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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
EsKRIDGE CLAIMS THE HoNoRs
claims That Town Is Entitled to High
School Football Championship.

Eskridge is laying claims to consid-
Grafton in the high school football
championship. By their defeat of the
Emporia team with the score of Is to
IL they have entered into the highest
class of high school teams. The little
town has erected a new $4,000 high
school building and the enrolment
stands at 225 pupils. 1t is possible they
might maintain a first class team
Special praise is claimed for Captain
Arthur Bennett who is said to be play
ing quarter in college style.
The attention of Eskrfdge is hereby
invited to the Lawrence high school
team. Until the scalp of that aggrega-
ton of stars is dangling at the Esk-
ridge belt it would be well to be care
full about making claims.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
FOR CROSS COUNTRY FLY
Arkansas Men Will Said From New
York in Dirigible Balloon.

New York, Nov. 11.-Joel T. Rice
and John A. Riggs of Hot Springs,
Ark. have completed the construction
of the largest dirigible balloon in this
country and they announce that in a
few weeks they will be sailing over
New York. The airship which is call
ed the American Eagle has been I'M
{ er construction for several months at
the old Morris Park race track and
today the huge gas bag is being in
fiated.
After preliminary flights around the
city, the aeronauts expect to start on
a flight to Arkansas. going by easy
stages. Mr.. Rice said he expected to
make cross country runs of from IS
to 100 miles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
WINES TO GO HIGHER.
Tariff Adds Fifty Cents Bottle to
Champagne.

Chicago, Nov. 11.-Champagne spark
ling burgundy and other wines are 60
ing up
This narrowing information has per-
colated through green rooms and cafes.
To those who drink it brought misgiv-
ings. 1t is all on account of the tariff,
say the restauranteurs.
The increase will be 121z per cent and
it will apply on champagne and other
imported wines.
Champagne that sold for "a a bottle
is to be listed at 81. and fancy wines
will be priced accordingly. The tariff
change back of this is an increase OF
80 cents a quart on champagne and a
like amount on other high grade wines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
GIRL PUPILS ROBBED.
Trinkets Valued at $1,000 Taken
From the Dormitory.

Chicago. Nov. 11.-Girl students
at Northwestern university are be-
wailing the loss of watches. bracelets,
rings, necklaces and other trinkets
dear to the feminine heart
Robbers last night entered Willard
hall, the girls dormitory at the uni
versity, and ransacked about 20 rooms
which were left unlocked when the
girls went to their dinners The rob-
berS gained entrance to the second
floor of the building by climbing a
fire escape.
According to the estimates given
the police the robbers secured nearly
$1,000 in money and jewelry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
RICHEST CHILD IN THE STATE.
Four With an Income of
100000 Yearly Is Dead.

Muskogee. Okla, Nov. 11.-Albert
con Leiber, years cid, the richest
eEild in the state of Oklahoma, the son
OF John G. Leiber, is dead of a throat
ailment. The boy was of Indian ex-
-raction. His land allotment was in
the famous Glenn oil pool. An oil
tease On this quarter section of land
Melted the lad a bonus of $4,000. His
royalties arising from oil from the
wells amounted to nearly $4,000 a
month. In addition to this he still
owned the land. The property las it
stands is probably worth a quarter
million
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
DIES FROM MERCURY.
Child Swallows Contents of
Physicians Thermometer.

Roswell, N. M. Nov. 11-As a re-
suit of swallowing mercury e in a
thermometer which she crushed be-
tween her teeth as her father was
taking her temperature, Cecil, the
five-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl P. Atwa. is dead.
Within fifteen minutes after swal-
lowing the contents of the Their
mometer the child was unconscious,
and when the doctor arrived she was
almost without pulse.
Although she was revived, she only
lived a short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
HARTMAN SEAT SOLD.
Place of Wizard of Finance on Ex-
change Bought $4,000.

New York, Nov. 1.-The stock ex-
change seat of E. H. Hartman. which
has been sold for about $4,000, was
purchased by him 40 years ago for
$4,000 and, according to his asso-
ciates, was the basis of the vast for
tune which he left.
Mr. Hartman told a friend, it is
said, that he purchased the seat with
money which came to him with his
marriage and that from that moment
his fortunes began to increase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
INFANT MORTALITY.
And Its Prevention to Be Considered
by Scientists.

New Haven. Conn. Nov. 11.-Prornin-
ent physicians and laymen gathered
here today from all parts of the coun-
try for the sessions of the conference
beginning this afternoon on the preven-
ton of infant mortality under the aus
Fices Of the American Academy of
Medicine. The meetings will continue
through Friday and the medical, insti-
tutionaL philanthropic and educational
viewpoints of the topic will be given.
DIR. J.. Mason Knox, Jr., of Johns Hop
kins university, presided
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
BOUND TO SMOKE.
Oak Park Patrons Threaten to Make
Company Raise Its Tracks.

Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE war between
smokers and officials of the Chicago s.
oak Park elevated railroad who have
barred smoking cars from their trains
went merrily on today
A militant suburban objector TO the
no smoke program was arraigned IN
court, charged with disorderly conduct,
ne having boarded a Converted smok-
er" with a huge revolver in holster
strapped to his waist. The case was
continued to November 16. Meanwhile
the smokers discussed the possibility Of
compelling the elevated company to
raise its tracks through Oak Park.
where they are on the surface or REIN
state the banished smoking cars.
Get our estimate Il that lumber bin
j. B. Whelan e Co.. 4th &. Santa r.,
tracks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
MIDZUNO RECALLED.
Japanese Consul in st. Louis to Receive
Promotion.

New York, Nov. 11.-K. Midzuno
the Japanese consul general in this
city, who is now in st. Louis. has been
recalled to Japan and his friends I'M
derstand that he is to be promoted in
the diplomatic service of his country.
Mrs. Midzuno has left here for St
Louis and she and her husband will
go to San Francisco, from whence they
will sail for japan November 80. 1t
is understood that Mr. Midzuno will
return to this county in March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
Death in the Grant Family

San Diego, Nov. 11.-Mrs. U. s.
Grant, wife of a son of the late Pres
ident Grant died today of apoplexy
She had been an invalid for years.
Mrs. Grant was SO pears of age. She
is survived by her husband and five
children. Mrs. U. S. Macy, wife of
Lieutenant Macy, U. S. N. Chaffey
Grant, q. S. Grant ", Julia Dent
Grant and Fannie Grant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11

New York, Nov. 11-All grades of re-
fined sugar were advanced 10 cents per
100 pounds today, making standard
granulated 1928.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-11
Young Girls Are Victim $

of headache, as well as older women, but
all get quick relief and prompt cure from
Dr. Kings New Life Pills. the world S
best remedy for sick and nervous head
aches. They make pure blood, and strong
nerves and build up your health. Try
them 25c at Campbell Drug Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25

have no public schools for the accom- modation of their children.
 The true policy in any state is to disregard demagogues by giving all, re- gardless of race, the three Rs in edu- cation at public expense-reading Tit ing and 'rithmetie. There is nothing in the true nature of the negro or the true relations of the races" that for bids this even if Governor Smith as serts there is. In all southern cities public education goes beyond this rule, there being in most of them high schools for negro children.
 The south must largely depend upon negro labor in the next 90 years, and it would be a serious economic mis- take to adopt the Hoke Smith pro- gramme. There is no danger of it's adoption in Georgia, however where the Smith wave has subsided. On Sat urday next it will disappear from pub lie view altogether.
 Under the Smith plan the south would head all tables of illiteracy, and this section of the country would soon come to be known as one to be summed. Percentages of illiteracy can be reduced by teaching all, regardless of race, the rudiments of education. and compulsory attendance may be- come necessary in order to do this. The very reverse of Smithism is need ed in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
PaarY and Wellman

Peary has not been heard from since last August and "by good rights" this brave American should ere this have made a successful dash to the pole His journey in 1906 was made in March, April and May. In that jour ney he succeeded in reaching a point about 200 miles from his objective point, and it is known that he intended to start early this year, hoping in that way to find the ice secure and com pact enough for travel. Floating ice packs in August and Septe-hber rem der travelling near the pole difficult and really impossible. For this reason it is hoped that Peary has already reached the pole. No one else has had equal experience in Arctic travelling, and he-certainly can reach the pole if anyone in sledges can. News of his effort need not be expected much before the end of the year.
 Peary's success would be sad news to Walter Wellman, who is always about to go to the pole in a gasbag in vacation time. He is en route to Spitzbergen at the present time, and if he should actually go to the pole he may find that Peary had tied the stars and stripes to it and started homeward full of the spirit ohconquest and of anticipated book royalties, to say nothing of the glory that fills the breast of the explorer At any rate, 1t will be after August 1 a race be- tween Peary and Wellman, and may the better man win.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
Thirty-One Problems In a Test Case

