stella Kirby of Topeka and Mrs. Cora
SelIards of the QuenemO schools.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
A Cantata at the Ii. s. A. C.

Manhattan, Kan. March 10Th e
fourth annual concert of the choral
union of the Kansas State Agricultural
college will be given March 10. A
chorus of 200 voices, assisted by six
soloists, will sing Thomas cantata,
''The Swan and the Skylark.''
Those who will sing the solo parts
are Miss Lillian Kendrick. Miss Helen
Sweet, Miss Clara Biddison, Olof VAL
ley, Harry e. Porter and J. q. Martin.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Fatal Fan From a Horse.

Junction City, Kan, March To-
Sergeant Jerome Howard of troop A,
Seventh cavalry, Fort Riley. was
thrown from his horse here and re-
ceived injuries from which he died at
the post hospital.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10

fed by him. Speculation has it that
the veteran Tim Hurst may be through
service on Johnson's staff.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10

ing. He will occupy it with stock
of fancy groceries, meat market and
feed store. 1t is said that w. j.
Manson will also build at the same
time. or soon after, upon his lot next
the corner.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Now American League Umpire.

Bellefontaine, o., March 10.-It Is an
nounced here that John Miller, former
manager Of the Bellefontaine baseball
club, has received commission from
Ban Johnson as an American League
umpire Mr.. Miller is out of the city
and the announcement stands unveri-
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Lived i'm Burlingame 4s Years.

Kirby of this city is dead. after
residence in this community for nearly
forty-eight years, aged 76 years. Mr..
Kirby was born in Albany county. New
York. As a young man he practiced
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Farthest East Artesian Well.

Coolidge. KAN. March 1O.-Arte-
sian water was recently struck at
John Donahue's place east of here
The water ceased flowing In Few
daysHprobably on account OF some
obstruction. This Is the fartnest east
| that any flowing well has been round
in Hamilton county.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Burned by Escaping Gas.

Atchison, Kan, March 10.-Mrs.
Marion Jones was severely burned last
night by a gas explosion in a boarding
house She struck a match in room
which was full of escaping gas.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Knuckle Curve the --latest.

Little Rock. Ark, March 1o.-veteran
Jim Mcclure believes that e. Cicotte.
the Boston Americans pitcher, showed
what will prove the latest wrinkle in
freak curves, when he uncovered the
s1znuckle curve" 1t is pitched with the
fingers doubled and the thumb grasp
Ing the ball. The new curve breaks fast
after floating to the plate in lazy fash
ion Cicotte has been practicing 1t for
two years, and, with assistance from
Mcclure, believes he has mastered 1t.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Leach to Remain q Pirate.

Pittsburg. Pa, March 10.-"Tommy''
Leach will not go to Brooklyn or to any
other city in organized baseball. He
will play In Pfttsburg or he will not
play at all Barney Dreyfuss made this
remark when asked about the rumor
that Brooklyn had asked for Leach. II
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
New buildings for Syracuse.

Syracuse, Kan, March 10.-Mr. =.
A. Rees has sold his cornor lot JUST
across the street west from the vaiiey
State bank to w. F. Rhinenart OF
Kinsley. Mr.. Rhinhart VIII soon Pc
gin the erection of a two-story Duiio-
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
White sox IS. Oakland 6.

San Diego, March 10.-The game
between Oakland and the Chicago
Americans No. 1 was a one-sided ar
fair, the pennant winners winning bv
a score of 13 to g..
Score: RHE
chicago .-..... ........13 16 4
Oakland ..... .......6 IA a
Batteries-Owen, Smith and shaw
and Sullivan; Quick, Mcfarland
Wright and Eastwood and Lewis.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
~ Preyent the Grip.

LAXATIVE BaOM0 Quinine removes the
Look for signature Of e. W. GROVE DC.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
Defends.

