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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
BROOKLYN Releases Players.

New York, Feb. 27.-President
PuIham of the National league has
announced the following releases by
the Brooklyn Baseball club, which
have been approved and promulgat-
ed: H. T. Briggs and Pitcher Hess to
Nashville, in the Southern league;
Catcher J. Hurley to Rochester, in
the Eastern league; Inf1elder Zim-
norman to Harrisburg, in the Tri-
state league, and Pitcher Farley to
Waterbury, in the Connecticut league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
Los Angeles. California.

Every day at l1:50 noon q RuIlr,.-
tourist sleeping car leaves Topeka ~,
Los Angeles. Cal. without change We
the Union Pacific r. r. This caa
stays in Salt Lake City throurh era
daylight hours of one day. eiyine ths
tourist an opportunity to visit ths
many points Of interest in the civ h,s
the great inland sea- -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
Destruc4ton OF Liquor at Gfrard.

Pittsburg. Kan, Feb. 27.-Wednesday
afternoon. at Girard, Sheriff Walsh
publicly destroyed 25 half-barrels OF
beer, one eight-gallon keg Of beer. sixey
gallons Of whisky in barrels, sixty quart
bottles, a number OF half-pints and
pints OF whisky, forty cases OF beer,
which had been taken under search and
seizure warrants and taken from the
various Joints in the county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
Basketball Team Quits Normal.

Enporia, Kan, Feb. 27.-The Sec
ond Normal basketball team, it Is
said, affronted by the fact that the
Normal manager of athletics would
not schedule out of town games for
it and give it the recognition accord
ed to the first team, has quit Normal
athletics and enlisted in company L,
Kansas National guards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
A New Swimming RECORD.

New York, Feb. 27.-Charles NJ. Dam
iels of the New York Athletic club broke
the worlds record last night for the so
yard swim, covering the distance with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
ADJUSTMENTS
.sThe Man of the HON.. y

There's been a good sale of seats for
George Broadhurst's great drama, 1.-THE
Man Of the Hour" which will be seen
at the Grand tonight with the entire
company that made such a great hit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
Death Of Major 70. Brown.

Emporia, Kan, Feb. N.-Ma5or Ephriam
Brown, one of the pioneers OF Lyon coun-
ty, died suddenly Tuesday night He was
one OF Lyon county's wealthiest farmers.
He came here Immediately after the waf,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
MISSOURI PACIFIC REFUNDS.
Gives EIDorado Twenty Acres Of Land
snd So, 900 for Breaking Faith.

and S., 600 Tor BreAkfnR T ain.
Ell Dorado, Kan. Feb. H-Twenty
vears ago mi Dorado city gave the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad $4,000 in bonds
and IS acres Of land to build and main
tain a roundhouse and machine shops
here. About two years ago the road
moved their shops to Wichita and HI
Dorado city brought suit to recover the
money and land. A compromise mas
been agreed upon, the city receiving
1000 and 10 acres Of land
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
seThe District Leader. .

1.-The District Leader" Is to play re-
turn date at the Grand Sunday night
1.-THE District Leader" Is one Of the best
equipped musical productions that has
an array Of beautiful women, dazzling
electrical effects and scenic sp1endor
has been seen with but few other
companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27

A good safe Investment. R.n.s.
municipal bonds, not subject to tsIes
tion- For sale by the Prudential Trust
company. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
Classmates"

The third act of Classmates" In
which Robert Edeson will be presented
by Henry B. Harris at the Grand on
wednesday, March 4, represents a jun
gle on the Amazon river in South
America and is one Of the finest mas
terpieces Of stagecraft ever produced
by the combined effort of the stage
carpenter, scene painter and stage
manager. Every detail is exact from
the tangled underbrush which covers
the stage to the gnarled and vine COW
cred trees which rear their foliage high
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27

IN which he served from beginning to end.
He was member of the Hath Ohio, and
was several times promoted for gallantry,
being discharged as a major OF the regf-
ment in which he enlisted as q private.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27

Block signals and overhead crossings
are important travel safeguards. Gar
land car ventilators, too.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
DRiFTW00D.
nH rhiL h- AstnsrK0N..

