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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-06-13
ANClEkTS NOT INFERIOR TO
TRAINED MEN OF TODAY.
Tablets Found In Ruins Of Babylon
Cast Insight Into Life Of Old
Community That Is Most
Interesting.

Indt among tne ancient bdDS lOHl-
ans, 5000 years B. c., there were law
yers Of rare ability, real estate men OF
more than ordinary shrewdness in
driving and clinching bargain and
craftsmen with great ingenuity and
pride In their work is the opinion OF
Eugene F. Ware, lawyer. poet and
"Kansan."
In an address before the real estate
men OF Kansas City some time ago Mr.
Ware made the statement that as long
as 5000 years ago men were dealing
in real estate and that those men
were as energetic traders and as keen
In their transactions as the real estate
dealers of to-day, says the Kansas
City Star.
Mr.. Ware explained the result OF his
research into the history of the Baby
onians which has caused him TO form
this opinion. While travelling in Eu-
rope several years ago he came upon
a number OF clay tablets At the Louvre
in Paris. The tablets are specimens
uncovered by excayators who were
searching for records OF the ancient
Babylonians Several thousand OF
them have been found in the city OF
Nippur, capital OF the ancient Bsbylo-
nian state OF that name. Nippur was
one OF the largest cities OF Babylonia
situated on the banks OF canal con-
Meeting the Tigris and Euphrates riv-
ers The city was famous as the seat
OF worship OF the god Bel. chief deity
OF the Babylonian pantheon.
a tablet owned by Wr Ware is 4
replica of one in the Louvre. II re
sembles nothing so much as a cake Of
toilet soap. In color 1t is pure white
and is covered with letters OF the
cunelform alphabet The Baylonians
used tablets similar to the one owned
by Mr.. Ware for all th~ir writing. and
on these recorded deeds, leases and
other real estate transactions The
tablets were made OF white clay very
much like that used by modern sculp-
lpTN. i HfN Nailtu III N4a' llthl NIlftl-
mems as small rs pea to others the
size OF bushel basket They were
made by men who probably occupied
the same position in the Babylonian
business world as our modern public
stenographers d. A lawyer would go
10 one OF these scriyeners on the
street corners. dictate his brief TO him
and the "stenographer in clay" would
write on the tablet with a three cor.
nered stick The tablet was then
baked in charcoal oven and was
ready for use. The writing on the tab.
let's was first translated by Sir Henry
Rawlinson In 1854
The tablet owned by Mr.. Ware re-
cords a transaction between a ieweler
and n real estate man. The real es.
tate man purchased a gold ring with
an emerald from the jeweler and the
tablet records the sale and contains
the jewelers. guaranty of the ring for
20 years.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-06-13
SaQoino at Shoulders.

Are you letting yourself sag bit
at the shoulders Don't, II you want
to keep either young or well, There
10 nothing so fatally easy as to grow
round. shouldered. Keep a sharp watch
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-06-13
Cleaned Out.

Walker wonder II there were any
tramps in old Rome?
James-No fear There were too
many baths in that town.-Illustrate
Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

window. But a part Of each day has
been devoted to political conferences
and these conferences have attracted TO
the Homestead some of the biggest guns
Of the nation.
Each days list of visitors includes a
senator or two, handful Of congress
men. an occasional cabinet officer and
always and at all times one or more OF
the vigilant and energetic Taft man
ayers, including Frank Hitchcock, Ar
thur I. Vorys, George Sheldon OF New
York. and Elmer Dover of Ohio. Here
the representatives Of the Republican
national committee chose Hitchcock
to be chairman. Here all of the cam
paign conferences to date have been
held. Here the important speech with
which Taft will accept the Republican
nomination is being drafted. In fact
here are the big doings on the Repub-
lican map. Mr.. Taft will be here con-
tinuously until he is ready to go to
Cincinnati for his formal notification,
on July 81. After the 9th Hot Springs
will probably retire, temporarily at
least, to it's former oblivion. since the
personal headquarters of the ex-secre-
tary will thereafter be on the banks
of the Ohio river. Until the 9th,
however, Mr.. Taft will continue to en-
joy the bracing air, the inviting sports
and the charming comforts of this re-
sort village. His daily routine con-
tinues to include as its principal item
several hours of active recreation in
the open air. AS usual, a short time
each day will be devoted to continued
work on the speech of acceptance, to
be delivered in Cincinnati July 81, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
Mail POUCH LOST.
1t Flew Out Of a Window and Was
Seen No More.

