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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

Take the first rainy day to repair
the tools, oiling the harness, and other
matters that can be so well done in the
barn or workshop.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02
Merely Postponed.

The fact that the annual message to
Congress embodies no recommendation
either for such a modification of Gus
toms administration as would give a
10 per cent leeway for differentiation
without penalties or for a ''comprehen-
sive commercial treaty"-that is, a
treaty el,hodying tariff reductions on
competitive products of all kinds-does
not indicate a policy Of noh-action on
the part of the President. By the terms
of the German tariff trade agreement
the President is obliged to urge upon
Congress both of these recommends
TONS Failure to do so would violate
the compact. The matter is only post
poned temporarily. 1t will come up
later in the form of special messages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

The thin-rinded or Hampshire hog is
rapidly increasing in popularity. The
exhibit of this breed at several of the
State fairs attracted much attention.
The Hampshire hog is possibly the
most picturesque in appearance of all
hogs, as E,e is black with white strip
completely around his body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

If trees are received from distance
and are partly dry when opened, bury
them for a week, top and all, in finely
pulverized, moist soil, to restore them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

Not more than 5000 stars are visible
to the naked eye. a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

The farmer that makes any pretense
to dairy interests soon learns to know
the great value of soiling crops. When
the early summer drought dries up the
pasture there is nothing like having a
supplementary crop to draw needed
supply rations from for the mich COWS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

Keep milk in cold water. Don't use
wooden milk pals. Don't leave skim
milk standing in cans. Don't allow
milk cans to remain in the stable.
Strain milk carefully through the wire
and cloth strainers. Don't mix nights
and mornings milk before cooling
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02

The horse has a smaller stomach
than the cow, and has less power to
digest coarse food, hence it is worse
than wasteful to oblige them to live on
coarse food. 1t is injurious.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-02
As to the Wage Garner.

II, as the PfeSlQenC asserts, the
'.well-being of the wage-earner must
ever be a cardinal point of American
policy"-which nobody can deny-it
necessarily follows that the wage-earn-
er ought not to be kept in the dark as
to tariff reduction that will necessi-
tate wage reduction. Tariff reduction
after election will hurt the wage-earn-
er just as badly as before election. 1t
viii hurt industry, trade and business
just as badly Then why is after cleo
ton a wise timer 1t would seem
that Just before election would be a
wiser time for tariff tinkering, for then
the wage-earner could determine who
were his friends and who were not and
vote accordingly.
The people are ready to let the Dem
ocrats reform the tariff, says the Peer
less One We don't believe anything of
the sort The Democratic party is OPP
posed to protection. For years and
years its leaders have denounced pro-
lection as robbery. while this same
principle has more than once demon
strated its effectiveness in bringing
general prosperity to the country. The
people know this and they are not
ready to abandon so benefcent a sys-
tem.-Columbus (Ind.) Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
HIS HOUSE LOOTED.
Owner Seeks to Recover From His
Tenant.

New York, Sept. 29.-Mrs. Thomas
PIERCE, who rides with the Meadow
brook and Myopia hounds in the fall
season, is soon to figure in civil ac-
ton in the supreme court at Mineola,
brought by Patrick Jones, a wealthy
ranch owner of Texas. who spends his
summers at Hampstead.
Mr. Jones leased his house to Mrs.
PIERCE last fall, she occupying it for
the hunting season. Late in the au-
tumn she closed the house before the
expiration of her lease. Shortly after
Mrs. PIERCE left the house. burglars
entered it and robbed it of everything
that could be moved, including the
kitchen stove.
When Mr.. Jones returned this sum-
mer to his Hampstead place he found
that the only piece of furniture which
he could keep house with was a chair
with two legs left. All the windows
were smashed. but the doors were
locked. A trip to a furniture store
to refit the house cost Mr.. Jones near
ly $1,000.
Mr.. Jones began an action for $500
against Mrs. PIERCE, claiming that as
the burglary occurred during the
period of her lease she must bear the
loss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
ON EVERY SEA.
Flag of japanese Commercial Navy
VIII Soon BE Seen.

