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WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, OCTOBER 4, 1905.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TWO CENTS.
WEEDS IT. j
IS LIKE ADANIEL,
Dr. Chapman's Reference to
Governor Hoch.
Places Him by Side of Hanly and
Folk.
SAYS THAT HE IS BRAVE
Didn't Give Any Specific In
stances of Courage.
Befers Briefly to the Topeka
Police Scandal.
An Audience ot 2,000 at the
Auditorium.
Twice did Dr. J. Wilbijr Chapman
draw applause from 2,000 listeners to
h(y evangelistic sermon at the Audi
t" yAum on Tuesday night. In the early
lart of his address he denominated
Governor Hoch of this state a modern
Daniel, alongside of Governor Hanly
of Indiana and Governor Folk of Mis
souri. "Daniel was one of these test
ed characters." said Dr. Chapman,
laying the entire stress of his voice on
the word "tested." "He was praised
as Governor Folk is praised, true as
Governor Hanly is true, and brave and
courageous as the governor of your
own state. There are Daniels of the
present time. They belong not alone
to one party, to one creed, to one
class, to one state, but to all."
The second time that Dr. Chapman
made the finger tips of his audience
tingle was when he poured a few
vltrioiic words against the recent po
lice scandal, though he mentioned no
names. "It was a shameful, shameful
story that your newspapers printed
the other day."
This was all he mentioned with re
gard to the police trouble, though he
prefaced his remarks concerning it
with this story, and it makes his words
more clear:
A father waited late one night for
his boy, who he knew was out drunk
and debauched. It was almost the
midnight hour when he heard the
son's unsteady footsteps resound on
the doorsill.
"Come in," said the father, mo
tioning the boy to a seat. Then the
father drew out of his pocket a re
volver and handing it to his son, said:
"Go into your mother's bedroom.
Take this revolver and place its bar
rel against one of her temples and
pull the trigger. Kill her all at once.
Don't stab her to death. day after day.
week after week, month after month,
and drag out her life to an awful fatal
misery."
"The Handwriting on the Wall."
the famous story of Daniel and Bel
shazar. taken from the fifth chapter
of the Book of Daniel, furnished the j
theme and text for Dr. Chapman.
Just before the sermon commenced
Fred Butler sang the song from the I
hymnal used at the meeting, "The j
Handwriting on the Wall." The Im- ;
pression on the audience made by Mr. ;
Butler was strong, and Dr. Chapman j
was not slow in taking advantage of
it and launching forth in the discus
sion of his text.
"If any of you have been down
south," said Dr. Chapman, "you have
heard the song:
He hears all we say,
He sees all we do;
My God's a-wfitin' all the time.
"Swing back to the feast of the last
king of the Babylons. See the waters
play in the beautiful gardens, satiate
yourself with the sweet music, beautiful
women and well dressed men come and
go, all of it is beautiful, rich, luxurious,
and full of ease.
"Now 1 want to introduce you to two
people, Belshazzar, king of Babylon,
and the ideal of the true young man,
Daniel. The first was rich, powerful,
haughty and strong in temporal powers.
The other was kind. God-fearing, soul
ful, a Christian gentleman.
"Belshazzar tasted the wine, until it
made his blood hot. Then he asked his
servants to bring the golden vesseis
from the temple, and he profaned them.
He profaned God!
"You cannot nut God out of your
reckoning. You cannot trifle with sin:
I tell you, my people, God is omnipres
ent. You must reckon with Him.
"Then came the handwriting on the
vail. A young man, our Daniel arose,
and deciphered it. 'You are weighed in
the balances and found wanting.'
"And that night the king was slain.
"Oh the beginning and the ending of
things. In the beginning music, wine
song. You almost wished you were
there. But at the end. blanched faces,
staggering fear, and death, and you al
most say, 'God save me from such an
end.'
"Just a few days ago a young girl of
Milwaukee, a graduate of Vassar, com
mitted suicide. While at college she
trifled with sin. That was the begin
ning," and holding aloft a Bible in
the other hand. Dr. Chapman exclaimed,
"this is the ending."
"A famous western editor as a boy
went to an Indiana city to begin a pa
per. There he was met by one of the
citizens who told him that he would fail
unless he joined the Round Table crowd.
"What is that?" asked the young edi
tor. "It is a place where we meet for lunch
at noon." was the reply. "Sometimes
we drink, sometimes smoke and often
play cards."
"No," replied the young editor. "I
will not join you."
"Then you will fail," was jeered at
him.