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The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10

piles Cured I'm to II Days.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure
anv case of itching. blind or protrudins
piles in to IA days or money refunAed.h Soc
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-12-12

a freak ear OF corn purchased by H.
J. Sconce and Taylor Garlough. OF
Vcrmillion county, ILL.,. IN tn Indiana,
in a lot OF seed corn. instead OF having
the grains on cob had them wrapped
in core OF husks like peas in a pod.
Mr.. Sconce concluded 10 plant all the
kernels found on the freak ear To
his surprise, all the ears produced were
like the original He raised them all
and will plant the peculiar corn next
year The yield from the grains wa.
as great as from those OF regular ears.
and the kernels were large and solid.
In time. the freak ear may give rise 10
new variety OF the staple American
cereal.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-12-12

the wisdom and temperatures OF its
official acts and the absence OF ex-
IRENE radicalism to which some feared
it would lend itself. has amply vindi-
Gated Mr.. Tafts judgment. His policy
OF attraction" has puzzled and dismay-
cd the English colonial authorities and
bred in them doubts as to the wisdom
and AVAILABILITY OF their own hitherto
highly vauntcd systems OF colonial gov
eminent
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-12-12

points. to be used on improved roads
to be built under State supervision
Concrete rcceptacles viii be built at
the summit OF the hill. and the crushed
stone win be run down into the scows
through chufcs.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-12-12

Baker Bros, OF Baltimore, have a
force OF hands at work on tract OF
land ON the w T. Cook farm, near
Havrc dc Grace, fronting on the Sus-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-12-12
when Rubbers become Necessary

der 10 be shaken into the shoes. Is Just the thing
10 Use. Try Il for Breaking In New Shoes. Sold
Everywhere 2sc. Sample FRRE. Address, Al
len $. olmstcd, I.e Roy. n. Y. Don't accept any
substitute. 2snst
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quehanna, where they purpose quarry
ing and.crushing stone to be loaded on
scows and towed to Eastern Shore
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-12-12

And why should your gift not be a practical
one? Won't it be all the more appreciated
Wouldn't your friend be delighted with some new
piece of furniture, maybe an easy Chair or Rocker,
a new floor covering, or perhaps some Cut Glass
Chinaware- Sofa Pillows or Tapestries to fix
up the Coy corner. Come, we will help you solve
the gift problem.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
rurker,s wnx of Menruring TIme.

Turkeys Way of Measuring Time, Nicholas c. Adossides in The American.
 In addition to laziness. there Is iu- accuracy; the present Turkish official Is naturally inaccurate, and habit and conceit make him more so. This per haps is due~to the way in which Tur- key measures time. Twelve o'clock in the day corresponds with sunset; that Is to say, whatever hour the sun sets. 1t must always be twelve. Conse- quently the hours change always, get ting later the first half of the year and earlier in the last, which compels everybody to put his watch to daily torture. So no one in Turkey can flat ter himself that he has the exact time; the most strict of Englishmen soon loses his national punctuality. So when two Turks make an appoint ment, 1t Is within the limit of half an hour or an hour. and even then they don't generally arrive until after the time agreed on, each calculating on the utmost possible delay on the part of the other.
 Consequently the State employees are not bound down by very severe disci- pIIne; no one expects them to arrive at their oflce at any particular time especially as the majority of them go hardly at all. As for the most in dustrious. they appear for two or three hours in the afternoon only, and rather late; In the morning. State offices are usually closed. Besides this, work days are rather scarce for the race of officials. Friday is the Sabbath of the Mahometans. Saturday is the day after A feast day, and one does not do much then; Sunday the Greeks and Armen- ians remain. like good Christians, at home. and the Mahometans generally initiate so good an example; Monday Is again the morrow of a feast day We'd nesday there Is meeting of the Coun- ell of Ministers, and few employees go then to the ministry. With religious festivals added in. it is easy to un- derstand that out of the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year there are not many left to conseorate to the interests of the Ottoman Empire.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
A GOOD MOVEMENT.

