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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
FRON OTHER PENS
THE LATE PANIC

1t is certainly in order to congratu-
late the banking and business COM
munity on the disappearance of the
signs of the recent stringency. The
New York banks have resumed full
cash payments and reported a substan-
tial surplus over their legal reserves.
In Chicago and other western centers,
where conditions were at no time near
ly so bad as in the east, clearing house
certificates have not been used for
some time, and the extra legal emer-
gency currency" is rapidly being re-
tired. The premium on currency is q
thing of the past even in Wall street,
and country banks are again sending
their surplus cash to the money mar
kets.-Chicago Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

New York society women are to
pose as models for living pictures. But
he it borne in mind that they are not
to wear the CARDS used by the women
who posed as Giving pictures" on the
stage when this class of tableaux was
so sensationally popular a few years
ago. Nay. nay. They are to simulate
the grand danes of an almost forgot
ten past when considerably more
clothes were worn than are now popu-
lar with women in "high" society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
KANSAS COMMENT
OPEN THE DOORS.

Victor Murdoch has struck a new
leao. He wants open session for all
committee meetings. Congress is run
py committees now" said he. Debate
on the floor counts for nothing. Leg
lslallon is whipped into shape by the
committees and forced through con-
gress under special rule. There is
Pracllcaily no way to amend a bill on
PUBLIC know what is going on Hur-
rah for Murdock.-Wichita Beacon.
Doubtless there is much argument to
be advanced in favor of Mr.. Murdock's
proposition. 1t is pretty well understood
py the country at large that SO i'm
mense is the volume Of business trans
acted In the house annually that it
would be entirely out of the question
to treat 1t any other way than through
committees. But. because the proceed
rarely get to the public, the public fire.
quently does not understand the why's
and wherefores Of the defeat or sup
port OF the bills introduced. The open
ing OF the doors would be taking the
people into congress confidence.-Leav-
enworth Times.
ENROLMENT INCREASED.
The spring term at the University of
Kansas will open February 10. The
classes will be organized at that time,
making 1t possible for a student to
enter and take UP the work just the
same as In September. Prospective
students are numerous. and the en-
rollment Is expected to pass the 2,000
mark.-University Bulletin.
MISSOURI GOING DRY.
If the present anti-saloon wave
keeps on, Missouri will be as dry as
a prairie bone in two years. Sixty
seven of the la counries have voted
out the saloons, fourteen elections
will be held to vote for and against
them in the next four weeks, while
there are more than twenty other
similar elections to be held in Febru-
airy and March.-Atchison Globe.
HUGHES SERVES PUNCH.
Governor Hughes served some potent
sort Of punch at a banquet the other
wore out all the wet towels they could
find next day. That winds up the
Hughes boom. The innocuous cocktail
of Mr.. Fairbanks shelved him in a
hurry, although there is no record that
1t ever hurt anybody, or left a decayed
taste In human embellishments Ga
Zette.
BETTER THAN A BIG NAVY.
One-fifth of the money of the entire
world belongs to the United States.
gest navy.-Parsons Sum-
CARRIE NATION MISPOKE.
Carrie Nation says that she expects
to meet every brewer in the hereafter.
And we thought Carrie was working
all the time to secure an entrance to
the other place.-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

One of the lightest criminal dockets
in the history of the district court Of
Shawnee county is down for disposal
at the present term of the court. This
Is the best kind Of evidence of the
peace and quietude which pervades in
Topeka. And it is due to the &C.
tivity of the county officials and the
city police. Former violators of the
prohibitory law are walking in the
straight and narrow paths these days
and itinerant criminals are giving the
town the go-by.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
Santiago's Social Parade.

