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The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09
sENEs oLENT AND PROTECTIVE
 ORDER OF ELKS.

SzaSway Lodge, No, s3l, B, ?. O. EIzs. meets every Thursday eyeatns m each month al S.30 p m. Visit, ing Brothers ara cordially invited
 F. A. Ca.lAEmau. Sec. A cordial 4,.---Ja .7 -A- ---- c. "a visiting brJLech
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09
BREgTlRl 0F FallERslL SOCIETIES
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD.

Regular meetings ot Camp SSag say. No. ! every Tuesday aJ S,3t o'clock sharp, In A D. baL Brual yky.
 Visiting brothers are cordially ID- dtsd
 l. ]. Chambers, A. c. 2. J DOheg0, A B.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

He didn't Elos shsaee au the LoTIueF uo1ey cane, b-I La FoE lstLs ass sSyy eer.A-H t14l part 0t q. cane fTou Wsl street Pal lE d0su lhzI J1e Wlsooasiu senator's presidential smbltoas are u1g sllos- la hlm lo 5yegsS0k Aay opportunities
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

ras Dougas News says Jhs Jun Szl organ ol Saaeklet0gd. Hogsai, G Co has JlFnsd yraiLoE and fired into lae ranks.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

CASH WILL BE PAID for a small office cabinet suitable for stationary, JsCter file. etc. Let ne know what you have; perhaps can use it. Adj dress P. O. Box "H. SkazWay. e
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

Come la OF phone orders for G,J s0a rye. Rainier and OUmp.a b5~cr delivered Co yOuE hODs by The Mas. sot u
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

Co sk.a Wall street. that always be- -lg a popal4E target for 0PpEohrium. = La.aaa N.as
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09
MOORE'S MHRRF co.

Terminus p. & Y, Route bound Steamers Arrive and Dock
 REGULATIONS ist0 Warehouses o2aa for delivery ehAlhse from b Pershaslss ONLY delivered on Sunday uisaL Al h shipments s5uhbclai accompanied by SHIPPERS MANIFEST lp4pers obtained the U tous on1esJ and must be Eelsal wi bs received on this hour BAGaAGE-Tus suI be collected CHECEEl EAGCA5E oNLt No elargs tlr bags and srls u4caeeArt Tns t public when -ots and slI bs Jay passengers lEembaEed Waartass Tariff on ENcauou office D. O. ssx ITS E. L SHAN, General Manager.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09
GRAND ABDUCTION OF STOCK
 SALE

The Pack Train s now selling tlg lUt 0f Good Goods sy reduced prices as they are setting too old go hold ana sell a. a profit Yours,
 f Herman Grimm
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

Weather observation at Clarks Ranch t2 miles north Of Moors's wharfl
 Maximum temp. past 2i hts 10 above M. .furuuF sh1ve Mean ah0se
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09
snsalI HElI8ER REP0aI

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 Resalts 0s the Ohseryati0as taken As Moors's Wharf as midnight. March $, Is}l, Is aS follows
 Esmperslgre tine oossryssn 5 ao5vs SAA, ssnp. preceding s4 hours 2l above N.u 8 above Mean 60 l3 above
 BSromsgs, g % Clogdy Nr.a Wnl
The daily Alaskan., 1911-03-09

subscrI6s to- ths DalIy Alaskan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
A MUNICIPAL CONGRESS.

Experts of international fame, and
officials from all the large cities in the
world will gather in Chicago in Septem-
her, to attend the International NUM-
cipal congress, writes H. H. Windsor
in the August number of Popular Me-
chanies Magazine. The purpose OF the
congress is to exchange ideas with a
view to each visitor finding some fea-
ture of benefit not at present known or
employed in his own city. For exam
pie. Berlin leads the world in street
Improvement and modern architecture,
London, in the handling Of traffic; while
in Paris the names of great men in
the history of France and other coun-
tries are posted on the city lamp posts,
not as names of streets but in order
that the children may become familiar
with their lives and deeds Washing
ton and Lincoln are two of the Ameri
cans thus honored. One has but to
contemplate the billions of dollars in
vested in streets, sewers. s-ity water
and lighting plants, parks, play
grounds, school buildings. city admin
istration buildings, fire and police de-
partments and scores of other NUM-
cipal properties to realize the enormous
scope of the congress.
The program comprises Is general
subjects with SO subdivisions, any one
Of which alone might profitably employ
the convention for an entire week. In
addition there viii be a great display
Of exhibits, classified under 14G heads,
Ct appliances and materials used in the
building and operating of cities towns
and villages. The congress viii last
two weeks. all its deliberations win be
open to the public; and will unques-
tiouably result in saving millions of
dollars by reason of more permanent
improvements. Towns of 1900 popula-
ton up cannot make a better invest
ment than sending a city official to
study in this great international school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

