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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUETJlI 'THTTRSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1903.
AT THEJjAPITAL
The Coming and Going of a Sen
ator.
3Iany Packing Their Grips to
Say Goodby.
S03IE OF THEM STAY.
Haven't Moral Courage to Re
turn to Old Ilome.
Drinking on Passenger Trains
Attracting Attention.
Washington. Dec. 31. Men come to
congress and men go from it, but the
ranks are always full. The coming is
an experiment, the going is often a
tragedy. If the going is involuntary, it
Is the death of ambition, of opportun
ity. But the going means little to those
who remain. It is only when the ex
perience comes home that it is appre
ciated at its full value. The writer has
Jn mind now a little incident of only a
few months ago and which is of no
particular consequence in the great
day's work. It was the occasion of the
departure of Senator Benson, of Kan
sans. who had been superseded by Sen
ator "Charles Curtis.
After the oath-taking by. the latter,
Mr. Benson, instantly a private citizen,
shook hands with a few of his recent
colleagues and retired quietly to the
cloakroom. All alone there, he as
sumed his overcoat and hat, picked up
a small suit case already packed, and
came out into the east door corridor.
Here he stood for a moment and look
ed about him with an appearance of
abject loneliness and loss of hope.
Finally he said to an attendant who
stood "near: "Well, I guess 1 11 go to
the railroad station and start back for
the old home!" And still alone and
unnoticed, he walked out of the door
end down the long front steps. It was
the end. A simple incident, and yet
There are many men tnthe house and
several in the senate whose public ex
istence is now measured by days.
When the curtain rings down at high
noon on March 4 it is back to the law
t.fnoe and the farm to pick up again
the ioose threads which were dropped
long ago. There they will find younger
men who have grown into their places,
and after all the years they will begin
near the foot of the ladder again. The
great, busv world looks on a man who
has been forced out of congress as
something of a failure, and a political
has-been is about as pitiable an object
as the world contains. The city of
"Washington is full of them. There are
pcores of ex-congressmen here who
never had the moral courage to go
back home. They have essayed to pick
up a living at any occupation which of
fered an opening, law practice, lobby
Jne. real estate anything which gave
them a chance to hang on.
John B. Quinn of Paola. Kan., who is
st the Kbbitt savs that the only place'
In Kansas where liquor was drunk pub
llrly is in the railroad passenger trains.
"it is estimated that 95 per cent of
the school children of Kansas never
saw a saloon. or the sale of liquor
made." said Mr. Quinn. "All the joints
in the state have been cleaned out ex
cept in two places, and the attorney
peneral expects to clean these places
out within a very short time. This
onlv leaves drinking and selling on
trains to abolish. Most of the roads
have quit selling liquor on their dining
or buffet cars through Kansas, but
they claim they have no authority to
prevent public "drinking in the trains."
Senator and Mrs. Chester I. Long, of
Kansas, have as their house guests their
niece, .Miss iertrucie v-apiey oi rknii
itv. 'and her brother. Frank Capley,
for" the holidays. Later in the week
the Misses Abraham will be added to
the party. Mrs. Long will give a dance
In honor of her house guests January
1. Senator Long himself is in Kansas
to attend the Saturday Night club ban
quet. Christmas night Senator and Mrs.
Long entertained the members of the
Kansas delegation and their families at
a Christmas tree party, followed by a
dance.
Rev. Ir. Thomas E. Will, former
president of the Manhattan college.
Ka., preached at the People's church
Sunday morning. Dr. Will used for his
theme "The Kingdom of Good on
Karth." He said the People's church
had important work to do which should
not be permitted to halt because their
trusted leader, the Rev. Alexander
Kent, had passed away.
Kansas postmasters appointed: Paul
Ruder, jr.. at Schoenchen; William J
Granger at Netawaka; Henry T. Ash
ford at Elsmore.
J. A. Oilleland of Hutchinson. Kan.,
5s registered at the St. James hotel.