New York. July 1s.-A postal
clerks bad aim at PHILADELPHIA
mail pouch in the New Hudston ter
minal branch postoffice was the oc-
casion shortly before midnight of a
mail robbery, followed by the arrest
or man charged with the crime. The
bundle OF letters part of a collection
or outgoing mail, volleyed from the
clerks hand, caromed off the edge of
the bag to the sill of an open window
and out into Cortlandt street, a story
below. The clerk who had lost the
bundle rushed to the window. saw a
man pick up the mail package and
hand 1t to another man standing near
by who made off with it.
man said to be the one who first
picked up the letters was captured in
quick time by night Waterman and
handed over to the police He gave his
name as Frank Webster, "a years old.
brassworker, living in Harlem. He
was held by the postal authorities on
charge of stealing United States
mall He denied knowledge of the
man who escaped with the letters No
trace has yet been found of this man
or of the stolen mail package.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
ALL ABOUT A PLANK.
One Rescued from the Kaw Causes No
End of Trouble.

George and John Stadler, two young
men living on Ash street near the
river, were arraigned in police court
on charge Of stealing a large and valu-
able plank from Joseph Lang, a neigh
Dor. Defendants We're DISCHARGED for
lack OF conclusive evidence.
All the residents of the neiehbor-
mood, men and women, were present
as witnesses. Joseph Lang, a type of
the old time riverman, testified that
he had last week, with great labor and
pains. dragged a large plank from the
river and hauled it up to his yard and
That the next night at the superstitious
hour OF midnight the defendants had
entered his yard and taken the plank
away. Mrs. Lang, wife of the prose-
cutting witness, gave her age at 6s
years She was placed on the stand
and started In right away to tell the
family history of the Langs and Stad-
lers back to the fourth generation. She
had gotten down to the parents of the
present htigants and was telling wha.
good friends they were when the
patience of the court was exhausted
and she was excused from the stand.
The Stadler boys had a room fun of
witnesses to testify that they had
dragged plank Of their own from the
river three weeks ago and had nothing
whatever to do with the Lang plank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
TOURISTS VIEW BOSTON.
The Glidden Auto Contestants to Rest
For a Couple of Days.

Boston, July 1S.-The automobiles
and their friends who are competitors
in the tour for the Glidden and Hover
trophies had the first off day of the
present trip in this city today, and as
guests of the Bay State Automobile
association enjoyed an excursion to
Nantucket beach where an elaborate
program had been arranged for them
Tomorrow too, has been left open for
the tourists and many of them will
sail down Massachusetts Bay again as
guests of the Bay State automobile as
ISOLATION. Monday active work will be
resumed and 1880 a. m. will find the
competing cars in line for the day run
which will bring them to Poland
Springs Me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

A Huge Granite Boulder From Yer
mont Is Placed

Emporia, July 1S.-Another monu-
ment has been put on the grave of
the late Senator Preston B. Plumb. in
Maplewood cemetery. 1t is a large
granite boulder from Montpelier, VT.
and is about three feet high and twice
as long. 1t is in its natural state, and
is as rough and unhewn as when
taken from its native mountain home.
On top of the boulder a brass plate
bearing the inscription, Plumb" is
carved, and at the head Of the grave
is small granite stone capped by a
brass plate bearing the dates of birth
and death of the senator On a
child's grave in the Amos H. Plumb
lot is a boulder similar to the large
one in appearance though consider
ably smaller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
Mr.. Wilmarth,s Statement.
Topeka, Kan, July 18.
To the Editor of the State Journal:

IOpeka, hdn., July 10.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
In the Journals account of the
burning of the Topeka Box & Barrel
factory yesterday, it says:
&c. E. Feurt, manager of the plant
blames the fire department for de-
lay of several minutes. He said. we
had an alarm turned in from two
boxes and then not getting a re-
Spouse I telephoned in. 1t was then
several minutes before the wagons be-
gan to show up"
The following are the facts: The
fire department received the alarm
from the Independent Telephone
company at 9:49, and the hose and
chemical companies at station and
the companies at station s responded
imme diately. This l know, as 1 was
at headquarters at the time and drove
Immediately to the fire, number 2
companies going at the same time,
and found the companies from sta
ton already there. The chief opera
tor of the Independent Telephone COM
pany informs me that they received
the alarm from the Santa F'e hospital,
and did not receive any alarm from
the telephone at the box factory.
The boxes that Mr.. Feurt refers to
were not the city fire alarm boxes, but
were the A. D. T. call boxes that
connected with the D. d. T. central
office. Mr.. w. c. Carswell. manager
Of this company states to me that
they received no alarm from any of
their boxes at the factory.
Upon reaching the factory I found
the fire under good Roadway and
spreading rapidly. and the woodwork
on the north side of the viaduct was
already burning.
There was no delay whatever upon
the part of the fire department in re-
spending to the alarm when re-
ceived. G. o. WILMARTH,
III I,oI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

to warrant the location there of the
temporary Republican national head
quarters. There have been political
caucuses in Hot Springs before, but
this peaceful little town never joined
the roll of rural fame, headed by IA
miliar Oyster Bay, until the ex-secre-
tary of war, with his retinue, arrived
within it's confines a few days after the
Republican convention took it's ad-
journment.
There are a number of different Re-
publican headquarters today. The big
central bureaus are not yet opened.
Sheldon is working in New York with
his drag-net out for campaign cash.
Hitchcock is in New York laying gen.
eral lines for his national organization
Vorhys is back in Columbus, Ohio,
getting ready for the Buckeye fire
works. Charles Taft and his associates
are at Cincinnati, opening headquarters
at the Sinton hotel. Lastly, and most
important of all, the candidate himself
is here at Hot Springs. Therefore.
while New York and Washington and
Cincinnati and other American metro
polises may claim temporary fame from
the campaign now opening, it is Hot
Springs which claims the greatest fame
of all Hot Springs is the heart and
center of the Republican campaign, and
will continue so for some time. Mr..
Taft and his party are comfortably To-
Gated in commodious apartments in the
Homestead, a spacious, attractive sum-
mer hotel which has long been a
mecca for recuperating politicians. But
never has the Homestead been visited
by greater men than during the last
ten days. Mr.. Taft has insisted upon
devoting majority OF each day to
exercise. He has ridden his horses
across the broad plains of Virginia and
he has consistently golfed on the links
which spread out beneath his chambe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

the Republican candidate for president
You will look a long while on the
map before you find the little town of
Hot Springs and yet in one minute
you can find it in any newspaper in
the United States! Such is fame.
Nesting away from the heart of Bath
county, on the extreme edge of Old
Virginia, Hot Springs almost hides be-
meath the shadow of the Allegheny
mountains. And as far as an unob-
serving world is concerned the shadows
would never have been dispelled be-
meath the glare of the searchhght of
publicity save for Hot Springs good
fortune in offering William H. Taft
sufficiently attractive natural charms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

to continued conferences with his po-
litical managers, who are sweeping
the national campaign into tangible
shape. Here every comfort and every
convenience is apparent, and the net
result is shown in the Refrigerated
health Of the nominee himself. Each
Sunday the secretary and his family
attend the tiny Episcopal church here.
81 jump up and down when I'm
happy" declared the New York girl.
II can imagine your jumping up" re-
sponded the Boston damsel, "but I
think the law of gravitation must be
responsible for the alternating de-
scents. louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
III Health Causes Suicide.

Liberal. Kan, July III. T. Law
renee, farmer who lived twelve
miles northwest of Liberal. committed
suicide. He cut his throat In two
places and an empty bottle lay on the
ground where he had fallen. 1t is be-
heved that he swallowed the entire
contents of the bottle. He leaves a
widow and four children. Ill health
and reverses brought about the deed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
A Collision on Great Western.

Leavenworth, Kan, July 1S.-The
Chicago Great Western passenger
train No. 2 from Kansas City ran into
Kansas City & Northwestern switch
engine near the road bridge at the
Soldiers home late Friday. Both en-
gines were damaged. The switch en-
CINE was thrown off the track. w. ].
Morris. the engineer of the Great
Western train, reversed his engine and
jumped. His right leg was broken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
A MODEST SALIVA GIRL.
Asks $4,000 from N. w. Sly in a
Breach of Promise Suit.