Toward dusk, when the lights are be-
ginning to appear in the shops and the
edition of Las Ultimas Noticias, and
the great snow-covered wall of the
Andes to the east blazes in the after
glow, the young men of Santiago gath
er in the neighborhood of the corner OF
Huerfanos and Ahumada to watch the
and very confident young men, COM
bining in their demeanor the gallantry
of their Spanish Inheritance with a GER
tain bumptiousness which-since the
war which made Chile the master of the
west coasts rather characteristically
Chilean. They stare at those who pass
some in mantas. some in French
dresses with Paris hats and Marcelled
hair-and in Spanish murmur, hall
audibly, such observations as, 1T like
tie one" And as they have not yet
quite achieved the self sufficiency OF
the young men of the Gale Florida in
Buenos Ayres-retaining still some OF
that naivete which, in the interior
causes a stranger to be watched as
they will stare even at the gringo, COM
ment on the cut of his clothes or face
tiously compare his blunt walking
boots with their long, thin ones. They
are rather irritating sometimes, these
Huerfanos corner young men, especial
" the young officers in their smart
German uniforms and one dreams OF
home and Broadway policeman
marching down upon them leisurely
with a night-stick and tanning them
away.
But the young women do not mind ii
at all; indeed, If they did not rather
like it they probably would not so ar
range their shopping that, two by two
from the Plaza down past the Hotel
Oddo, round the corner and back again
co nft this A nd
YOU will not make yourself at all pop
ular by sympathizing, for they would
only laugh and say: ooh, they're all
right. That's only their way of be-
ginning, They're quite sensible and
nice when you come to know them :
From Santiago: the Metropolis Of the
Andes" by Arthur Ruhl. in the Feb
ruarv ScribIler
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

Western railroads are said to be
contemplating an increase in the mini
mum weights of all kinds of freight.
This would practically mean an in
crease in the rates on many shipments.
Some months ago the eastern rail-
eaa DIS made a similar increase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

And now the French prophets de-
clare that the restriction of Japan
csc immigration is only a postpone
nent of serious trouble between
Japan and the United States. If such
were possible it would be mighty
good plan for the gentlemen of France
to mind their own business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

Night riders are still plying their
trade in Kentucky. 1t makes the
other states in the Union blush for
shame over the apparent inability of
the officials of that state to cope with
this disgraceful form of outlawry.
People will soon begin to think that
the peace officers of Kentucky are in
sympathy with the desperadoes and
depredators
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
Even though the weather

Even though the weather gets down
to the freezing point occasionally
these days, it might be good plan for
the department charged with the care
of the streets, to get out the street
Sprinklers and wet down the main
thoroughfares and then have them
thoroughly cleaned up. 1t would be
hard work to say just how thick the
dust is on the streets but it is thick
enough to be most annoying when
ever there is wind of any proper
fions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

primaries on the general election day.
This is an indication that these politi-
clans think they are beaten and that
a "split" primary bill will pass re-
gardless of their likes or dislikes.
Constitutional arguments are never
raised against any legislative PROPOSE
ton except as last dying gasps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

Opponents of the split primary
in the legislature under the leadership
of Mr.. Stubs have announced the
opfnion of some of their legal friends
that such primary will be uncon-
vtitutienal unless the cumbersome ma
rsaiuery OF new and separate primary
koards be created to look after these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

Walter Wellman. whose ear is ever
at the curbstone.- announces in his
usually grandiloquent style that Wall
street is whipped. president Roose-
welt and the people of the prairies and
the mountains who have stood behind
him have subjugatedthe great power"
says Mr.. Wellman. It's real kind of
him to declare US in on the deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

Reports come from the Pacific
coast that the prospects are good for
. big orange crop. 1t has been
noticed around these parts that
whether the orange crop is large or
small the retail price of oranges gen.
orally remains the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
regulations.

After all, It depends upon the repu-
Iation one has succeeded in estab-
fishing EVERYTHING that Mark Twain
writes is funny, everything that j..
Hamilton Lewis does is ridiculous,
everything that Uncle Joe" Cannon
says is profane and everything that
Roosevelt objects to Is smashed I'M
der the big stick.-Ch1cago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
A SHORT REMINDER

The destruction by fire Of the Parker
building in New York city is a sharp
reminder that (fireproof) skyscrapers
are not immune against the perils of
conf1agration. and that when one of
them does fall victim to the flames
the difficulties and dangers encounter
ed by the f1remen are immeasurably
increased.-Syracuse Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
IAsH OF PROPHECIES.