"A few days ago," continued Dr. Chap
man, "a well-dressed elderly man, with
much oi this world's goods, stepped
from a trai::,nd hurried to a hotel in
a large eastern city. A man, clad in
rags, stepped forth from the shadows
of a big building and held out his hand
for alms. The well-dressed man was
our editor friend, ami the beggar was a
member of the Rpund Table crowd,
who had told the man he was now ask
ing aid from, that he would fail. The
beginning and the ending. It is the old
story.
"Not long ago I was In the mint at
Philadelphia, There I was shown a
pair of scales. Two cards of even weight
were laid on the perfect balances. Then
I was asked to write my name on one.
As I laid It back on the balances, the
lead from my pencil made the card
heavier than the other. Would you
wish to be judged by so perfect a meas
ure. But God's is more perfect. Weigh
ed in the balances and found wanting.
Seek for the compassion of Jesus."
After Dr. Chapman's conclusion prob
ably fifty people raised their hands ask
ing for prayers. Half that number sign
ed pledges to "become Christians.
At the Central Church.
Dr. Ostrom used as the central figure
of his sermon last night the character
of the disciple Thomas and treated him
in a manner new and even unique,
showing that the steps by which he
dropped from the position of a consist
ent believer to that of a man who could
doubt and distrust were the same as
those followed by every backslider since
his time. The sermon was an eloquent
plea for the renewal of their covenant
on the part of those who had lost the
keen edge off their faith for any of
many reasons. The silence during the
singing of the solo, "Grace," by Mr.
Hlllls was intense. This proved one of
the most pleasing and effective numbers
he has rendered during this series of
meetings.
Before the benediction was pronounced
announcement was made that there
would be no after-meeting, but in spite
of this fact many lingered and here and
there about the church were groups of
three and four and more, some asking
and others answering questions.
DEVLIN MAY WAIT.
Hinted That He Won't Return From
Abroad. Now.
Will Devlin return? A number of
he people who are intimately interest
ed in the bankruptcy proceedings rath
er credit the theory that C. J. Devlin
will not return to Topeka on the lth
of this month. They are not fixing
any date but they are wisely shaking
their heads and intimatins thai the
former millionaire coal operator will de
cide to remain abroad for still sev
eral months.
John L. Christopher, nephew of C. J.
Devlin, said this morning that he had
not received any word from Mr. Devlin
for some time. He claimed that he had
no idea when the party expected to re
turn to the United States. Receiver J.
T. Bradley of the First National rather
is inclined to the belief that Mr. Devlin
will see fit to remain in France a fe v
more months. "I saw that Mrs. Devlin
had sold her horses and stock by auc
tion," said he this morning. "I haven't
the least idea w-hat she is going to do
with the $20,000. But I should, think
that if they intended to come back that
they would have looked after that trans
action. At least I should think that
the ordinary person if he expected to ie
turn would want to superintend a busi
ness matter which involved .o large an
t'n'cjnt."
"I have been pessimistic for some
time about Mr. Devlin's quick return,"
said Sam Radges. "I don't know
much about it. There is one thing,
though, that I do know, and that is,
if there is an attempt made to delay
that creditors' meeting from the 19th
of October t'Jere is going to be trouble.
These receivers are going to hear from
the creditors. We have been pretty
patient. I think. an,d we have not de
manded anything unreasonable. We
are worried, many of us, about the
outcome of things and we won't stand
for a further delay. If they try to
put us off again on the 19th we shall
resort to some legal action to make
them divulge what they know conf
ct rning the liabilities and assets of the
estate. It looks to me as if most of
this business is wrapped up in poli
tics." TO LAWYERS $1,103,920!
Astounding Legal Expenses of New
York Life Insurance Company.
New York, Oct. 4. President John
A. McCall of the New York Life In
surance company testified before the
insurance investigation committee to
day that the New York Life Insurance
company's expense for legal services
fmm June 1. 1900 to August 31, 1905,
ere $1,103,920. Of this amount Mr.
McCall said Andrew Hamilton re
ceived $476,927.
In states where Mr. Hamilton looked
after legislation Mr. McCall said he
was expected to deal with the men
who could produced the results.
DEATHS AND FUNEBALS.
Loonus Brake, age 39 years, died on
Tuesday of typhoid fever at 1256 Lane
street. The funeral took place at 3:30
this afternoon. Interment in Topeka
cemetery.
Harry Smith, the son of Mrs. Louisa
A. Smith, died at the home of his
brother. Joseph Smith, 922 North Har
rison street, this afternoon at 1 o'clock.