The town Is full of pretty Alabama school-marms. and not an old maid among 'em.
 It Is said that those Birmingham fell that was well-nigh insatiabIe.
 When we observe some specimens of 'self-made" men, we can't refrain from wondering if 1t wouldn't have been better had they used pattern.
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 The Washington Herald says there seems to be nothing in the old leap year superstition. G'wan-you're jesl- ous of our ieap-year proposal. A New York bigamist has been or- dered to support both families. Worst punishment that could be meted out to him. and he deserves it.
 Mrs. Howard Gould, "the human tank" makes The Aikili Eye and Ths Hardeman Free Press men look like a cup of drinking water for humminE- bird.
 Women who live in flats have to so outside to put on these merry widow hats.
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 A Western girl has married a man named Bugg. If hell build her q nico house she'll go Bugg-house over him. mebbe.
 Eighteen thousand phonograph rec. ords were mashed in a Massachusetts railroad wreck recently. Sometimes . benefit to humanity.
 Did you ever have a music box7" .Yes; when l was studying the piano, the teacher often gave me one on the so--that accounts for the reason you learned to play by ear?" that clans are not animals. Now you can go ahead and take your summer vacation.
 That idol of the ladies clubs. Ebert Hubbard. d."-Nashville Tennessean. In other words. you'd have him sort of ert-Mother-Hubbard.
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 When the President ordered the rail- roads to furnish equal accommodations teously complied by taking away the soap and towels from the whites
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  here they have good time. Ifyou are thinking of giving pet to an old maid, remember man would be the most acceptable thing you could present.
 Never marry a woman for her pretty complexion alone when the drug are overstocksd with 'em.
 If the man can hold his own and riage isn't failure.
 Wine improves with age, but a joke doesn't unless wine is passed around so far reaching is the influence of the former.
 The trouble with the average serv- ant is those taking ways
 The reason there are not more in. creases in salaries Is because the aver- age employe refuses to make a noise like the busy little bee
 A German scientist asserts that Ma ture furnishes man q new set of brains every sixty days. In some cases we have observed, however. Nature seems fc.
 Some men think a lot more of the standing of the different baseball clubs than they do their own financial status. You can change your fiauneIs if you haven't changed your mind.
 A Chicago paper claims that the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
CANDLE POWER.

Now that electric lights have come into such general use we hear and read great deal about candle power. We say of an electric light globe that 1t has so many candic-power. just as we say of a steam-engine that it has so many horsepower. And yet we doubt if there can be found many per- sons, except those who make a study of electricity, who have any definite idea of what the term means. To those who are not posted on the subject the following comments from The New York Globe will be of interest:
 Pretty much every one thinks he knows what a candle power is-the light given by a single candle. of course. As a matter of fact, candles houses. oil lamps or firefiies, and a candle-power is not one thing, but half dozen, according 10 the country where the phrase IS used. In Great Britain and the United States the standard light unit Is the amount giv- en by "spermaceti candle burning up at the rate of 120 grains An hour, with a flame forty-five millimetres high" ctc: III ahSe lHe stdnudru cdhoie IS made of stearine, and Germany's can- dle was, until a few years ago, par- affine. Now the latter country uses the so-called Hefner unit of light, the amount given by a certain form of lamp burning acetate oi amyl. An other lamp standard, called the carcel, was used in France. In this purified rape seed oil is burned. Because of this unsatisfactory international chaos. 1t Is now proposed that our national bureau of standards at Washington take steps to establish a standard, in- ternational candle, which would be acceptable to at least nine countries. The joint committee of gas and cleo standardization declares that the change could be made with very little disturb ance of most of the national standards now in existence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
TAFT AND BRYAN.
The noabts That Are Expressed As T,
 Thefr Availability.

The noabts That Are Expressed As Te
 Thefr Avafiibiiity.
 WinishiTTstcn Tst special: ... Republican and Democratic nominees. respectively. the curious feature of a large section of the followers of each candidate being in extreme doubt as will be presented.
 The chief ground of the opposition Of many Democrats to the nomination of Mir. Bryan has been. all along openly with two defeats in his record will be unabe to achieve victory. There are thousands, probably hundreds of thous- ands. . of Democrats who would hail Bryan to the Presidency, on whom depend his being the nominee, though believing that some other man would be more likely to lead the party to vic- tory.
 If the sentiment in Washington be in any way similar in strength to that of the rest of the country, 1t Is probably MT. Taft cannot be elected. as there are Democrats who believe the nomina- tion of MT. Bryan would mean, national defeat Secretary Tafts record makes the Federal beuch he delivered some pretty scathing decisions in denuncia- tion of woriSingmen's unionR.
 He approved every step the President
 