The suits to test the 21a cents pas 110 commodities in this state have been advanced enough to stay the col lection of all claims for excess charges by the Louisville and Nashville and Central of Georgia railroads. Until the suits are finally determined claims for excess charges by these railroads can not be filed. These claims will gather mould and interest until the states rates are finally declared lawful with no 'confiscatory" edge in them.
 Young men will grow old and old men will pass away before these suits in all their phases are decided, for they are subject to almost endless ap- peals. The litigation will go on, how ever, unattended by the esteemed in- junction, and the people will have lost sight of it.
 l 1ue QuSollOuS Ol ldCI are tO D0 heard by special master instead of jury, and the inquiry relates in good part to earnings between April 1, 1907, and May 31. 1909. This period includes a severe panic and resultant depres- sion in general business, and the spe- cial master does not seem to be charged with the duty of measuring the effects of that panic. However, it is not matter of the volume of busi- ness so much as of rates, for it will not seriously be claimed that reduced rates reduce the volume of traffic.
 Altogether 32 problems are submit ted to the special master and he will go on calmly inquiring into them at good pay, and the people will jog along contentedly paying uniform rates. Let the special master proceed in his life work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
Trade Excursions By Auto

In the middle west trade centers are organizing trade excursions throughout contributory territory in automobiles. If our Business Mems League would organize such excursions they could readily in a week visit Jasper and Tus- caloosa on the west, the Decaturs, Cullman and Gadsden on the north, Anniston and Talladega on the east and Clanton and Greensboro on the south, together with all intervening towns A Kansas paper in describing one of these excursions says:
 'fThis was the first automobile excur- sion ever made by the merchants of country town, or any town we know of. Its purpose was that the business men might get out into the country and visit the farmers, not only those who patron. ize Frankfort and who patronize the neighboring towns, but also those who do not patronze home institutions as much as they should. Their object was to spread the gospel of standing up for your home town; to impress upon the farmer the benefits to be derived from country and towns working together Incidentally the excurslonists took along with them considerable advertising to prove to the farmers that they could sell better goods at less money than the mail order houses sell Added to these objects, of course, was the social feature of the trip; an outing for those who went and social and pleasant time for all. This was one of the few undertakings that has ever been known where business could be suc- cessfully combined with pleasure. It is also one of the few undertakings where every business firm united upon one prop osition and where all were well satisfied in the end"
 Omaha is about to organize similar excursion, and what Omaha considers needful and proper Birmingham can well afford to adopt and utilize. The larger the town the larger the scale of the excursion. and a good speaker or two should be a feature of the equipment. The subject deserves con sideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

tionably responsible for what has been achieved and will be just as unquestion- ably responsible for the future greatness of this favored spot of the south. The residence district embracing Highland avenue and the beautiful section along the hillsides of that vicinity are very lovely, and excited as much comment from the visiting newspaper men any other feat and smut by any means at Birmingham. The city has its aesthetic side, and few places have lovelier homes.
 The skysorapers of this hustling center suggest those of Greater Pittsburg. It has more probably than any city of it's size in the country, and one 15 or 20-story, marble-front building, which would look at home on Fifth avenue. New York city, Is Just approaching completion.
 The Birmingham citizens claim is that they can produce steel and iron cheaper there than any place in the world. and, at the same time, the city is permeated with the demand for protection. They don't need 1t, but claim they ought to have it because they are infants, and because Pennsylvania has enjoyed it through it's long period of infancy up to it's present giant growth.
 The one thing lacking at Birmingham is water transportation, though the agita- tion to secure this by canal is being ac- lively kept up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
LeprOSy Problems In Hawaii

Either men, wopen and children have been unjustly sent to the Molokai leper settlement, or else the disease has become ourable. Eleven persons who had been declared lepers have been taken from there by command of the legislature of Hawaii, and each one of the eleven has been declared free from the bacillus of leprosy Nineteen more are to be brought to Honolulu The meteorological test was applied to the eleven and will be applied to the nineteen that are to be brought from Molokai.
 Of the eleven persons released, ten are Hawaiian men and boys, and one was a Portuguese woman. It is one of the strange contradictions of human habit and temperament that of these eleven released from lifelong exile, eight have already petitioned the DOdrQ or nealIn to De allowed 10 re- turn to the settlement and live. Fa- miliarity with the disease has so. hard ened them to it's horrors that they seem no longer to have any fear of it. and the comfortable, easy life led there by the lepers. supported by the government, and not confined within enclosures, and with no indications of restraint except those of illimitable sea and unscalable mountains, appeals strongly as against the outlook of wrestling a scanty support by hard labor.
 How these thirty persons were cured should be told in an authoritative man. ner to the world, for heretofore. all have believed that no cure of the dis ease had been found-that it is the most elusive and mysterious of all dis eases, baffling all science and all med ical care and skill The story of the Thirty remains to be told. r,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
IlliteraCy In the South

Gov. Hoke Smith, who goes out of office on Saturday, fills his final mes sage to the Georgia legislature with theories thate he hopes will restore him to popular favor. Among other things he practically recommends that public education be confined to white chil- dren. He employs phrases that are open to double constructions, but in substance he advocates the education of white children by the state, leav- ing the black children untaught and unintelligent.
 This he does although he knows that negroes own property in Georgia to the extent of over $20,OO0,O0O in value, upon which school taxes are paid. This he does despite the fact that Georgia needs negro labor, and he knows that negroes will not stay in localities that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
Rains in 1862.