The deceased was a sufferer from con
sumption. The funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
Bobbins' Extravagant Wife.
"Have a cigar," said Bobbins.
"Don't care if I do," said Robbins.
The two men were seated in their
luxuriously appointed club, and had
fallen into that intimate and confiden
tial conversation In which men occa
sionally indulge.
"You appear gloomy," Robbins re
marked. "Well. I don't mind telling you. old
man, that my wife's extravagance
would be enough to make any man
have the dumps at times. I don't like
to sa it. and I should dislike to ap
pear small"
"Tell me about it. old boy."
"Oh. it's pretty constant, but the
latest thing she wants is a new hat.
Of course. I want her to be a credit
to me, but as I suggested to her. she
had a new one only last spring. Wo
men are expensive luxuries."
"So some of my married friends tell
"Yes, they have no conception of a
man's necessary expenses have a gin
fizz?"
"Don't care if I do."
They had it.
"For instance, what do they know
about one's club expense? 1 only be
long to three clubs and you know
how essential it is to keep up on that
sort of thing and although the three
combined cost little more than my
iamny expenses, still the
woman can't understand
unt, and a
It is a pity
otherwise
they are so extravagant, for c
they would be quite desirable.'
"So some of my married
say." said Robbins. "It's
about their extravagance,
game of poker?"
friends
too bad
Have a
"Don't care if I do." said Bobbins.
"Five dollar limit?"
"Sure."
But ahough Bobbins said so little,
it should bo evident to evervbody that
he must have been sorry for Robbins.
ban Francisco Call.
W.G.T.jKSESSION
State Meeting Opens in Topeka
With 100 Delegates.
Visitors Enthusiastic Over
Governor Uoch's Move.
DEVOTED TO PRAYER.
Will Hold a Big Meeting
Tonight.
Governor Hoch, Mrs. McCarter
and Others to Speak.
More than one hundred delegates
from all over the state were present at
the First Baptist church this morning
to attend the first regular session of
the twenty-seventh annual convention
of the Kansas Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union. It is expected that by
this evening there will be at least one
hundred and fifty delegates present
and this will be a considerable number
more than attended the annual con
vention at Wichita last year. This in
crease in the atetndance or delegates
is pointed to by the officers of the or
ganization as evidence that the cause
of temperance in Kansas is gaining in
strength each year.
Great jubilation is expressed among
the delegates over the recent stand
taken by Governor E. W. Hoch looking
towards the enforcement of the pro
hibitory law in Kansas City and at a
meeting of the executive committee of
the society the following resolution
was prepared for presentation to the
convention today:
"Resolved, That we unanimously
endorse Governor Hoch in his efforts
to enforce the prohibitory law by ap
pointing assistant attorney generals for
counties where the law is most openly
defied, and thank him for his heroic
work under great opposition; we be
lieve it but a beginning of a campaign
for law enforcement that will extend
throughout the state."
This resolution was adopted by a
unanimous vote and with handclapping
at the meeting this morning..
Prior to the calling to order of the
convention at 9 o'clock by the presi
dent, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hutchinson of
Winfleld, there was an hour devoted to
an evangelistic and prayer conference
under the leadership of the Rev. Edith
Hill Booker of Caney.
After the convention had been called
to order and the roll of delegates had
been called by the recording secre
tary, Mrs. Lillian Mitchher, reports of
the district presidents on the work in
their localities during the year were
presented by Mrs. -Lottie Case of To
peka, Mrs. Sena H. Wallace of Kansas
City, Miss Mary E. Dobbs of Niotaze,
Mrs. S. C. South of Burlington, Rev. E.
F. St. John of Salina, Mrs. Eva Mur
phy of Goodland. and Mrs. Ola Watson
of Argonia. Reports were also pre
sented from the lecture bureau secre
tary, the trustees of Willard Hall, the
state corresponding secretary, the
midyear executive meeting and the
executive committee meeting of yes
terday. There was an evangelistic service
at 11:30 o'clock led by Rev. Eugenia
F. St. John, and at noon there was a
prayer meeting. An adjournment was
taken after this until 1:30 o'clock,
when the proceedings were resumed
with devotional exercises led by Rev.
Anna Shively. Working committees
were appointed by the president and
reports were received from the state
organizers and lecturers; on state or
ganization by Mrs. L. B. Smith; from
the superintendents of departments on
social meetings, red letter days, fairs,
open air meetings, music, temperance
literature, press, medal contests, work
among soldiers, summer assemblies,
non-alcoholic medication, and health
and heredity.