[From the Atchison Globel
Almost any one can circulate a pc
tition.
Busy women do no more gossiping
than busy men.
Getting ones fortune told is no
way to increase it,
Arrest all or none. Was more ever
said in four words?
Being willing is not enough; you
must deliver the goods.
If a man is fine coaversationalist
the chances are he talks to- much.
Ever return from a vacation feel
ing better than when you went away?
Women who love their husbands
worry too much about what to cook
Considering the kind of trousers he
is expected to wear, a sailors pay is
too small.
few people have so much ambi-
ton they would rather hunt cover
than freeze.
Next to the dead beat, the sneak
thief is probably the most despised
type of crook
If man has plenty of money that
is no reason why he should talk about
it all the time.
There are no sadder sights than
brown grass when it should be green,
but they aren't numerous.
A school of baseball players would
do a big business If the boys could
raise the price of tuition
By being on the square and keeping
everlastingly at it, you can give hard
times a run for his money
Patriotic as Americans are. it must
be admitted that the word imported
appeals to them a good deal.
Dyspepsia is becoming serious
when it will bluff a man away from
his favorite kind of pie.
While a man frequently threatens
to make long story short, he is
more apt to reverse the order
Possibly you waste some time
watching men who walk like they
might fall to pieces, but who never
do.
A thin man gets sympathy when he
can't gain a pound. and fat man gets
the laugh when he tries to lose one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
THE CROPS AND BUSINESS.

AS the business and financial situa-
tons in this country are dependent in
a large measure for their activity, or
lack of it. on the yield of the nations
crops, nothing. of course. is watched
closer than they are by the big finan-
ciers. And in the current weekly
financial review issued by Henry
Clews, the New York banker and
broker, is a searching review of the
crop conditions which is certainly of
interest in this section, where SO much
loose talk has been INDUCED in of late
concerning the "crop failures" that
were going to be experienced this year
with their attendant injury to a reign
of prosperity in the business world.
On this important subject, Mr.. Clews
writes. in part, as follows:
at is desirable to bear in mind that
the governments presentation Of har-
vest prospects probably showed condi-
tons at their worst. Both corn and
spring wheat had been subjected to a
protracted period of drOuth that had
eliminated in a heat wave of great
intensity. But the departm ents figures
cover only conditions up to July and
in some instances are not even as late
as that date. Consequently, the very
general rains that subsequently, &C.
Cured throughout the corn and spring
wheat areas, and which Warded off the
impending serious injury to the crops.
were not considered. Recognition of
this fact is probably the real basis for
the stubborn firmness that prevailed
in the market during the closing days
of the week, notwithstanding the ex-
IRENE dulIness already referred to.
But taking the grain report at its
face value, and. for argument, ignoring
the favorable developments that have
since resulted, the harvest prospects
must still be regarded far above the
average The governme report in
dicates that the winter wheat harvest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18