Salina, Kan, July 1S.-A breach of
promise suit has been brought here
by Miss Alice Bowes against n. w.
Sly claim agent for the Union Pacific
railroad. She asks $4,000 damages.
The wedding was to have taken place
last December, she says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
HOW TAFT LIVES.
His Vacation at Little Village
OF Hot Springs, Virginia.
Almost Hidden Beneath Shadow
of the Alleghenies.
HAS MANY VISITORS.
Include Republican Leaders
From All Over Country.
Will Remain Until the 9th of
July.

Hot Springs. Va, July 1S-Oyster
Bay awoke one morning to find itself
famous. Now Hot Springs is dupli-
eating the sensation. What Roosevelt
did for Oyster Bay. Taft is doing for
Hot Springs and as the former is the
summer governmental center of the
Union SO the latter Is the summer DO
litical center of Roosevelt's party and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

We wish to extend our sincere thanks
to our friends and neighbors for their
kindness and beautiful flower offer
iIgs, especially the horseshoers, at the
death Of our son and brother, John
Wesley Walter.
MIR AND MRS. WALTER,
BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18
GOOD THINGS
FOR THE AUTO

Measured by its importance to tho
Automobile the Woodwork Tread
II the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03

group. It took about two months
for him to get over the wonder Of
splendid sunsets. In time he got used
to the sunsets and beside this in
evitable daily phenomenon there are
but the sunrise and the food and ebb
tide to fall back on. His duties were
largely joke. There was nobody to-
talk TO but natives and even when
Reid got to understand their lingo he
was not much better OF.
The worst thing was the fact that
the world was always half a year
ahead OF him. His newspapers and
letters were six months old when he
got them. He wrote that the one
thing that was keeping up his spirits
was the prospect Of seeing the Ameri-
can battle-ship fleet sail past. He
waited In vain for this pageant. The
delay In mails had put him In the
awkward fix Of writing to friends who
had been months ia the grave. He
called himself the loneliest man in the
world and this loneliness soon became
a disease. He was sick Of the spar
king beauty Of the Pacific with its
monotonous sunshine and soft trade
winds. What he wanted was a real
Canadian snowstorm and somebody to
talk to.
After while Reid spent his days
in hammock when he was not eat
ing and drinking. He ended 1t by
shooting himself, first writing a caus.
tic letter to his firm telling them that
Il is only once in a while that an
anywhere near normal man can be
an exile and keep his grip on his
nerve. A coroner's Jury journeyed
over to Reid's stronghold and re-
turned a verdict denouncing the cruel.
ty Of cutting a man of from the rest
OF his kind
Wherever I am going wrote Reid
to a friend, there viii be somebody
else there"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03


lei F. Lafean Of Pennsylvania hopes to
see congress indorse at its next ses.
sion.
The proposed highway will begin at
the White House. and viii 20 straight
to the historic scene OF struggle that
virtually decided the civil war, since
It established The fact that The war
would thereafter be fought mainly in
the seeding states. the confederacy
having failed IN its aim of invading
the. enemy's- territory.
The project is a most ambitious one,
but It has the support Of 50 many dis
tinguished men that It Is hard TO see
how It can fail Of passage.
The time selected for its introdue
ton into congress could not have been
more appropriate. for on February IL
next vii be celebrated the oaehun-
dfedth annlxes A tle blf1h og the
nlAn slo saved the republic
= the mighty monument that tou.
sza ever the whole country for mlles
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03