Victoria. B. c., Sept. 29.-The Togo
Kisen Kaisha is arranging to place a
line of steamers between Japanese
ports and Salina Cruz, to take adj
vantage of the connection with the
Atlantic and European markets by
way of the Tehuantepec railway and
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha is arrang-
ing to invade the Mediterranean with
a Japanese steamship line runnin g
between Port Said and Trieste or
Fiume in Austro- Hungary under the
Japanese flag.
Special representatives of the Togo
Kisen Kaisha were sent to Mexico and
reported favorably regarding the
project. President Diaz has been in
terviewed by Mr.. -Arakawa, Japanese
minister at City of Mexico, and has
expressed himself favorably to the
new service. The line to be operated
between Port Said and the Austrian
ports is intended as a feeder to the
European line of Nippon Yusen
Kaisha to link the service with the
trade ports of Austro-Hungary and
southern Europe, freight being trans
shipped at Port Said for Trieste. If
the venture proves successful it is
stated a regular service will ultimate
ly be established between Japanese
ports and Trieste or Fiume.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
STUDY OF MIND CURE.
Scientific Investigation of the Subject
to Be Undertaken.

New York, Sept. 29.-The first
scientific attempt to investigate and
treat the subject of mind cure has
been undertaken here by the Center
Publishing company, which will pub
lish a course of reading upon the sub
ject. The field heretofore has been oc-
cupied by enthusiasts. The object OF
the present effort will be to treat the
phenomena from a scientific point-to
set forth the underlying truth in
Christian Science, mental healing.
faith cure, new thought and the EN-
manuel movement. The investigation
will be conducted by DIR. Paul Dubois
of Berne: DR.. Lloyd Tuckey of Loh-
don, author of standard works en-
psyche therapeutics; DIR. Milne Bran
we'll. authority on hypnotism; James
J. Putnam, E. E. Southland and DR..
Richard c. Cabot of Harvard; Prof.
Jastrow of Wisconsin; Prof. Angel of
Chicago; Professors Woodwork and
Peterson of Columbia: Prof. Royce of
Harvard, and will be edited by w. B.
Parker, formerly of Harvard and Co
lumbia.
No faith will be attacked but an
effort will be made to show the ra-
tional and substantial basis for the
claims of the followers of the various
faith cure cults.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
TAKE 1T TO COURT.
Los Angeles Jobbers Failed to Get
Reply From Railroads.

Los Angeles, Sept. 29.-Unable to
secure an answer to their letters to
the general traffic departments of the
Southern Pacific. Santa Fe and Salt
Lake railways, complaining against
the charges of $3.50 per car assessed
by these roads for delivering cars to
private sidings, the associated jobbers
of Los Angeles have laid their cases
before the interstate commerce COM
mission at Washington. They protest
against the further pay of these as
sessments, which are said to amount
to $250,000 year in this city.
Replies to the allegations made by
the jobbers have been forwarded by
the three roads to the commission and
the law firm of Kustar & Loeb, attor-
neys for the jobbers, is awaiting noti-
fication of the date for the hearing.
It is understood that the commission
will meet in Los Angeles to decide this
question.
In no other city in the United States,
with the exception of San Francisco,
is this extra charge made by the rail-
roads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
TO WORK IN FOREIGN FIELD
DIR. j. Wilbur Chapman and Singing
Partner to Australia

New York, Sept. 29.-Plans for a
revival in foreign lands will be out
lined at a special meeting of the
committee on evangelistic work of the
Presbyterian church. which will be
held tomorrow. The revival is to be
conducted by the Rev. DR.. J. Wilbur
Chapman, evangelist, and Charles NJ.
Alexander. choir leader, who travels
with him.
DIR. Chapman and Mr.. Alexander
will depart for Australia April IA next
and will conduct mission extending
through five months in the larger
cities of that country and New
Zealand The evangelistic workers
will return home by way of the
Orient and will conduct a series of
conferences with missionaries and ma
tive Christian workers in five large
Chinese cities. Among these will be
Canton. Pekin and Shanghai.
Thence the party will cross to
Japan. where in Toxic and. Yokohama
they will cary on a similar work.
Their next conferences will be held in
Corea and Manila.
DR.. Chapman expects to be out of
this country for about eight months
and he plans to reach the United
States by Christmas. 1909.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
COLOR LINE IN CHICAGO.
1t Is Causing Serious Troule i'll the
Elementary Schools.