After these reports ah intermission
was had for the purpose of introduc
ing the visitors to each other. This
was followed by superintendents' re
ports on purity, purity in literature
and art. franchise, legislation, flower
mission, evangelistic, parliamentary
usage, and anti-narcotics. Mrs. Ro
setta B. Hastings read a synopsis of a
story written by her entitled "Jane
McGregor." Mrs. Hastings is super
intendent of anti-narcotics.
After the transaction of some mis
cellaneous business the convention ad
journed until this evening. At this
evening's session greeting are to be
delivered to the delegates by represen
tatives of various institutions and so
cieties in Topeka.
Governor B. W. Hoch is to make
an address for the state, and the eth
ers to speak are Mrs. Margaret Hill
McCarter, for the W. C. T. U.; Mrs.
Clement Smith, for the city federa
tion of women's clubs; J. B. Larimer,
for the Y. M. C. A.; L. D. Whittemore,
for the city schools; Norman Plass,
for Washburn college; Bishop Mills
paugh. for Bethany college; Rev.
Thomas S. Young, for the Ministerial
association; and E. B. Cowgill, for the
State Temperance union. Responses
are to be made to these greetings by
Mrs. Eva Murphy, of Goodland, and
the Rev. Edith Hill Booker, of Caney.
Noticeable among the delegates at
the convention are four veterans of
the civil war from the national mili
tary home at Lansing. They are
Thomas Haskins, Charles Ellison,
Charles W. Helvey and David Pearce.
Mr. Helvey is totally blind, and he and
his associates are delegates from the
Christian Temperance union at the
home. Mrs. Mary A. Walker. of
Lansing, who is president of the union
at the home, is with the delegation.
No attempt has been made at pre
tentious decoration of the church edi
fice for the convention, but there are
some pertinent posters hung on the
gallery in the church. One reads,
"Prohibition saves Kansas $6,000,000
in liquor bills each year $3 for every
person in the state." Another says.
"National revenues from the sale of
intoxicants average in the United
States $200 per capita in Kansas, 20
cents."
Regret was expressed by several
delegates at the fact that Mrs. Rachel
B. Armstrong, the state superintend
ent of the railroad department of the
organization, will not be present at
the convention. She is confined to
her home in Kansas City, Kas., with
an illness.
The official badges for the dele
gates were a surprise as well as a fine
compliment to Miss Olive P. Bray,
treasurer of the organization- Miss
Bray makes her home in Topeka.
The badges consist of a white ribbon
on which is printed "K. W. C. T. U.,
Topeka, l'905," and suspended from
the ribbon is a button photograph of
Miss Bray. ,
11NE FALL WEATHER.
That Describes Conditions in Topeka
Today.
The weather department has issued
a very fair brand of weather today,
although it does seem a little out of
season when compared with the cool
nights and the frost that is expected
almost any time. The minimum for
today is 61 and the maximum for yes
terday came near getting into the mid
summer class, as the thermometer
registered 81 for a couple of hours.
The hourly temperatures for today
were :
7 o'clock 62
8 o'clock 65
9 o'clock "70
10 o'clock 74
11
12
1
o'clock 79
o'clock 79
o'clock 82
o'clock 83
Wind from south, five miles an hour,
at 2 p. m.
DR. CHAPMAN TO SPEAK
Will Be Principal Orator at Y. M.
C. A. Corner Stone Ceremony.
Secretary George Lerrigo of the
Topeka Y. M. C. A. is preparing the
programme for the laying of the cor
ner stone for the new Y. M. C. A.
building, which is to take place on
next Saturday afternoon at 4 4'clock.
After Dr. C. V. Ostrom, pe of the
visiting evangelists, delivers the Invo
cation, a male choir of this city will
sing. Judge Selden P. Spencer, of St.
Louis, and C. S. Ward, of Chicago,
international secretary of the Y. M. C.
A., will both make short talks. Fred
Butler, with the evangelists working
here now, will sing a solo, after which
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman will deliver
the address.
Governor Hoch will set the stone
and spread the first mortar. He will
lay a corner stone at Hays City on Fri
day, but thinks that he will be in To
peka all right by Saturday afternoon.
A copper box will be placed under
the stone. Its contents will be a cur
rent number of Association Men, cur
rent numbers of Topeka daily news
papers, a history of the local associa
tion, a list of the subscribers to the
new building, and a list of the mem
bers of the Topeka Y. M. C. A.
SHAWNEE LEADS.
Has More Registered Pharmacists
Than Any County in State.