The prophets should get together. A
western seer predicts war with japan,
this year; but a foreteller In the east
arises to announce that the earth will
be destroyed meanwhile. In such d
clash of authority it becomes ques-
ton whether to build more battleships
or to get those insured that are already
in Philadelphia Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great peWs or
Sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news IT, received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
Pose,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
AMAZING vERsATIrJTy

According to a New York commenta-
tor American girls at French schools
learn nothing more useful than speak
ing French and playing on the mando-
lin. Still the girl of average intelli-
gence quickly learns to play upon the
skillet and the waffle iron when neces-
sity arises.-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
AN ALARMING SYMPTOM

Stockholders of a wrecked railway
property in New York are trying to
have the hooters thereof sent to Jail. If
they succeed it is likely the Jail remedy
for rotten financial conditions will be-
come alarmingly popular and another
panic will result, though In this case
one not shared by the public at large
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
Getting Rid of Warts.

l .
Getting Rid of Warts.
There is a man in Brookline who
passes his hand over the warty
region OF any person. just passes his
| hand over it, and the warts all go
away. This, too, shows the march Of
science, and the accompanying pro-
gress of the race toward the ultimate
goal
Forty or fifty years ago the children
IN New England had two favorite
ways of Kidding themselves of these
exerescences; one was to steal a piece
of fresh meat, rub the wart with 1t,
| then bury the meat, and as the meat
persisted SO did the wart. This opera
ton. to be effectual. must be carried
out with the utmost secrecy from be-
ginning to end. A burial at cross
| roads is preferred. Then there was a
| trick with a stolen string. The boy
| tied as many knots in it as there were
again was done secretly. There were
boys who rubbed milk weed on their
warts with good results.
The stolen meat remedy is a very
old one. There were variants. When
Bacon was a youth in Paris-before
he wrote the works of Shakespeare,
Marlowe, Burton, Voltaire and Arte-
mus Ward-the wife Of the English
am bassador rubbed his warts with
| lard and then nailed the lard, with
d
her chamber window which was to
| the south. The warts went away
| within five weeks; but, like Catiline,
they returned. Bacon, who would not
| have lied about little thing like this,
| also mentioned the rubbing of warts
| with a green elder stick and then
burying the stick to rot in muck.
! A sufferer in certain English pro-
| vinces was taken to an ash tree. A
pin was stuck in the bark, then with
drawn. and a wart pierced with it till
| there was pain, and then the pin was
pushed into the tree. Or the wart
was crossed with a pin three times;
! the pin was stuck in the tree and the
wart left the hand for the tree. But
a charm was spoken In each case:
Ash tree, ashen tree,
Pray bury these warts for me.
| In other provinces the warts were
rubbed with the inside of a bean shell
while the victim recited:
| AS this bean shell rot away,
So my warts shall soon decay.
In Shropshire each wart was touch
ed with a gravel stone. The stones
\ were tied in a bag and thrown away
and this was spoken:
Warts, warts. go away,
In a month a week and a day.
Or beans were stolen, one for each
wart, tied up in paper, carried to
the crossing Of roads and dropped
The afflicted walked away without
looking behind him. But the charm
of charms was this: you caught moon
shine in a bright silver basin and
washed your hands with it. Sir Ken
cline Digby said this was an infallible
remedy often used; Sir Thomas
! Browne admitted the practice and did
not disapprove; Southey's Daniel
Dove was not benefited by the cold
moisture of the moon because he used
a brass basin, not silver. which is the
lunar metal.
| And now in Brookline a man simply
passes his hand over warts and they
disappear. Truly this is world OF
wonders. In a few years boys may
| have no warts at ALL Yet there have
| been men who were proud Of these
decorations, as Oliver Cromwell-Bos-
ton Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
LESSONS OF THE TIMES.