Chicago, Sept. 29.-Reports from
two more elementary school buildings
increased the perplexity of the Chicago
school officials in dealing with the
"color line" yesterday.
In the neighborhood of the Moseley
school it was learned a movement is
on foot among the parents of white
pupils to cause a shifting of school
boundaries so that most Of the white
children will be sent to the John B.
Drake school, at Calumet avenue and
Twenty-sixth street.
At the Copernicus school, a new
building at West Sixtieth and Throop
streets, the feeling between the whites
and the negroes is intense, according
to Principal Cora Caverno, and clashes
between the two have been frequent
The Moseley school is at Michigan
avenue and Twenty-fourth street, near
the heart of a densely populated negro
neighborhood. OF the total enroll
ment. it is said, more than SO per cent
are negroes.
The Copernicus school. which was
opened recently has a negro enroll
ment of about 80 per cent.
The protests aroused last week by
the transfer of 159 children from ele-
mentary rooms in the Lake high
school to the Hancock school, where
about 10 per cent of the pupils are
negroes, caused the issuance of orders
for the return of the children to their
rooms in the Lake building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
TROLLEY CAMPAIGN.
sherman VIII Tour Illinois on Electric
Cars.

Chicago, Sept. ga somewhat novel
campaign speech making tour by troll
ley through many Illinois towns was
begun today by James S. Sherman, Re
publican vice presidential nominee, who
left here for Watseka, ILL.,, where he
delivered an address.
With Mr.. Sherman's party was Con-
gresham Nicholas Longworth, who
will also make speeches at the various
stops. Mr.. Longworth Joined the party
in Chicago and expects to remain Win
Mr.. Sherman as long as he stays IN
Illinois. From WatSeka the party went
to Danville, Speaker Joseph G.. Can
mons home for an evening meeting:
1t was said in political circles that
Mr.. Sherman'S trip to Speaker Can
mons district was being made for the
express purpose of aiding the speaker s
reelection. After the DanVille meet
ing, Congressman William B. Mckinley
will place at the disposal of Mr.. Sher-
man, a private car, which Will carry
the party over various trolley lines con-
Meeting Champaign, Monticello and 9TH
err towns. From the rear platform of
the trolley car, Mr.. Sherman will make
short speeches at cross roads and IN
rural communities in an appeal for the
farmer vote.
Following the Illinois and Indiana
itinerary, it is now definitely arranged
that the candidate will speak in To-
ledo, and Bryan, Ohio. october 6, in
Piqua and Columbus. October z, and in
Mansfield, and Akron, October g.
Mr.. Sherman will return to his home
in Utica, N. Y, October 10.
1t was learned today that the Re
publican national campaign managers
are anxious to have Mr.. Sherman make
second trip in the west and 1t Is
practically settled that he will appear
in ST. Louis, and make number OF
addresses in Missouri. Following that
he will speak in a number of towns in
Maryland and Delaware, carrying the
campaign into the east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
GAS BILL WENT ON.
Company Claims for 4 Months After
House Burned.

New York, Sept. 29.-According to
the evidence brought out in suit in
the ninth municipal court, the New
Amsterdam Gas company holds that
it can collect for gas alleged to have
been consumed in a house more than
four months after it is a pile of
blackened ruins BY some error no
representative of the corporation was
present to instruct the court how it
could be done, but it was admitted by
one of the officials that such mistakes
will some time happen.
At the beginning of last year Jacob
and Herman Baum had a music hall
in Broome street. 1t was totally de-
stroyed by fire in the early hours of
February %, and by o'clock in the
morning the blaze was out. Conse-
Quently the partners were surprised
when they received some months later
a notification from the New Amster-
dam company that they owed it
$71.30 for the consumption of 1890
cubic feet of gas between February
20. 1907 and July 8, of the same
year.
Jacob Baum testified that the gas
meter was destroyed with the build
ing, and judgment was ordered for
the defendant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
BOY TORTURED
BY AWFUL HUMOR
Almost Covered with Eczema-No
Nights Rest for Nearly a Year
Feared Lifelong Disagreement
All Treatments Failed and Limit
Of Endurance Seemed Near.
PERFECT RECOVERY
is DUE TO CUTICURA