will reach 458,OO0,OOO bushels, which
is within 5000, 600 bushels of the act
ua1 harvest of last year. The spring
wheat promise is estimated at 245,-
100000 bushels, or 13,60O,000 bushels
in excess of last years spring wheat
product, making the total wheat out
look 703. 100000 bushels, or $780,
600 bushels in excess of the 1910 har-
vest. To properly appreciate the fav-
orable character of these figures it
may be stated that the present out
look, Notwithstanding the damage, has
only been exceeded thrice in the rec
ords of the department OF agriculture;
namely. by the wheat harveSts of 1903
1906 and 1901.
1.-THE same general remarks apply
to corn. If we exclude the bumper
crop of last year, the present pros
poets for this year have never been
exceeded; and in view of the improve
ment that has taken place since the
first of the month, it is not yet certain
that the yield this year will fail to
finally become a record-marker. The
present outlook for 1855, 100000 bush
els is less than 100000 bushels be-
low last years product and We have
this year the highly important figure
of the crop being fully a fortnight
early, which means that it will all be
gathered, and will not, as is usually
the case, have considerable growth
suddenly cut off by frosls at the end
Of the season. The feed crops oats
and hay, are unquestiondbly below last
year. And this is a fact that will
mean a large increase in the demand
for corn as a substitute
Taking a broad view, therefore, of
the agricultural prospects with
bumper yield of cotton-between a.,
100000 and 100000 bales-almost
assured with corn unlikely to reach
a high-water mark, and with wheat
well above the average, it Il certainly
too early to take a pessimistic view
either of the volume of the crops or
the prospects for improved trade and
industry that Will follow continued ag-
ricultural prosperity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
HARD ON AID yALoREM.

1t begins to look as though the aero
plane business was going to play hob
with ad valorem. When diamonds
and other fine stones and valuable
commodities, put up in small packages
are brought into the United States,
man with brass buttons and tons of
authority takes part of the value of
the diamond, for duty, VIE ad valorem,
and the deed is done.
But enterprising men, With aero
plane wings and a gasoline power
plant can skite around the country in
any direction they choose now and
snap their fingers at the customs house
man, who still has his brass buttons
and authority, but no aeroplane. So if
any of these fiiers wanted to do so,
they could easily smuggle a few pack
ages of diamonds or other valuable
stones or fine goods, and get awa~
with it, without the government being
any the wiser.
So it seems that ad Valorem, which
has had a cinch ON imp ortations and
has kept an eye peeled for the buyer
of fine things. is to get it in the neck
at last, unless the government buys a
lot of air ships and teaches the Gus
toms man to fly and fly high, as well
as to invoke ad valorem.-Hutchinso
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
LAYHAWKER JOTy

This subject of good roads has be-
come a fad of late, says the Overlook
Citizen, and it is one of the best fads
we ever heard of.
Now that potatoes are sold by the
pound or the dozen, the Wdthena Times
wonders what has become of the old
fashioned folk who used to buy pota-
toes by the bushel-
We really did not think that there
was as large this years potatoes as the
two r. r. Beridge left here Friday. says
the Soldier Clipper. We did not keep
them in the safe but close by, so we
could put them in quickly if we saw
any highwaymen approaching.
Advertisements in the Eureka Dem
ocratic Messenger call attention to the
fact that in one of the show windows
in town is an empty dress suitcase that
is strong enough to hold up 500 pounds
of rock This will strike many Kan
sans as being just the kind of suit
case for a trip from their prohibition
state to Kansas City, Mo.
They tell it on a prominent young
man of this place. confides the Iuka
Index, that he got SO ratified on leaving
church Sunday evening that he actually
started off with the wrong rig. After
he has been married a few years he
will come down to earth again. Still,
that was better, and more easy to ex-
plain, than if he had taken the wrong
girl.
The Forest Hill correspondent of the
Chase County Leader also furnished
the following last week:
A health to the girl that can dance
like a dream,
And the girl that can pound the piano
A health to the girl that writes verse
by the ream,
or toys with high c in soprano;
To the girl that can talk, and the
girl that does not.
To the saint and the sweet little sin
ner-
But here's to the cleverest girl of
The girl that can cook a good dinner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
CRANDNroTHER,s I,ETrERs.