Tn the spring of 1862 we had in Vir- ginia just such a spell of weather as Alabama is having now" said Capt J. Lawler Darby. From the middle of April to the first days in May the Confederate and Federal armies were at Yorktown knee deep in mud. In the early part of May we retreated from Yorktown to Will liamsburg, Virginia's ancient capital, and the seat of William and Mary college. From there, houndering through the rain and mud, we marched to within few miles of Richmond.
 "The veterans now living who were on that retreat will remember 1t. We did not have time to think about crops, only the great crop of blue birds that General Mcclellan was raising. But now we are interested in knowing, if these rains con tinue. where our bread is coming from The country from Richmond to Yorktown I imagine. would be desirable place to live in with plenty of sunshine, but de- liver me from it when the floods and Yam kees come.
 ''At this time that I speak of, the James, Chickahominy. Pamunkey, Mattopani ana the York rivers were on a rampage Give ne the highlands of Alabama always
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
Corporations and the Tax.

The Wall Street Journal, which re- fleets the best sentiment of the financial interests of the country. takes this view of the proposed tax on corporations:
 "Foremont of all among corporate in- terests which have aught to fear from the tax on net earnings proposed by the fed eral government are those who shake in their shoes at the thought of the kind of publicity which turns the light upon in- side graft.
 Inside graft is today the thing that is doing probably as much as anything else to bring injury to honest investment and ruin to corporate morals Take, for in- tance, an official of a company who through his own commanding position sells to that company the name for package of food products at a royalty of s75,000 year, even though it was his bus mess to provide names for packages in his capacity as an official. Or another who gets s50,00O year for royalty for little piece of machinery which he de- vised and improved in business hours, even though it was his business to make all practical economies and Improvements as part of what he owed to the company whose stockholders paid him ample sal ary. The benefciaries of this indirect method of exploiting the investor will fight hardest against the tax.
 There are objections well worth weighing against the proposed tax on net earnings just as there might be against any taxation. Taxes in themselves are something of a necessary evil, but much of the protest against the proposed meas ure has it's root in rottenness rather than in righteousness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Judge Gary on the District.

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record is sending out with it's compliments to the press of the country the following special Correspondence under date of June 23:
 Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, in the course of letter to the Manufacturers Record in regard to the probable fur ther development of the properties in the Alabama iron district controlled by the corporation, says:
 We have a very high opinion of our properties there. I have no hesitation it to our great benefit to continue the expenditure of large sums of money in the development of our properties and the increase of our business in the south. All will realize that 1t takes a great deal of time and money to properly extend a great manufacturing plant. I think the natural resources and location of the Birmingha am district make it one of the best places for the manufacture and distribution of iron and steel products"
 Commenting on these statements the Manufacturers Record says that since the Steel corporation purchased the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany IS months ago, 1t has expended about $6 ,000,0 in the betterment of it's Alabama plants and that, as indicated by Judge Garys letter, continued large development work will doubtless be
  as rapidly as the situation justities 1t; and to this adds, "the statement made by Judge Gary that the natural re- sources and location of the Birmingham district make it one of the best places for the manufacture and distribution of iron and steel products will in It. self carry weight throughout the busi- ness world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
Odors in Courtroom.

Several years ago John Sparrow described the recorders courtroom as the Court of the Forty Odors,'" said an old citizen. Persons who are com peued to visit this temple of justice are now declaring that the odors have married and that their descendants have increased the number to over a thousand odors.
 "The courtroom is always full at the two daily sessions and the close ness Is nauseating. It has windows only on one side and at one end of the room, and these open upon narrow courtways. Across one courtway is the city jail, which has an even greater variety of odors than the courtroom.
 "'How can the city expect to dispense full justice in hole like this? a policeman asked me yesterday. We officers are compelled to come here al- most daily. As rule we. must sit for an hour or two before our cases come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-25
RECESSIONAL.
 (1897)

By Kipling.
 God of our fathers, known of old,
 Lord of our far-f1ung battle-line,
 Dominion over palm and pine Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies;
 The captains and the kings depart: Still stand Thine ancient sacrifice,
 An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget! Far-called, our naVies melt away;
 On dune and headland sinks the f1rei Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
 Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations. spare us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget! If, drunk with sight of power, we loos' Wild tongues that have not Thee il
 awe,
 Such boasting-a as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we rorget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reelxing tube and iron shard, All valiant dust that builds on dust,
 And guarding. calls not Thee to guard For frantic boast, and foolish word Thy Mercy on Thy People. Lord!