I'D ROGRESs made In food and drug
4 inspection and legislation during
1907 Ia explained Ia datail in the year
book Of the department Of agriculture.
Just issued. The book shows that
methods of manufacture were studied
BY government experts and whenever
possible assistance was given manu-
facturers in improving their methods.
BY means OF sterilization It was found
that various fruit and vegetable prod
ncts can be preserved without the
use OF chemical preservatives. The
experiments along this line resulted in
new methods for the preservation OF
pie-hiling articles and canned goods.
Extensive investigations as 70 the
use Of sulphur for drying fruit we're
made, resulting In the discovery Of
better methods for drying fruit and ia
disclosing the fact that molasses and
syrup do not contain so much sulphur
as has generally been supposed.
The study Of the influence OF cold
storage on the value or food gained
much headway. Among the more I'm.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03

nT nTAsHINGTON.-The go and rs
w horsepower millionaires that
magnificently swell the population OF
the capital Of the country innocently
and indirectly make life a burden to
their neighbors Of a less estate. Money
ID an awful nuisance, don't you see,
when It belongs to somebody else and
not to you.
The trouble Of it is that ones
friends IN the provinces ascribe even
70 the lowliest In Washington some
occult power over the pursestrings OF
the resident plutocrats.
One is always being besieged BY the
INDECENT from the home districts to
work some graft in their behalf upon
the oyer-be-dollared denizens of the
District Of Columbia.
They write to you seductively: "You
go out 50 much and know Of SO many
rich people. I'm sure you'd have no
difficulty In disposlng for me. for a
handsome sum. Of two old cIaw-foot
tables, q warming pan and q portrait
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03
FUNGUS IN STOMACH KILLS.
Grows from Pinhead to coeoanut Size,
Causing Agony to Girl.


London, Eng.-Sprouting from a
grain of cats or barley, a fungus
caused the death Of a girl it years old
In Sheffield. and an autopsy revealed
that the fungus had grown in the stom-
aeh to the size of a cocoanut The
growth had sent out roots. which had
invaded all the surrounding organs,
and the girl died In agony.
The case is held to be one Of the
strangest In medical records In this
country. About a month ago the girl
complained Of pains In her stomach,
and a dozen physicians differed in
their diagnoses. AS It turned out, all
were wrong. The girl gradually grew
worse. each day adding to her suffer
ing. until she died. The autopsy was
performed and four doctors testified
to what was found.
The doctors said that when 8 grain
Of oats or barley was eaten tiny
vegetable parasite, known as ray fun.
gus. was growing on it. This para
site was not killed by being eaten. In.
stead. Il thrived and grew until, the
size Of a cocoanut, it killed the girl.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03
japanese Diplomat Stops a Runaway

horse was plunging wildly from side
to side. driving every one pell nell for
shelter as It neared the spot where
Mr. Hanihara stood. The young
japanese. who stands about Ave feet
and is small in proportion, lodged out
of the way. but no sooner had the
horse come abreast Of him than he
made leap for the bride. The ter.
rife speed OF the enraged animal
made him miss his hold and swung
him under the horses hoofs. but be
fore he completely lost his hold he
caught a grip on The bride and swing
ing clear managed 10 climb on the
horses back and bring him to his
knees. The animal regained his feet
however, and by rearing. attempted
to throw Mr.. Hanihara from his back
but the diplomat tightened hls grip
gradually until the animal. snortng
With pain. confessed itself vanquished
When Mr. Hanihara reached the
embassy he summoned his physician
who found that the horse had tram
pied on his foot and crushed It badly.
Treatment afforded little relief. as
the bones were so badly bruised that
an abcess formed and added consider
able trouble. It is now feared that
an operation may be necessary.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-03

portant studies OF the methods Of
manufacture and preservation Of foods
and drugs were the bleached -four in.
vestlgation. the lemon oil investiga-
tion, the whisky investigation and the
investigation Of nonfermented bever.
ages alleged to contain cocaine or
other Objectionable drugs.
The experimental work Of the bu.
reau OF chemistry. the enforcement OF
the federal food and drugs act, numer-
GUS Investigations and the part played
by various states In the enactment OF
laws regulating the manufacture and
sale Of foods are some OF the subjects
treated In the book During the year,
out OF "A legislatures which met, 40
enacted laws relating to the purity OF
foods.
The bureau Of Chemistry established
ten additional branch laboratories
throughout the country, where sam
pies Of food and drugs collected by In
spectors under the direction Of a chief
inspector are sent. During last year
7.04l samples OF foods and drugs we're
sent to these laboratories. resulting IN
323 hearings and the transmittal OF IL
criminal cases to the department or
justice for prosecution. One OF the
greatest difficulties encountered was
to secure sufficient number Of In
spectors or chemists possessing the
requisite training and experience In
foods and drugs.