GRANDMOTHER'S LETTERS.
Grandmother's lettersi Years ago
Into this box she put them, SO.
Tied them about with ribbon blue,
Ever the symbol of lovers true.
Laid them between with lavender
Who, I wonder, pluclxed it fer her.
Here is a faded rose. Did she,
In years gone by, at some revelry.
Let its soft petals caress her hair.
Or did 1t rest on her bosom fair?
Maybe. some eve in the Long Ago.
Grandfather gave it to her, and so,
As the Arab marks the day that is flown
or JOY intense, with white, white stone
Grandmother laid this rose away,
Because of the giver. Who can say?
Grandmother's letters, years have fled.
The writer of each has long been dead.
Yet as read them through and through
know grandmother once listened to
The joyous chat and the badinage
Or her social group, while, fair mirage,
Loves castle doomed in her Futures sky
In answer to her hearts prophecy
Grandfather counts, Of years fourscore.
Lives in the days that are no more.
Grandfather's eyes look far away
Grandfather says that she died in May,
May of the year and May of her life,
only short, short year his wife.
Yet as he brushes away his tears,
From Time is stricken full sixty years,
And grayeyed Mary is by his side
Just as she was when his young bride.
Grandfather tells of her ripping hair,
OF rose-red bloom on the cheek so fair,
OF the grave. sweet mouth. the slender
throat,
OF merry laugh like a wiId-bird's note,
OF the height and breadth and depth of
When he was young and she was his
Then-she fell asleep. Grandfather yet,
AT his four-score years, does not forget.
E E. K, in the Toronto (Kan.) Repub-
Hcan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
QUAKER NfEDIrATIoNs.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.l
Don't talk too much about the value
of silence.
A full head of hair adorns many an
empty pate.
The trolley company reports no
complaints about unheated cars.
No girl likes to have her nose re-
ferred to as the pink of perfection.
1t isn't wise to lay your heart at the
Wigg-"Guzzler is a fellow who
wants the EARTH Wagg-"And the
fullness thereof"
The people who never marry are
not the only ones who have been dis
appointed in love.
"Win you marry me?" he cried.
ASK mamma" she said And that's
how she got a stepfather.
The price of umbrellas seldom huc-
tuates, in spite of the fact that they
always go up when it rams.
In spite of the fact tha- matches
are supposed to be made in heaven
some of them are tipped with brim-
stone.
1.-The greatest thing in the world is
love-" quoted the Wise Guy. Eyes, a.
young mans love is gen orally greater
than his bank. account agreed the
Simple Mug
Observation-Disclosures claim that wom-
en- are more susceptible tC death from
the effect of germs than men,
Slobbs-'I had no idea the microbe
was such lady killer"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFIOm the chicago News
fool and his money are soon
started
Meet people with a smile unless
they are borrowers.
We should have but few regrets if
people didn't find US out.
It is usually easier to plan the work
than It is to work the plan.
You can't guard your neighbours
tongue. but you can close your ears.
Ever notice that a train is nearly
always late when you are early?
1t was a small boy who said: "A
soft aunt, sir, turneth away wrath"
A publication devoted to the inter
ests of janitors would be rather fat
man may be in love without be-
ing quite insane enough for a padded
cell.
When a man gets a swelled head
there is no more in it than there il
in a toy balloon
Tomorrow never omes-unless 1t is
the first of the month with it's burden
Of annoying bills.
Formerly a bride knew how to keen
house. Now She is lucky if she knows
how to keep a cook
If man has no time to devote 70
public affairs it's a pretty good sign
that his private graft is satisfactory
Probably no other genius ever stir
red up as much trouble for mankind
in general as the one who invented fha
lawn mower.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
BRIDGES NEED REBUILDING.