W. E. Sheriff, secretary of the Kan
sas state board of pharmacy, today
submitted to Governor Hoch his an
nual report. The report shows the
proceedings of the board during the
past year, and gives an alphabetical
list of all registered pharmacists in the
state.
Shawnee county heads the list with
112 pharmacists. Sedgwick county
has 68 and Wyandotte county 64.
SAYS ITS ABSURD.
Cudahy Issues Signed Statement K'.
garding Pat Crowe's Confession.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4. Edward A. Cud
ahy today gave to the Associated Press
a signed statement touching the confer
sion said to have been made by Pat
Crowe in which he says:
"As to the alleged statement of Crowe
that my son was a party to the plot,
it is so absurd, particularly in the light
of his previous statements that I can
hardly believe that he made it. It cer
taily is untrue.
What Did Luck Do for Them?
When we consider the few who owe
fortune or position to accident or
"luck." in comparison with the masses
who have to fight every inch of the
way to their own loaves, what are
they, in reality, but the exceptions to
the rule that character, merit not
fate, or "luck," or any other bogy of
the imagination, control the destinies
of men? The only luck that plays
any great part in a man's life is that
which inheres in a stout heart, a will
ing hand, and an alert brain.
What has chance ever done in the
world? Has it invented a telegraph or
telephone? Has it laid an ocean
cable? Has it built steamships, or
established universities, asylums, or
hospitals? Has it tunneled mountains,
built bridges, or brought miracles out
of the soil ?
What did "luck" have to do with
making the career of Washington, f
Lincoln, of Daniel Webster, of Henry
Clay, of Grant, of Garfield, or of Elihu
Root? Did it help Edison or Marconi
with their inventions? Did it have
anything to do with the making of the
fortunes of our great merchant
princes? Do such men as John Wan
amaker. Robert Ogden, or Marshall
Field owe their success to luck?
I have never known a man to
amount to much until he cut out of his
vocabulary such words as "good luck"
and "bad luck," and from his life
maxims all the "I can't" words and
the 1 can't" philosophy. There is no
word in the English language more
misued and abused than "luck." More
people have excused themselves for
poor work and mean, stingy, poverty
stricken careers by saying "luck was
against them" than by any other ex
cuse. That door ahead of you, young man.
is probably closed because you have
closed it. closed it by lack of train
ing; by a lack of ambition, energy, and
push. While, perhaps, you have been
waiting for "luck" to open it. a
pluckier, grittier fellow has stepped
in ahead of you and opened it him
self. Orison Swett Marden in Success
Magazine.
I'nforttmate.
Bishop McCabe relates the following
story: "Once upon a time I was in a
railway accident. It was one of the
only two I have ever experienced, and
I have traveled more than 700.000
miles on trains and steamers, three
times as far as from here to the moon.
A broken wheel threw the train off the
track. The car I was in was shattered
very much, and it was necessary to
change cars. A noble looking English
lady with her husband was wailling
near me. She was scolding him well
for starting on their journey on Fri
day. 'I told you James.' she said
'something would happen if we should
start on Friday.' Madam.' said I. 'do
you know that Columbus set sail to
discover America on Friday?' She
looked at me with indignation, and
said: 'Sir. in my opinion it is a great
pity that America was ever discovered
at all." "
FOR BLACKMAIL,
Three-fourths of the Bills on
Insurance Legislation
Are Introduced With That End
in View Says McCall.
HEAD OF If. Y. LIFE
Again Appears Before the Legis
lative Committee.
He Will Pay No Attention to
Action of Nevada.
New York, Oct. 4. John A. McCall,
president of the New York Life Insur
ance company, testifying before the
legislative investigating committee to
day in a statement on the general leg
islative experience of his company,
said that three-quarters of the bills on
insurance legislation introduced in the
various states were backmailing bills.
Mr. McCall said before the insurance
inquiry began today that the company
had received- a telegram from Samuel
Davis, the superintendent of insurance
of Nevada, saying that he proposed to
consult the attorney general of state
with a view to a possible revocation of
the New York Life company's license
to do business in Nevada. "He would
act," said Mr. McCall, "unless certain
gentlemen did certain things that
would require a considerable amount
of resignation on their part. I don't
think they will do it and Mr. Davis will
find things are not altogether his way."
John C. McCall, secretary of the
company, stated there were only 45,000
people in the entire state and that
1,100 of them were policyholders. The
company had never thought it worth
while to have a branch office in Ne
vada, but all the business was trans
acted from California and Utah.
McCall on the Stand.
For the first time since the investiga
tion began, James McKeen, associated
with Mr. Hughes as counsel for the
committee, conducted the examination.