with the exception Of his hands and
feet, my son Clyde (thirteen years ODD
was almost completely covered with
ec=ana. Physicians treated him for
nearly year without helping him any.
While they were very kind and did all in
their power, yet nothing seemed to re-
Esve hiCl. And I had tried many rem
sd'es sent to me by kind friends but they
all failed. His head. face. and neck were
covered with large scahs which he would
rub lut:l they fell of. Then blood and
tnsttar would run out and that would be
worse. Many @ time he looked as II
his oars would drop on Friends com
tag To see him said that II he got well he
would be disfgured for life.
When it seemed as II he could pos
sibly stand it no longer, I decided to
eEy Cuticura- bought cake OF Cuti-
Cglra Soap, box Of Cuticura Ointment,
1,lG a bottle Of Cuticura Resolvent-
used them in the evening and that was
slept. This may sound exaggerated
20 you. but in the morning there was
great change for the better. In about
ak weeks you could not have told that
he had ever mad anything wrong with him.
ss a. him tT I day n TSr s55 mensns
Rnd not a scar on his body. This story
may seem overdrawn, but neither words
nor pen can describe Clyde's suffering
and how he looked. Our leading ply
cura Remedies for eczema. Mrs. Algy
<cockhurn, Shiloh, o., June IL. 1907"
Frequent shampoos with Cuticura
Soap and weekly dressings with Cuti-
cura stop falling hair. remove crusts,
scales. and dandr1ff, destroy hair para
E:taz, soothe irritated, itching surfaces,
stimulate tho hair follicles, supply the
-oots with nourishnent, loosen the scalp
Fkiz. and make the hair grow upon
swS-t. wholesome, healthy scalp, when
al osaer remedies fail.
Cohleists External and InecrnGs Treatren. for
ET-rY HurDor of TniAnts Children. and Adults
eanss:s c; CtIcur% soap t25co 70 Cleanse The Skin
Cu:, Reecivent (51c toI IN the torn Of CHOCOLATE
(oetee Pila 2Sc per val OF 60) Purity the Blood
Fold tsFerghout The world. Potter Drug & Chem.
S AZ FTee ss0z soof on skin Dis.as.s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
CHARGED WITH LARCENY.
Three Young Men Must Face Trial at
Goodland in November.

Goodland, Kan. Sept. 29.-Three
young men, all being about 20 years of
age, have been bound over to the No
vember term of the district court
charged with the crime of larceny COM
rnitted on September 16, 1908, when
George Wheatly, of this city. and VIM.
Haley and Claud Walker of Loveland,
Col, took a valise and contents from
the Rock Island passenger train No.
6. They were arrested a few days af-
terward by Detective Bruce H. STEERS,
of said company, at Lirnon, Col, and
brought here for trial They were all
bound over to district court and placed
under $500 bonds. The valise was the
property of a passenger named G. r,
Honk of Plymouth, Neb. The valise
and contents were recovered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
A MASON 70 YEARS.
Probably Oldest Member of Any
Secret Society in the World.

Bellingham, Wash, Sept. 29.-Possi-
bly, the Oldest member of any secret
order in the United States is dead at
Lynden. He was Rev. Alexander Lee
claire, 96 years of age. who had been
for 75 years a member in good standing
of the Masonic fraternity. For forty
years he was a frontier preacher. leaV-
ing the Catholic church at the age OF
81 to join the Methodists. He learned
and forgot entirely during his life time
two languages. Gaelic and French
speaking only English at his death
He was born in Canada of scotch
and French parentage and learned the
cobbler trade. At the age of 40 he gave
up the ministry.
Masons from all over Whatcom coun-
ty will attend Mr.. Leclaire's funeral.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
HEARS EVIDENCE IN TEXAS CASE
Railroad Commissioner Kanavel At
tends Hearing in St. Louis.