E11LOlEEE5 NLlELAJ AAAlAAA<OAAN~@s
Commissioner Tandy's suggestion
that Topeka, through a vote of its peo-
pie, issue bonds to the amount Of
$50. 900 for rebuilding the most of the
bridges within the city limits, seems an
expensive one at first glance But If
the proposition is analysed, it will
probably strike most of the taxpayers
as being a wise one. Considering the
assessed valuation Of the property in
Topeka, the city has not a large pub
lie debt. Proportionate with the debt
CT other cities in comparison with tax
able valuation of their property, the
Topeka public debt is really a small
one. And so it would not make it
unduly burdensome to go into this
bridge REBUILDING business through q
bond issue.
In the first place, fifteen of the
eighteen tin bridges" within the city
limits are actually in need of rebuild
ing Some of them are in really dan
gerous condition. Under the ordinary
city tax levy, and tie portion of the
money raised by it that is allotted for
bridge work or for the conduct Of the
whole department under which this
WDIk tOIu6Sp there NOulN AtOl NC
ficient funds to do all of this work as
soon as it needs to be done. Hence
the necessity for a bond issue, so that
a sufficient sum will be available for
undertaking this work on a common
surate scale.
Surely there will be no difference of
opinion. except perhaps on the part If
the people engaged in the business of
building the iron structures that are
more familiarly known as tin bridges, .
that the bridges of this type within the
city limits should be substituted with
concrete structures WI erever it is prac-
ticable to put such a bridge. And It
has been proven right here in Topeka
that it is perfectly feasible to span
such a stream as The Kaw with
bridge of this sort.
In the long run it will probably be an
economical move on the part of the
people If they decide to go into this re-
building of the bridges on wholesale
plan. The concrete bridges that will
take the places Of the present struc-
lures will stand firm and secure for
many, many years. Once in position,
the cost Of maintaining them except as
to renewing their pavements occasion
ally, is absolutely nothing. Indeed, 1t
will be money we'll spent to follow Mr..
Tandys suggestions in this particular.
And it may be much money saved 10
the city through damages that might
be incurred if some of the tin bridges
collapsed in the immediate future. A
big claim is sure to be filed against
Shawnee county for the death of the
man who was killed in frightful fash
ion only the other day through a col
lapse of one Ct it's tin bridges
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
KANSAS COAAENF
ANNUAL WORRY OVER CROPS.

ANNUAL WORRY OVER CROPS.
Wall street has had its eye very
closely on the ticker and its ear tight
ly glued to the telephone the past
week, at this critical period for the
great cotton and cereal crops. The
record breaking heat and cloudless
skies led Western and Southern bank
ers to look more CLOSELY to note col
lectionss and the merchant to cancel
orders.
There is disposition to take too
seriously the crop reports issued by
the government and private agencies
The investigation a few years ago OF
the methods of collecting the cotton
reports showed that $4,000 Individual
estimates have to be compiled and
digested.
Keen judges have always expressed
the feeling that large section of these
reporters were giving the government
nothing worth having. What is need
ed is more paid agents with special
gifts and facilities for making such
estimates.
While individual errors are elimi-
mated from such widespread sources
errors due to general tendencies of
temperament will be fourd. The isola-
ton OF the farmer, his struggle against
the fmmutable power OF weather con-
ditions, produces in him certain pes
slmlsm. He perhaps has to be a peSsl-
mist in order to protect his own peace
of mind If he were constantly taking
rosy views he continually would be
overwhelmed with despair at the fail
ure of his hopes. If he takes the phil
osophical view that crops are always
likely to be poor, he is no worse of if
his predictions are reversed. and he
does not suffer the pangs of disap-
pointment when failure comes.
Undoubtedly this tcmperamental
pessimism of the farmer is the cause
of the crop scares over which Wall
street gets in a blue funk regularly at
this time of year. A philosophic pes
simism may be the most comfortable
point of view to take regarding pow
ers of nature that are beyond control,
but it is not an accurate basis for sci
entihc information
The crops of our country are so
varied that no total failure is possible.
The weather conditions that hurt one
locality and one crop help others. Let
no one get scared merely because
spectators are trying to make money
by depressing stocks.-Winheld Cour-
Ter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
CHILDREN.s sroRIEs.

A short time ago woman and two
men were arrested in Maine upon a
charge of murder. Suspicion had been
excited against them by the statements
of two little girls, daughters Of the
woman. One of them is six years old,
the other nine. They tod a wonder
full circumstantial story of how man
had come to their house, how two
other men came afterward, how the
first conner had been killed and his
body buried in the woods.
The man said to have been killed
had disappeared from the neighbor-
hood about the time fixed by the child
ren, and that fact to some extent con-
firmed the story. Arrests were made.
Search was undertaken for the buried
body, but none was found. Still the
prisoners were held. Then one day
came information that the man sup
posed to have been slain was in Can
ada, safe and sound. The whole story
was a childs romance.
The incident is AZ new refutation of
the popular belief that fools, children
and drunkards tell the truth. The lips
of babes are supposed TO be the lips of
innocence. Because a child can have
no self-interest in a. lie, It is assumed
he never lies Many a neighborhood
or family has been maintained by a
blind faith that the babble of chill
dren must be true; that some ugly
story they tell could not nave been in
vented by them.-New York World.