 ion dishonorably dismissed from the service for shooting up" of Browns vile. The opposition of labor unions and especially the opposition 0f the large body of negro voters in certain States of the North, quite naturally cause sincere apprehension on the part of the Republican leaders.
 It is just as easy to find Repub. 1ican in Washington who says Secre- tary Taft cannot be elected. if nomin- ated, as 1t is to find Democrat who made the nominee of the Denver. con. vention.
 There have been no recent remark able developments on the Democratic side in connection with the campaign for the Presidential nomination. Dur ing the past week South Dakota SC. lected a delegation to the Denvert ,on- ventton instructed for Mir. Bryan. This is about all of a positive character which has come out for some time. The fact that the Democrats of Minnesota that State for Johnson, as against Mr. Bryan. is regarded by the Bryan pee. pie as very significant. It iP allegod to indicate the weakness of Goverfios Johnson as a candidate, that he has te make a fight for the delegation from his own State. One of theF chief apgu. ments advanced for the nominAtion ce Governor Johnson Is his great strength in the West and Northwest. sAlready the Bryan people haev hedgea in thc Johnson forces pretty effecfual fly. Nartb Dakota, South Dakota, Iowasiand Vie consin have chosen Bryan delegations to the Denver convention. Governor Johnson did not get a delegate in any of these States. -ls :.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
MORLEY NEEDS THE SALARY.

~Niu Sso To House of Lords Te Remain
 in the Cabinet.
 London Cable to New York World.
 John Morley's decision to finish his career with his identity disguised un- der some new and tawdry title, as a member of that unrepresentative, anti democratic assembly, the House of Lords, which he declared ten years ago should be either "Inended or ended" ts a grevious disilusionmentt to his friends Yet. as your correspondent knows. It is part of an act of self-sacrirce which rebounds to Morleys' honor and inteS- rIty. The story Is one which has eis- ments of tragedy in 1t.
 Morley had a step son named Ay. for whom he paid a large sum. which he could ill-afford. to secure for him partnership in a great publishing house In Edinburgh Ayling became a spsG; , heavily and signed Morleyis name to bills to the extent of nearly $10O0O0 He was arrested. pleaded guilty and was sentenced few months ago al Edinburgh to seven years penal serV- ttude.
 With no legal or even moral obliga- ton upon him to do so, MT. Morley has frauduientIy obtained by his sIspson In order to do this, he not only hal paid out all his savings, but has bound himself to pay annually certain sum for a certain number of years.
 Few people know this story of self sacrifice. Were 1t not for the obliga- tons he has voluntarily assumed to meet the liabilities of his stapson. MT Morley would now willingly retire from Parliament and office. It is only be- cause he believes his health can not stand the strain of the work of the able him to pay this debt. that he takes the course highly repugnant to him of going into the House. of Lords in order that he may remain in the Cabinet and draw Ministers salary of $25.O00 a year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
This h My 5Sth Birthday
williaI,a R. Day.

Justice William R. Day, of the Su- preme Court of the United states: was born in Ravenna, O., April IT. 1S49, the son of Judge Luther Day, of the Su- preme Court of Ohio. Justice Day, re- ceived his education at the University of Michigan, from which Institution he was graduated in 1870. Two years began the practice of ,avr, Jaw at ,.sS Canton; S he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pless. In 1889 President Hqr- United States district judge. which po- ssitiOn he declined. President MeKln; friend. appointed him assisrant Secre- tary Of state in ..rI issi, and 2 M gssr 'atss ter resigned his place in the Cabinet to accept the chairmsnship of the ts.H com. of peace with Spain at the close of the war in 1898: From 1929 ts 1908 United States circuit bench. In 1903 President Roosevelt appoiHtsd him a Justice of the Supreme Court of the IJnitAd States. 'sa-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
THE BOSSES AND THE BOssED.