Mr. McKeen, who has been studying
the technical end of the life insurance
business, opened by outlining to Mr.
McCall the power and scope of the
committee and said its report to the
legislature will in no way be limited by
the testimony taken at the sessions.
Mr. McCall in answer to questions
by Mr. McKeen, then described in de
tail the system used in making reports
to state insurance departments and
also explained the mortality tables fol
lowed by the New York Life Insurance
company.
Mr. McCall was questioned as to
surrender values under the Massa
chusetts laws and also as to nonfor
feiture laws. He said the first non
forfeiture law was known as the law
of 1861 and was the result of a general
demand that a policyholder should be
remunerated tor premiums, paid if the
policy was surrendered before Its ex
piration. Mr. McCall said a company surplus
is earned by a less mortality than that
assumed to be probable and also by se
curing a rate of interest on money and
investments better than that counted
upon in the actuaries' tables. Asked
as to the difference between government
supervision in England and state super
vision in New York, Mr. McCall said
there was practically no government
supervision in England. The only thing
of this nature, he said, was the filing
of a statement by the insurance com
panies with the board.
Goes Into History.
Mr. McCall then went into a history
of life insurance in this state, telling of
the great number of companies started
from 1875 to 1880 and of the failure of
the most of them through extravagance
and competition.
Mr.McCall said that the increasing
compensation to agents was a tempta
tion for agents to rebate, but Mr. Mc
Call said under the New York license
system the agents contracted not to do
eo and forfeited benefits of that system
if they violated their agreements. He
then went into a detailed statement of
general legislation, saying:
"With the beginning of every year, I
dare say, it is the feeling of every ex
ecutive officer I know it is of myself
that for the ensuing five or six months
of the year we shall be badgered and
harassed to death in every state In the
union by introduction of bad bills of
every kind. Sometimes men of honor
feel they have a right to amend a law
and their motives are all right, but
mainly the general insurance legislation
of this country emanates from people
who are desirous of striking at insur
ance companies. I believe that three out
of four of the insurance bills introduced
in the United States are blackmailing
bills. The management of these com
panies really tremble in the beginning
of the year as to what they have to en
counter duriae the first six months of
the year.
"It is a condition which I think your
committee can do much to prevent if it
will but pass a law similar to theMassa
chusetts law which has been very ef
fective I think that every bill intro
duced shall be lodged or reported in the
office of the secretary of state."
During the testimony in answer to a
ouestion by Mr. McKeen President Mo-
Call denied that the New York Life In
surance company discriminated against
American soldiers in the Spanish war.
It was alleged recently that the New
York Life Insurance company at the
outbreak of the war made more liberal
terms with Spanish policy holders who
might serve as soldiers than it did with
Americans in similar circumstances.
Mr. McCall said that the New York
law of 1899 did not wholly prevent re-
bating but it had done much good and
mat me iew iurtt iiie xnsurauce
company had done as much as possible
to make the law effective. He had dis
charged many, agents for rebating.
Every Fund Has a Class.
After explaining the tontine and de
ferred dividend plans of insurance, Mr.
McCall said:
"Every fund o the New York Life
Insurance company has a class. There
is no fund which may be expended for
the motives of its officers. There is
no reserve or surplus that does not
come under the provisions of the laws
c New York."
Mr. McCall was asked if he agreed
with Elias Wright. Sponsor for the
Massachusetts forfeiture law of 1861.
that a life insurance company's reserve
should be the absolute property of the
policyholders. The witness replied that
he did not; he thought Mr. Wright's
view an extreme one. His own view,
Mr. McCall said, was that a charge
against the reserve on a surrendered
policy was legitimate. The policyhold
er who surrenders a policy, breaks a
contract, said Mr. McCall, and it was
only just that a charge be made
against his reserve toward the exaense
the company would have in writing a
new policy.
In reply to a question Mr. McCall
said that the New York Lite Insurance
company did not make" a reduction in
favor of German subjects In order to
keep Its hold on German business.
Lawyer McKeen said to him:
"It has been alleged that ere was
a discrimination in favor of Spanish
soldiers against American soldiers dur
ing the late war.."
"I can answer that by saying that
the New York Life did not issue a
policy to a single Spanish soldier dur
ing the war."
Mr. McCall said the New York Life
Insurance company began to make
loans to its own policyholders in 1892.
"You know it is against the law for
companies to make loans against their
own policies?" asked Mr. McKeen.
"I never heard that before," replied
Mr. McCall.
Senator Tulley asked, how general
this practice is among the companies.