The announcement that systematic and intelligent experiments are to be made in Alabama in tobacco culture comes in good time. even though 1t has been long delayed. The oldest inhabi- tant cannot remember a time when to- bacco was not grown on a small scale in various sections of Alabama. Tn the old days, half a century and more ago, almost every small farmer had his to- bacco patch and raised all he needed for his own use, as we'll as supplying the country merchants with Tong green" for their customers. It was cured and manufactured in a crude way. perhaps. but 1t was satisfactory to the people who made and used it., and saved them many a dollar which was needed for other uses. Above all. it demonstrated beyond the possibility of doubt that the weed could be grown in this State almost as easily and sure- ly as any other crop.
 We have often wondered why tobacco culture has not been made one of the prominent industries of Alabama. Per haps cotton was the reason, but if so. 1t need not be perpetual. We have never been able to understand that there could be any natural or artifi- ciaI reason for not cultivating it. When good tobacco Is profitable crop as far north as Connecticut, as we'll as along the Atlantic coast, and in por- tions of the West and Middle-West, we cannot believe that there is anything in climate or soil that will prevent it's profitable cultivation in our own State.
 The announcement made in The Ad- vertiser of Tuesday that experts have been detailed to Alabama to make thor ough and scientific experiments at to- bacco culture shows that proper inter- est is being felt in the matter, and we may expect that now it will be fully demonstrated that raising this plant can be made profitable and add another to the various resources of our people. If it's profitable production Is fully demonstrated, there need be no doubt that 1t will become one of the standard crops of the State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

When in 1s96 MT. Bryan was nomi- President. largely as the result of one speech made by him in the convention which nominated him. he was practi- cally unknown to an immense majority of the American people. He was the foremost champion of certain policies, until that time unknown in Democratic platforms and to considerable extent he was feared as an untried theorist and enthusiast. That feeling had not worn away when he was again made the leader in 1900. although thousands who had declined to vote for him in 1896 gave him earnest support in that campaign.
 With a view to trying to harmonize all elements. the nomination went to Judge Alton B Parker in 1904 and with what disastrous results we all know. Even in the localities 1t was most sought to conciliate his vote fell far short of that cast for MT. Bryan. It was time of sorrow in the Dem ocratic household. for discord reigned supreme and the task of bringing back harmony appeared we'll nigh hopeless. With an immense popular majority against our nominees and an over whelming majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate in Washington the task of dis lodging them loomed up large and portentous.
 Now that the contest for 1908 is over We may well ask the question; where could a leader be found who could have drawn the different clements of the Democratic party closer together than has been done by William Jen- nings Bryan? Men of national repu- tation who refused heretofore to sup port him went up on the stump and exerted all their ability in his behalf Both elements of the party had learned
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
Some old Time Pledges.

Chicago News. v
 Signing the pledge" is no new thing, as Is proved by researches in Italy. In- teresting particulars of what would ap- pear to be the earliest examples of written pledges to abstain from gam bling and excessive drinking are given in the Turin Studi Mediaevali" by Signor Girolamo Biscaro. who has dis covered three such documents in the archives of Milan. The first of these records Is an oath sworn on the Gos- pels by Giaeomo Pasquali and Armen- ino Duca to the effect that for two years they will abstain from gambling in Pavia or within three miles there of, and will likewise refrain from in- ducing others to gamble on their be- half; the penalty for any breach of this oath is fixed at five soldi. payable to Papio Bovaorio.
 In the second document Perano de Bono promises Uberto de Proto to ab- stain from gambling for a certain per Tod; exception being made on behalf of the game of "bismentiro," at which. however; he was not to lose more than two denarf on any one day. Further, he undertak es not to visit any inn for drinking purposes before the hours of vespers on Monday. A breach of eith- CT clause of the pledge involves pay Hent or nV6- SOtOi tO Oe 1IoNo' DJ the third document Sileto Ferrario ex- presses his willingness to pay twelve denari to his brother. Lamperio, should he be persuaded to play for money in any place of public resort or to spend more than two denari on intoxicants In any one day.
 The motive for these contracts is not stated. but 1t Is presumed that they were entered into by employees whose masters wished to keep their proclivi- ties in check. There is nothing in the documents to suggest the existence of any organization for the promotion of temperance. The honor of being first in the field in this respect. therefore, still rests with Germany. where two temperance societies were founded in the sixteenth century.
 Of these. the Order of Saint Chris topher was formed by Sigismund de Diettrichstein on January IS, 1517. and the Order of Temperance by the Land grave of Hesse on December 25. 1900. The members of the one order were pledged to abstain from toast drink ing, and the members of the other undertook not to drink more than sev- en glasses of liquor at a time, and that not oftener than twice a day.