In the hearings held recently be
fore the house committee on military
affairs the members manifested no
little curiosity concerning the cost of
the horsemanship tests to which all
army officers are now subjected as
a demonstration of their physical fit
ness. This equestrian test has been
in vogue long enough to ascertain
something of the expense of the pro
ceeding. It was made known to the
committee that during the past year
the draft upon the mileage for official
travel performed by officers from
their stations to the place where the
rides were held amounted to $10,490.
This, of course, does not take into
This
is the trade
mark which is
on every gen
uine bottle of
Scott's Emulsion
sold in nearly al the
countries of the world.
Nothing equals i' : build
up the weak and wasted
bodies of young and old.
Send thk advertisement, together wRh
name of paper in which it appears, your
addreee and four cents to cover postafle,
and we will send you a "Complete Handy
Atlas of the W orld" a :s :: :
SCOTT & BOWNE. 409 Pearl St-N. Y.
account the loss of time if one may
call the three, four or five days con
sumed in these rides a loss of time.
Travel performed under orders gives
an officer mileage and it appeared that
in most of these military ridea some
of the participants traveled long dis
tances. For instance, a large body
of army officers came to Fort Myer,
Va., from Governors Island, N. Y.,
and others came here from Wyoming.
In editorial comment upon the sub
ject, the Washington Herald said:
"One of the members of the military
committee expressed the view that
these rides could be held at places
adjacent to the stations of the of
fleers taking them; that there was no
need of officers traveling from New
YdVk to Virginia to take a horseback
ride which might be taken nearer
Governors Island. This member, Mr.
Ajithony, of Kansas, did not exag
gerate the situation in the least when
he described the incident as a 'use
less expenditure.' with which view, it
is gratifying to note Congressman
Slayden. also a member of the mill
tary committee, agreed.
"There are periodical inquiries
made by congress concerning the ex
tent and occasion of the drafts upon
the army mileage fund. In other
years certainly there was little or no
methodical disbursement of that
appropriation and little or no attempt
made to regulate the official travel
which required payments for mileage.
The system has been improved in the
last year, but it is capable of further
economical treatment in the direction
suggested by Congressmen Anthony
and Slayden. There would really
seem to be little reason for extended
travel by rail to take the army horse
manship test." "
Postmasters must not solicit the
mailing of matkr at their offices by
persons living or doing business with
in the delivery of another postofhee,
according to a recent order of Post
master General Meyer, amending the
postal laws and regulations. The or
der further says:
AH postmasters at offices of the
fourth class are hereby instructed not
to claim credit for the cancellations
of postage stamps on matter delivered
from other postoffices to their post
offices for mailing, and they will re
port to the department all such cases
coming to their knowledge. viola
tions of this regulation will be re
garded as cause for removal."
It has been alleged from time to
time that certain fourth class post
masters whose compensation is regu
lated by the amount of postage sales
annually have sought to have the
class of" their office raised by soliciting
outside" business, such as is re
ferred to in the order. Many offi
cials have, it is said, profited in this
way. Then, again there are cases in
which patrons of an office do not like
the postmaster personally or political
ly, and satisfy their despite for him
by throwing a great deal of business
to the officials of a neighboring town.
Of freak legislative bills which will
be submitted to the Kansas legislature
when that body convenes, the one
which will enable people to know to
a certainty that a person is dead be
fore they bury him, is of more tnan
passing interest, according to H. D.
White of Kansas City, who is at the
Ebbitt house.
"Senator Cooke, who is going to
submit that measure, .it is said, was
taken for dead one time, and came
near being buried," said Mr. White.
He gave a signal just as they were
screwing the cofhn lid down on mm
and now lives to tell the story. His
bill will not only pro-ide for certain
tests to be made, but will require lov
ing relatives or some dear friend, or a
heartless undertaker, to keep the body
a week or so until it is perfectly ap
parent that life has passed away.
"A bill making it a prison offense
for a man to 'treat' anotner to any
thine whatever while running for of
fice is also to be introduced. The ban
on treating is to commence the mo
ment the man thinks of becoming a
candidate and is to run until after the
polls are closed on election night. The
law is also to apply to tne primary-
campaign for a nomination as well as
the campaign tor election aiterwara.