Mr. McCall said: "We have been
forced into it lately and there is really
no difference between loans upon poli
cies and surrender values except that
in the latter case the policy does not
continue in force."
Weeks Follows McCall.
Rufus Welles Weeks, actuary and
second vice president of the New York
Life Insurance company, succeeded
McCall as a witness. After explaining
much in detail of tables and technical
management, Mr. McKeen brought out
that the company paid agents more for
deferred dividend policies which are
easier to write, according to the wit
ness than they paid for writing the an
nual dividend policy. After much
questioning by Senator Armstrong,
witness said this was because the de
ferred dividend policy was more to he
desired by the company because it fur
nished a fund to carry on new busi
ness. Mr. McKeen asked him about the
declaration made by the New York
Life Insurance company in its return
to the Prussian government which
showed the dividend on the deferred
dividend policies, and asked an ex
planation of greatly increased pay
ments in the fiscal year of the tontine.
Mr. Weeks said there was very lit
tle connection between the final allot
ment and the interim allotment. The
share of the surplus each policy had
earned was not added till the end of
the period.
"The interim dividends are simply
added to satisfy the Prussian govern
ment?" "Yes," said Mr. Weeks.
BIG TAX WARRANT.
One for $15,387 Issued Against Illinois
Life.
County Treasurer Bowen has placed
a tax warrant in the hands of Sheriff
Lucas against the securitiles held by
the state for the Illinois Life Insurance
company for $15,387.58, this being the
amount of taxes due for 1904. Last
week the federal court sustained Coun
ty Clerk Newman in his contention
that the property should be placed on
the tax rolls of the county. The de
cision of Judge Pollock did not enter
into the merits of the case, but merely
sustained the demurrer which had
been entered by the attorneys for the
county.
The Illinois Life Insurance company
has on deposit with the state as an
earnest that it will pay all of its losses
$500,000 worth of securities, and it is
for taxes on these securities that the
tax warrant has been issued. , As soon
as Sheriff Lucas attempts to levy on
these securities the attorneys for the
insurance company will enjoin him
from acting and in this way the case
will set into the court and the merits
of the case passed upon. County Clerk
Newman has a number of similar cases
which he will bring in case that his
course is sustained in this one.
This tax warrant is the largest that
has ever found its way into the hands
of the sheriff of this county.
likFart store.
District Court Room Used for Display
Purposes.
The district court room looks like d
small edition of an ancient art gal
lery today. The cause of this is a suit
filed by James D. Sullivan, the picture
man against G. A. Miller, the proprie
tor of the building in which the pic
ture shop is located. From the evi
dence in the case it seems that there
was a leak in the roof and that dur
ing the rainy season that enough
moisture seeped through to damage
the stock.
The court room is strewn with pic
ture frames and all that goes to make
the completed pictures and as tnese
exhibits are all the property of the
plaintiff they are in a more or less
damaged condition. There are
Madonnas that don't look like Ma
donnas at all, fruit pictures that have
lost their flavors and a miscellaneous
collection that all In all looks like
thirty cents. Two hundred dollars
damage is asked for and a jury is
thinking about the matter.
The Russian Peasant's Wage.
The Cossack who figures in Ernest
Poole's remarkable article, "Peasant
Cattle," In the October Everybody's,
treats the subject of peasant labor in
the following: brisk fashion:
"The dirty Russian peasants come
over the steppe in the spring to do
your plowing and then again for the
harvest. He is very cheap this peas
ant. All he needs is black bread to
eat while he works, and the lash to
keep him from going asleep, and then
when the work is over why the boot
instead of the rule. So home he plods
like a stupid cow in the rain.
"Sometimes these cattle dare to go
to our Cossack judge and complain
when they get no pay. But our judge
is a sly old fellow. He just smiles and
asks them for the written contract. Of
course the peasant has none. 'Then.'
says the judge, 'perhaps in the verbal
contract he promised you only 16 lash
es and 20 kicks for the harvest work.
That's, what he tells me, and I think
he's more honest than you are. So
stop your growling and go on home!'
And if the peasant still stands on one
foot scowling and scratching his head,
then often the clerk jumps up and
cries: "Oh, don't be so selfish! Give
him 50 kicRs!' Then the peasant turns
and gallops like an old lame cow dut
of the village."
Weather Indications.
Chicago, Oct. 4. Forecast for Kansas:
Fair tonight and Thursday; light vari
able winds.
MUCH IN EARNEST
President Still Determined on
ii
uauroaa .Legislation.
Townsend of Michigan Has Been
io see Mim.