George w. Kanavel. chairman of
the Kansas railway commission, is in
st. Louis today attending a session of
the Interstate Commerce commission
at which the Texas railway commits
sion is trying to prevent the proposed
Increase in commodity freight rates to
that state from Chicago, st. Louis and
Kansas City. The railways are propos-
ing to put in the new rates because
they claim that existing rates are too
low. The people think the new rates
are being proposed to punish the state
for it's anti-railway legislation.
Indirectly the proposed new rates
may effect Kansas and Oklahoma. and
the Kansas and Oklahoma railway
commission are both represented at
the hearing.
From st. Louis. Mr.. Kanavel will go
to Washington, d. c., to attend the
annual convention of the railway com
missioners association OF the United
States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
BIG SUMS PAID OUT.
Insurance Companies Make Five and
a Half Millions Profit in Kansas.

Insurance companies of various
kinds, exclusive of fraternals, received
in Kansas last year about 51s million
dollars more in premiums than their
losses amounted to, according to the
annual report of Charles Barnes, su-
perintendent Of insurance.
Life insurance companies cleaned up
50, 1854, 916. Fire insurance companies
took in an excess of $2,126,955, and
casualty companies received $40l,Sl3
more than they paid out. The per cent
of profit of the casualty companies Is
much larger than that of life or nre
companies.
For the life insurance companies, the
total incomeAin Kansas for the year
was $4,61S,3 02, while they paid losses
aggregating only 81, $50. They still
owe $401.S6 on policies, but these are
in the course of adjustment
During the year the various life COM
panies wrote 50,973 policies in Kansas
with total insurance of $33,S93,473. The
total amount of life insurance in force
in the state aggregates $147,245,299
American fire insurance companies
last year wrote $2S3,S67,O21 in fire IN
surance and received premiums in the
amount of $3,269,42 They had losses
aggregating 81, 434,057.
Fire insurance companies of foreign
countries wrote in Kansas $43,O19. LIZ
in fire insurance and received therefor
premiums amounting to $5O1,lS3. Tney
paid losses to the amount of $2l5,59l.
The total premiums paid to casualty
companies of all kinds aggregated
$5S7 ,6S2, while the losses sustained by
those companies only aggregated $lS6, :
369
There are now. all told. 231,941 risks
in force in fraternaI societies in the
state with a total insurance of $685.
940,7 06. The total losses paid during
the year aggregated $2,495,016. Assess
ments were levied to the amount OF
s. 3337 1854
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
Rec
PI L {.
CURE
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What 1t Has Done for Others, 1t Car
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What 1t Has Done for Others, 1t Can
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We have testimonials by the hun
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If you could read these unsolicited
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
Mango Ouarantine lifted.

Some time ago John S. Baker. KAN
sas live stock sanitary commissioner,
recommended to the federal depart
ment of agriculture that the mango
quarantine be lifted against the coun-
ties of Decatur, Hodgman, Ness, Paw
nee, Ellis, Rush and Edwards in west
ern Kansas. On Monday Baker re-
ceived notice that his recommends
ton had been accepted and that those
seven counties would be taken from
quarantine on October 49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
MErHoDIsrs DENoUNCE CANNON
Los Angeles Conference Calls on
Country to Defeat Him.

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 29.-At the
closing session of the Southern Cali
fornia Methodist conference here last
night resolutions were adopted severely
censuring Speaker Joseph Cannon of the
house of representatives, and calling
upon the Christian citizens of his dis
trict and the whole United States to
see that he is not again elected to con-
gress or that if elected to see that re
is not again made speaker of the house.
Speaker Cannon was denounced by
bishops and ministers in speeches and
it was stated that this is in accord
ance with a wide spread movement
against the speaker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
charged with setting Fires.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 29.-A deputy
marshal has left for southern Oregon
with a warrant issued by the federal
r. Webb, a hunter, who has ranch
near Deering. charging him with set
ting a fire which devastated the neigh
borhood of 10000 acres of timber land
in northern California during the past
summer. According to the allegation.
Webb made a practice of setting fires
in the timbered area of the govern
men reserves for the alleged purpose
of furnishing grazing land for deer