The Pittsburg, (Pa.) Sun has its own idea about men who suffer themselves l to be figuratively decked with collars when they so forth as lawmakers or as delegates to a convention. It says: If the theory of the instructed dele gates and of the lawmaker absolutely pledged to a certain program laid down in advance Is to obtain in this coun- try, there is. as Mayor Gutnrie says, at all. A certified copy of delegate list in the care of a special messenger is all that is needed for convention, home and let a dictator like Cannon count their votes on all questions be- fore the people. according as their dis tricts have ordered. compared. With E principle, good general intelligence and known political views, and trusting them with full responsibility 10 act as circumstances direct !he nsIructea ,ieiIe ei plan Is inhexlple anu uhPA oiiiSihs enough.
 The propriety or good policy of in- structing delegates to a national po- litical convention. except in the case of those from a State having can didate. is doubted and opposed by many thoughtful people. While there are some-whose motives we do not ouestion-who believe in having the delegates bound hand and foot and bound down to vote first, last and all the time" for a certain candidate, oth- CTS who are equally intelligent, patri- otic and loyal hold a different opinion. Their theory is to send as delegates we'll informed and reliable men and trust to their intelligence. honesty and loyalty to principle to do what is best for the party and the country. Be- tween these two opposing views there isN always more or less contention. Each side has It's sturdy advocates and we may assume that they are honest in their views. But while there may be differences of opinion as to the pro- priety of binding delegates there should be none in the case of members of Legislature or of Congress. If the people are not willing to trust their lawmakers to do their duty honestly and fearlessly they should not send them, and they should not send men who have not the courage to do what they believe is their duty. The spec tacle of a Congress submitting to be bossed and entirely dominated by the Speaker is not one of which Ameri- cans should be proud. So much has been said and written of the manner in which MT. Cannon absolutely holds | the House under his thumb that 1t has almost ceased to excite wonder. The Democrats, being in practically hopeless minority can accomplish lit tie except by flibustering tactics and | delays, but not so with the Republi- cans. They have in the House sucn a clear and decided majority that they could put through almost any measure or resolution they desire if they were not held down by the Speaker whom they seem afraid to antagonize.
 i It is a sorry spectacle and we are not able to understand why Congress- men sh hould suffer themselves bulldozed in any such way. There are strong men on the Republican side; enough to control legislation, but either they l themselves are under the speak
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
PHYSICIANS NOTE VIEWS OF
 COOPER ON HUMAN STOMACH

A recent article in The .ew Orleans Item gives an account of the effect upon the medical profession of that city with regard to L. T. Cooper's the ory that the human stomach Is re- sponsible for most i'll health. The ar- ticle is as follows:
 The astonishing sale of Cooper's preparation in this city has now reach ed such immense figures that the medi- cal fraternity have been forced into open discussion of the mans theories and medicines,
 'The physicians seem to be divided with regard to the young mans suc- cess in New Orleans-some being will ing to credit him for what he has ac- complished, while others assert that the interest he has aroused Is but a passing fad that will die out as quickly as 1t has sprung up.
 "In statement recently obtained from a well-known physician of this city, the position of those in favor of Cooper is well voiced. The doctor said: T am not believer in proprietary medicines, but must admit that some of the facts recently brought to nay
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

attention concerning this Cooper medi- cine have gone far toward removing the prejudice I had formed against them when I first heard of Coopers new ideas and medicines.
 Numbers of my patients whom have treated for chronic liver, kidney and stomach troubles have met me and stated that Cooper's medicine has ac- complished wonderful results for them. notice particularly in cases of stomach trouble that the man has relieved several cases that were of years standing and proved very ob- stinate to treatment.
 "'I do not wish to stand in the way of something that may be for the pub lie good. simply through professional prejudice. and am inclined to give Cooper and lis preparations credit as deserving to some extent the popular demonstration that has been accorded them in this city"
 We sell the Cooper medicines. They are proving remarkably successful throughout the entire United States.- E. c. Fowler
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17
FRIDAY, APRIL IT, 1908.

We are told in the Good Book that sthe stars in their courses fought against Sisera," and 1t looks very much like the stars or something else is fighting against Atlanta. Now that they have nominally cut out all drinks but water there are vigorous com plaints about the lack of that fluid. It is said by the city papers that wa ter cannot be had in some parts of the city to sprinkle the streets, or water the gardens and flower yards. That's what comes of trying to make the people drink nothing but, water: they are exhausting the supply.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-17

skunk is q distant relative of the grey wolf. For the comfort of the grey wolf let us hope 1t is extremely dist Men may. come ana men may 70. but ancient jokes so on the vaudeville straw ballots show which way tn. Why doesn't somebody say .omethinr about the Merry Widower? Don't lose him in the shuttle. He's usually a mer- ry old dog. a wild bucking hobby till 1t will stand @ without hitching. ciety do not necessarily feed on milk. Every woman likes working model. husband.
 People always look pleasant in a photograph if they don't ask the price beforehand. A London scientist says the world will go dry in fifty million years. And to think the present prohibition agita- tors won't be here to see it-terrible' A Baltimore man fired a bullet into his leg to get rid of the rheumatism. Gle dtd.)
 England uses 100000. 900 eggs ev- cry year, but remember there are some pretty bad actors over there. In certain Carolina County the cleo tion is just one week or and no can didates in sight. Is it possible that there Is on earth locality where po- littcal inharmonfousness is unknown7
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 Non-Erasable. You may crush, you may shatter The vase If you will But the price that 1t cost you Remains in the bill.
 Another One. Maud Muller on
 Summers day
 When the judge proposed sne just said
 "Hay?"
 The DifReremce. Distance" lends entertainment
 To the view. So you call 1t "close" when folks
 Won't lend to you.