LESSONS Of THE TIMES.
1t is not easy to teach the American
people the value Of economy, but some
Of them are learning it, and it will be
worth ali the self-denial 1t costs If in
the flood of prosperity 1t is not again
forgotten-Nashvil1e American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
TIE CONSTITUTION

Old George the Third of merry fame
Possessed a great Big Stick,
j. Caesar had another one
With which he loved to lick:
=. Cromwell armed himself with one
To smite his feHow-man:
In fact each tyrant, good or bad,
Had one since earth began.
When this republics fathers met
To make a nation free
They took all big sticks in the world
That were or yet to be:
They ground the wood into a pulp.
A deed of mighty note,
And on the paper thus produced
The Constitution wrote
-McLandburg Wilson in N. Y. Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

HEIGHT AND PUBLIC SERVICE.
The president is right in declaring
indefensible the rule barring men I'M
der five feet four inches from the pos
tai service. That would have shut
out even as capable a man as the late
Stephen A. Douglas.-Boston Tran
script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28

A PLACE FOR BR WAN
Germany is casting Sleeps eyes at
bimetallism-a contamination whicn
even William Jennings Bryan hoped
for, IL at all, under his breath.-Chtcaso
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
CARRIE rs DISCOURAGED.

Carrie Nation is not politician.
She announces that she is discouraged
at the very moment that she might
be trying to assume credit for
marked progress in prohibition senti-
ment.-Washington Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-28
CARRIE NATION M1sPoKE

Carrie Nation says that she expects
to meet every brewer in the hereafter.
And we thought Carrie was working
all the time to secure an entrance to
the other place.-Parsons Sun.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
A GOLD FACTOR.

Now comes a brilliant scientist, q
man of repute, of recorded achieve
ment, and declares he can, and will,
manufacture gold of hness exceed
ing Government standards, at the rate
of $l00,000000 year, at cost OF 10
cents on the dollar He has discov-
cred the secret of transmutation and
proposes to market it at an enormous
profit and to give his Uncle Samuel
the first go at it.
No man OF today, who is abreast OF
the progress Of the hour, is at all sur
prised;' this thing has been expected
for thousands of years; and that it
comes now, in the common course OF
big and marvellous developments
along scientific lines, causes no ripple
of amazement but takes its fixed and
leading place in the commercial pro-
gram, along with air-brakes, electric
lighted channel depths, wireless teleg-
raphy and telephony, etc, etc; and
as long as the secret is guarded in
violably and the processes remain un-
patented as at present, il will be the
arch-triumph OF the day. Once the
bars are down however gold will
rank with copper and new standards
will rise with radium perhaps as the
crux.
Ten-cent gold has long been a
cherished dream of the editorial fra
ternity; we have yearned for it with
an earnestness paralleled only by the
hopelessness of the dream; and now
the blamed stuff comes hurting along
with a commercial tag on it and all
the prescriptive barriers known to
the law and the obnoxious cupidity OF
its discoverer and exploiters; but dis
appointment is our daily portion, and
philosophy our refuge; hence, while
passively regretting our exclusion
from the new field and its Easy |
street" program, we rejoice in the
marvel and wish it limitless success,
even to the undoing OF Wall street
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
RoESsLERIzE THE Work.