NOT TO FIX RATES.
But to Correct Those That Are
Unreasonable.
That Is the Sort of Legislation
That Is Planned.
Washington, Oct. 4. "President
Roosevelt is dead in eaLaJ !!
question of railroad rate legislation and
. juoi as ueiermmed as ever that rail
road regulations shall bt i
--"vnu 1UUIV-
ing to federal supervision of the freight
oituiiuun.
This statement was made today by
Representative Townsend of Michigan
one of the authors of the so-called Esch
Townsend railroad rate bill.
Representative Townsend called today
to talk over the general subject with the
president and of the necessity of making
changes in the measure which he and
Mr. Esch proposed last winter. Mr
Townsend did not have opportunity to
go fully Into the subject with the presi
dent today, but the president requested
him to call again tomorrow.
"I have no authority to represent the
president's views as to railroad rates"
said Mr. Townsend. "but I can say that
he entertains now the same views in
principle as he expressed in his message
last December. The crux of the whole
matter is nnt that , .
should fix rates but that it should have
the oower to substitute a reasonable
rate for one found on investigation to
be unjust. Without such authority the
evils complained of could not be
reached."
"Have any suggestions been made of
changes in the Esch-Townsend meas-
"Soi?e chanses may be made," replied
Mr. Townsend, "but they will be for
the purpose of making the bill clearer
on certain points. It Is intended of
course, to include in the regulations
private cars, refrigerator cars and ter
minal charges. We thought they were
covered by our measure, but in order
that there may be no question about
them they will be included In the bill in
a definite way. One thing is quite cer
tain: There wiU be no narrowing of
the scope of the bill no modification of
the principles involved."
Mr. Townsend said it was expected
that the senate committee on interstate
commerce would prepare and report a
measure to. regulate railroad freight
rates. While he did not have a definite
idea as to the scope of the senate meas
ure he regarded it as doubtful whether
the members of the senate committee
would agree with Senator Foraker that
the proposition involved only a ques
tion of methods.
THEY BUY BONDS.
List of Those Purchased for State
Today.
At a meeting of the state school fund
commissioners today, the board agreed
to ourchase $11,400 worth of 6 per
cent bonds issued by the following
school districts:
No. 66, Graham county $ 400
No. 84. Graham county 600
No. 8, Kingman county 900
No. 27, Stafford county 900
No. 90. Marion county 2,000
No. 15, Marion county 8,000
No. 36, Republic county 1,000
No. 112. Crawford county.... 4,800
Total $11,400
LOCAL MENTION.
Emery Hoke, who secured a judg
ment of $400 for personal injuries
against the American Smelting & Re
fining company of Kansas City, will
have to defend his case in the supreme
court. The company has appealed.
Hoke sued for $2,000.
Judge Nelson Case of Labette coun
ty applied to Governor Hoch yesterday
for a pardon for Marion Asbell, who is
serving a life sentence in the peniten
tiary for the murder of his life. Judge
Case claims that the woman commit
ted suicide, and that Asbell was con
victed because of popular prejudice.
Several Chanute people were in To
peka yesterday to see Governor Hoch
about havins an assistant attorney
general appointed for Neosho county.
Del Travis was in Topeka yesterday,
after visiting Lake View and leaving
1,200 small black bass and croppies
there to restock the lake.
Deputy Bank Commissioner Albright
was in Leavenworth yesterday examin
ing a bank.
John Q. Royce has purchased a
horse and buggy for the use of Mrs.
Royce, who is now able to ride out a
good deal.
The walls of the new state printing
plant are now going up. They are
made of handsome mottled brick from
St. Louis.
A case of diphtheria has been re
ported from the family of Frank Wil
liams, 1020 North Polk street.
Mr. and Mrs. George Patterson, of
219 Grattan street, are the parents of
a boy.
The state board of education is
holding a meeting today at the office
of State Superintendent Dayhoff.
Superintendent Whittemore of the
public schools has arranged for a uni
versity extension lecture course in
English literature for the teachers in
the public schools of the city. The
lectures, six in number, will be de
livered by Prof, J. C. Carter Troop
of the department of English litera
ture of the University of Chicago.
A bunch of eight cases of miron im
portance which have been appealed
from the police court were filed In the
district clerk's office this morning.
Harry A. Swickard of Meridan filed a
request for a marriage license this
morning to marry Anna Hunt of the
same place. A. S. Stanley of Rossville
and Anna Young, both of Rossville,
have asked permission of Probate
Judge Hayden to wed and the good
hearted Judge granted the request.