"Representative Brighton," con
tinued Mr. White, "who is fathering
the bill, says that there are a set of
ward heelers infesting every town who
depend upon candidates exclusively
for their booza and cigars, and he
wants the candidates protected by law
against them."
Ernest S. Miller of Kansas, discuss
ing politics in the Sunflower state, said
that the state is to have a "salt rising"
administration for the next two years;
that that was the official title fastened
onto the incoming administration of
Governor Roscoe W. Stubbs.
"It all came about over Mr. Stubbs'
campaign for salt rising bread," said
Mr. Miller. "In making his canvass
for governor. Mr. Stubbs wanted to be
different from other candidates. He
eliminated political questions from a
portion of his speeches and talked
about salt rising bread. He told how
fond he was of it, and how he longed
for salt rising break like his mother
used to make. Then he would branch
out and tell how people should rear
children, and always wind up by say
ing that the girls should be taught
how to make salt rising bread.
"The new governor says the staff of
life at the executive mansion for the
next two years will be salt rising
bread. No other kind will be permit
ted on the premises. It Is to be home
made, and Miss Lenora Stubbs, his 15-year-old
daughter, is to bake it."
Colonel Benjamin F. Chase of Kins
ley, Kan., has been elected a member
of the executive committee of William
F. Barry garrison of the Army and
Xavy union of this city. Colonel
Chase is a clerk in the pension office.
Mrs. Belle C. Harris of Kmporla has
been elected vice president for Kansas
of the American Woman's Press as
sociation, an organization comprised
entirely of the Relief Corps of the
Grand Army.
Charles Hoff has been appointed
postmaster at Turkville, Ellis county,
Kan., to succeed A. L. Hobbs, resign
ed. Mae M. Elliott was also named
for the office at Goddard, Sedgwick
county, in the place of S. E. Barney,
resigned.
Maywood postoffice. Wyandotte
county, Kan., will be discontinued on
January 15, to be superseded by rural
free delivery.
Portland Bonds Sell High.
. Portland, Ore., Dec. 31. The city
council has sold to a New York firm
j $500,000 four per cent twenty-five year
price, class considered, is tne highest
price'paid for any Pacific coast munici
pal securities in recent years, is a frac
tion higher than the last sales of four
per cent bonds by Boston and Philadel
phia and compares well with the price
paid for any eastern municipal bonds.
He Struck Anthony Comstock.
Xew York, Dee. 31. Anthony Com
stock. the vice crusader, was nearly
knocked down in the street as he was
superintending the unloading of a
quantity of pamphlets that he had
seized earlier in the day. The blow
was delivered by an angry man whom
Mr. Comstock jostled. It landed
squarely on Mr. Comstock's jaw.
OUSTER CASE WEAK.
Trickett-s Suit Age lust Chief of Police
Bonden Likely to Fail. .
Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 31. The tak
ing of testimony in the ouster proceed
ings against Chief of Police D. E. Bow.
den and nine other members of the
Kansas City, Kan., police department
has been practically completed. J. W.
Parker, the special commissioner ap
pointed by the supreme court to take
the testimony in the case, said that
practically all of the evidence was in.
The case was continued until Tuesday
morning, when it is understood that
small matters of detail will be com
pleted and the case submitted to the
referee.
The prevailing opinion in Kansas
City, Kan., seems to be that the state
has been unable to establish a strong
case against the defendants. Since the
first two days of the hearing, when the
court ruled that certain testimony re
lating to the disposal of liquor cases
was irrelevant, the case has dragged
and no testimony of a damaging char
acter has been introduced. The state
has confined most of its efforts to an
attempt to show that the defendants
must have had knowledge of violations
of the prohibitory law, owing to the
fact that raids were made by the po
lice and the cases were disposed ot in
the police court.
AssuminE- from these facts that the
defendants had personal knowledge of
such violations, the assistant attorney
general, Mr. Trickett, charges them
with having violated the law by failing
to report such knowledge either to the
county attorney or to the assistant at
torney general. The records of the po
lice court, showing about thirty cases
designated as "liquor cases," have been
introduced in evidence by tne state.
Mr. Trickett closed the case for the
state a few days ago and the past two
or three days have been used by the
defense.