Ii the government OF this country is
anxious to have the Columbia jetties
completed within reasonable time and
at cost within the appropriation just
made in that behalf, as the people OF
the Columbia Valley are, Col. S. w,
Roessler will be retained at his post
in this district and given free hand
in the work The eternal shifting OF
responsibility for this splendid i'm.
provement has been the prime cause
for its useless dragging and long
delayed completion,
The scheme needed Roesslerizng,
and is getting il, TO the abounding good
OF the enterprise and the satisfaction
OF the people OF both States at inter-
est, especially those OF Oregon. The
man and his methods are wholly ac
ceptable here and there is no ques-
tion whatever OF the popular desire
to see the jetties finished. Ii is known,
too, that Colonel Roessler is particu
larly we'll disposed toward the dredger
system and will recommend the use Of
one or more powerful machines on
the bar and in the river; that he will
do all that an officer and engineer OF
his standing may do, toward the full
development and maintenance OF the
commerce OF the Columbia. There
fore, he is the right man in the right
place, and the Government at Wash |
ngton should be made to realize the |
urgency and efficacy OF his staying |
light here, with ample authority and
means to wind up one OF the most
notable, and sorely needed improve
nents in the country.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
GOOD NEWS.
Many Astoria Readers Have Heard it
and Prohted Thereby.

Good news travels FAST" and the
thousands of bad back sufferers in
Astoria are glad to learn that prompt
relief is within their reach. Many a
lame, weak and aching back is bad no
more, thanks to Doan's Kidney Pills
Our citizens are telling the good news
Of their experience with the Old
Quaker Remedy. Here is an example
worth reading:
Arthur Rookie, Az Duane street,
storia, Ore, says: "At the time | be-
gan using Doan's Kidney Pills was
suffering severely from pain in my
back and shoulders which descended
at times into my limbs. The pains
seemed to be as severe during the
night as in the day and many times
interfered with my rest. At one time
| was so lame that | was unable to
stoop over to lace my shoes without
suffering acutely. Ny kidneys were
SO irregular in action and the secre-
tions were in a terrible condition. At
last a friend recommended Doan's
Kidney Pills to me so highly that |
procured box at Chas. Rogers drug
store. They helped me from the
first and l continued using them until
I was entirely free from kidney com
plant. | am now entirely well and it
gives me pleasure to recommend
remedy of such great benefit as
Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name = Doan's =
and take no other.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
AN OPEN LETTER.
Editor OF the Morning Astorian.

Editor Of the Morning Astorian
Dear Sir;-Last Saturday, and the
week preceding, there appeared in
The Astoria Herald articles on the
closing of the pool room on Com
mercial street Messrs. Dugan and
Knudsen first took up sides with the
aforesaid pool room proprietors, but
later on, in the last issue Of the paper,
the Herald editor went back on the
first weeks article and, trying to
square themselves with the police
court commission and the force, they
attacked the place with vicious Ian
guage. Such an attack, it seems to
me, is entirely out of place. 1t is not
for the Herald's editor to Judge and
criticize this place. ! If Officer No. 3
had been taken into this place OF busi-
ness and presented with cigars and
tobacco and occasionally with drink
of whisky, this trouble would not have
come up. This, it seems, is done in all
other pool rooms in the city and now
that since the Commercial street pool
room has been closed, minors are now
playing in all the other pool rooms.
The proprietors of this Commercial
street room hereafter had better offer
the officers cigars or drinks every time
that they pass his place Of business.
IF the citizens of the city of AS
toria are going to make this holy
city, pave the streets with doughnuts;
and if they do not wish their boys
ruined by being driven out Of place
OF innocent pastinc and amusement
they should see that this place is
opened up, even if necessary, with
some restrictions; for as sure as the
pool room is closed to stay closed the
minors will start visiting the red
light districts, saloons and other
places not worth mentioning.
"This is my honest and candid opin-
ion on this subject.
"Yours sincerely,
"CHAS. SODERBERG,
"A Subscriber and Citizen"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-02
NhOI ShO|I We H0Ie FOI'DeSSeI1!

Try JELL-O, the dainty, appetiz-
ing economical dessert. Can be pre-
pared instantly-simply add boiling
water and serve when cool. Favored
just right; sweetened just right; per-
feet in every way. A l0c. package
makes enough dessert for a large
family. All grocers sell it. Don't ac-
cept substitutes. JELL-O complies
with all Pure Food Laws. Seven
favors:-Lemon, Orange, Raspberry.
Strawberry, Chocolate, Cherry, Peach