Cantain Snyder told of various rains
made by the police, and testified that
under the "bootlegging system" of sell
ing liquor which has prevailed in Kan
sas City, Kan., since tne joints vcic
closed, he had never considered it to
he the. rlntv of members of the police
department to report such cases to the
county attorney or to the assistant at
torney general.
I simply considered tnese cases
too trivial a cnaracter, saia me
ness. "Where we received complaints
that liquor was being sold we raided
v.o niura TTsiiallv it was some little
,i i; visits or pvpn a weed patch
T snnnosed when we put an end to it
ttit iviopo w 'A ; rirtthinEr left to report.
Poinh Kplsnn citv attorney, lesnneu
that cases appealed from the police
court had been dismissed because there
was no evidence which would warrant
a conviction.
tv, ttsmn nf tho assistant attornev
general to attack the credibility of the
witnesses bv showing their previous
occupation failed when Judge Parker
held that such testimony "as mw
petent.
VOTES ENOUGH.
To Pass Postal Savings Bank BUI in
Senate
Wfiahinsrton. Dec. 31. "We have the
votes to pass the postal savings bank
i.;n if -a.-f nan tret a roll call," says
Senator Carter of Montana, who has
th measure in charge. "A number of
nitnr have sriven notice, however,
that they desire to discuss the bill and
will require some days to prepare their
speeches. When congress assembles
after the holiday recess two calendar
,ntv, containing onlv fifty legisla
tive days, will remain of the present
session, during which time an tne
nnnrnnriatlon bills must be
nnssed. I am not prepared to speak
fr- tv.o nthpr legislative body. I am
told that the house committee on post
offices and postroads may want to hold
hearings before the bill is taken up in
the house for discussion."
CELKBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weaver of Cot
tonwood Falls 38 Years in Kansas.
Cottonwood Falls. Kan.. Dec. 31.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weaver of this
city celebrated their golden wedding
Wednesday. Mr. Weaver is 74 years
old and Mrs. Weaver 73. They were
married in Mercer county. Pa., and
lived there some years. They moved
to Cedar Point, Kan., thirty-eight
years ago. They moved from there to
western Kansas in 1885. Mr. Weaver
was register of deeds of Greeley
county one term. They moved to
Cottonwood Falls in 189 8. Mr.
Weaver is at present justice of the
peace, having served several terms.
About one hundred persona called to
see them bringing with them J100 in
gold.
A COURT MARTIAL CALLED.
Understood That a Second Lieutenant
Is to Be Tried at Leavenworth.
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 31.
An order was received here for the
assembling of a court-martial Mon
day, January 4, for the trial of an of
ficer. All the thirteen orncers ue
tailed for the court are in station here
and nine of them are below the rank
of captain. Major Clement A. F.
Flagler, engineer corps, ia president
and First Lieutenant Robert P.
Howell, jr., engineer corps, is Judge
advocate.
It is understood that Second Lieu
tenant Melvin G. Ferris, Thirteenth
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infantry, is to be tried. He was in
command of a company recently and
was relieved by the post commander
on complaint of some of the soldiers
of the organization; It is said that
he permitted a non-commissioned of
ficer to abuse and strike the new men
in the company. One of the allega
tions is that he allowed non-commis
sioned officers to slap recruits in the
face and that there was a bad state
of discipline in the company. Lieu
tenant Ferris was commissioned in
June, 1907.
MAY CALL RIPLEY.
Santa Fe President Likely to Testify
In Lumber Inquiry.
Chicago, Dec. 31. President E. P.
Ripley of the Santa Fe. says the Inter
Ocean, today, will probably be called
at a witness by the Interstate Com
merce commission in the inquiry now
being made by that body into the lum
ber industry of the southwest.
It has been shown during the in
vestigation that Mr. Ripley, as presi
dent of the Southwestern Land com
pany, was interested in the lumber
situation in the southwest and that his
road has built ISO miles of trackage
in order to reach a mill owned by the
Industrial Lumber company, which
had bought 65.000 acres from Mr.
Ripley's land company.
WANTED COSTS ADDED.
Bucks Stove Co. Asks That Labor
Leaders' Sentence Be Amended.
Washington, Dec. . 31. Seeking to
have the court compel Samuel Gom
pers, Frank Morrison and John Miteh
ell. labor officials, to pay court costs
amounting to nearly J1.000 incurred in
the famous contempt case, J. J. Darl
ington of counsel for the Bucks Stove
& Range company, upon whose petition
the labor men were originally cited, has
filed a motion in the supreme court of
the District of Columbia asking that
Justice Wright's decree sentencing
Gompers, Morrison arvi Mitchell to
prison, be so amended as to affix costs
on the respondents.
ROOSEVELT HIKES OUT.
Goes Across the Potomac for a Day In
the Country.
Washington, Dec. 31. President
Roosevelt today is enjoying his only
rest of the holiday season at the coun
try estate of Surgeon General Rixey of
the navy, near Cherrydale, Va., Just
across the Potomac river. He left the
White House at an early hour today
and behind a speedy span of bays was
driven to the Rixey home, where, re
moved from cares of state, he is pass
ing the entire day rusticating in the
manner of a private citizen. The presi
dent probably will spend an hour or so
in rifle practice and then after luncheon
will go for a long tramp through the
woods and later on for a long ride upon
one of his favorite horses.
EGGS FULL OF ACID.
Hurled at
Nonunion . Driver
'J.'njJcab..
of
New York. Dec,31. Eggs filled with
carbolic acid were hurled at a taxicab
last night driven "t)y James McGregor.
a nonunion driver employed by the New
York Taxicab company. McGrj-gor suc
cessfully dodged the- missiles, but sev
eral struck his cab. The matter was
reported to the police but the guilty
persons had not ' been arrested today.
Marks or the acid were visible on the
vehicle. The hurling of the egg shells
filled with acid is believed by the po
lice to have been' Inspired by the now
waning strike of chauffeurs and cab
drivers.
STANLEY NOT THE MAN.
Didn't Make Motion to Adopt Report
of Educational Commission.
To the Editor of the State Journal.
In the last evening's Stat Journal on
page 5 you published an article with
the caption, "Exploded' a Bomb. Mrs
Burton makes charges in teachers' as
sociation. The article referred to re
cites, incorrectly, the events at the
meeting during the time the report of
the state educational commission was
under consideration, and states that the
chair called Mrs. Burton down but the
convention would not stand for it, when
as a matter of fact the chair did not
call her down but entertained a motion
while she was on the floor to extend
to her twice the time accorded to any
one else in the discussion, which motion
was adopted, and the time given Mrs.
Burton. Your article further states that
after Mrs. Burton had spoken another
three minutes and was about to make
her charges, the chair called her down
for good. "Tben as quick as a flash Mr.
A. J. Stanley, a member of the com
mission, rose and moved that the adop
tion of the report as a whole be made.
His motion was taken up by a chorus
of male voices and the helpless lady
teachers sat back in their chairs while
the report of the educational commis
sion was carried through."
During the time this report of the
commission was being considered I did
not ask for nor secure recognition by
the chair nor did any other member
of the commission. The question came
up on motion of Dr. L. H. Murlinr as
I remember, which was offered as a
substitute to an amended motion, and
not less than 90 per cent of the body
of the convention "voted for approval of
the report. These are the facts in the
case and I trust you can give the space
to correct the report of yesterday.
ARTHUR J. STANLEY.
TO ARREST WOMEN GAMBLERS.
Chicago Law and Order League Work
ing Up Spotter Evidence.
Chicago, Dec. 31. Detectives of the
Law and Order league were busy last
night collecting evidence of gambling
on the part of women in various halls
throughout the city. The entrance of
the detectives turned the assemblages
into mass meetings to denounce the
socalled "spotters."
The women in their indignation gave
the detectives valuable information
concerning other games. They urged
the detectives to visit a certain West
side game, promising them that the
woman who conducted it would throw
them down the stairway.
"This gambling among women of all
classes of society." said Arthur Bur
rage Farwell of the league, "has taken
such a strong hold upon them that
they neglect their homes and families.
Some of them play both afternoon and
evening, and we shall be compelled to
arrest some of them before they will
stop."
Skate the old year but. New Year
in, at the Rink tonight. Ladies free.
The city council will hold the first
regular session of -the year 1909 Mon
day evening. ------
If it is not the Chautauqua Tours it
is not the best way to see Europe.
Write the Chautauqua Tours, Apple
ton. Wisconsin.
County Coroner Dr. H. H. Keith has
moved his office to the rooms recently '
occupied, by the late Dr. J. T. Berry
at 724 Kansas avenue. i
It seems to be a settled fact that I
Professor L. L. Dyche will not accom- :
pany President Roosevelt into the
wilds of Africa.
The cold wave failed to arrive last
night, but the weather man enter
tains no hope that the wave has yet
been sidetracked.
Sheriff John M. Wilkerson left for
Doniphan county Wednesday after
noon to attend the funeral of his
brother-in-law, W. D. Noble, of High
land. W. F. Hill, advance agent for the
"Burgomaster" was in Topeka
Wednesday making arrangements for
the production of this play in Topeka
next Monday night. ,
The claims and accounts committee
ot the city council will hold a meeting
rvew i ear s aiternoon at 4 o clock for
the purpose of disposing of all old
business now before the committee.
Councilman C. H. Kutz of the Fifth
ward announces that he wishes to
trade his place in the city council for
the position of city treasurer and is
training for a race for the latter place.
The University of Kansas Is well
represented at the state teachers'
meeting which is in session in Topeka
this week, between fifty and sixty
memDers or the racuity Being in the
city.
A meeting of the streets and walks
committee of the city council will be
held Saturday afternoon at 2 o clock
when the pavement question for the
year 1909 will receive a thorough
overhauling.
At midnight tonight the resolution
committee of the boozerine and tank
clubs will meet in secret session and
pass on the applications for member
ship to the Percy White Fudge club
and the Ex-Tank association.
Dr. Winfield Scott Hall, professor o
physiology at the Northwestern uni
versity, will deliver an address at the
theater meeting which will be given
by the Central Y. M. C. A. Sunday
evening at the Majestic theater.
"There is one fact that I would like
to dwell upon," said a member of the
Topeka. lodge of Elks, "and that
that the new steward looks the part.
his weight being somewhere between
two and three hundred pounds.
A reporter for the Topeka State
Journal wrote "The old grads of
Baker university will hold a banquet
and reunion at Mills tea room today.
The compositor, proof reader or
some one else made him say "The old
girls, etc."
Secretary A. B. Poole of the Topeka
Commercial club has addressed a let
ter to the president of every commer
cial club in the state asking the co
operation of the commercial bodies in
securing an -appropriation for the state
fair proposition.
A number of the visiting teachers
have taken advantage of their presence
in the city to visit the state insane
asvlum. Friday is visitors' day at the
institution and many more are plan
ning for a tour of inspection at a time
when the buildings are open to the
general public.
Rev. O. .T, Deever of the United
Brethern church has been elected
secretary of the committee of the lo
cal Ministerial union which has in
charge the Biederwolf evangelistic
meetings, which will be held in the
Auditorium next February.
According to the reports of the To
peka Rebate association, $3,830 was
expended during the two weeks pre-
ceeding Christmas day in rebates to
out of town customers. This covers
the railroad fares of a large part of
the out of town shoppers. When it is
taken into consideration that the re
bates amount to only five per cent of
the actual amount spent, it shows that
in this period at least J76.000 worth
of goods was sold in Topeka to this
class of buyers.
FALL OF FOUR MILLIONS.
Decrease- in Production of Gold for
1807.
Washington, Dec. 31. The United
States produced J90.435.700 worth of
gold, and 137,299,700 worth of-suver
in 1907, according to statements ob
tained from mints, assay offices,
smelting establishments and. the
product of mines. As compared with
the previous year, 1907, showed a de
crease of four million dollars in gold
production and about one million dol
lars decrease in the silver production.
The rank of principal gold producers
is as follows:
Colorado, Alaska, California, Ne
vada, Utah, South Dakota, Montana
and Arizona.
Vermont appeared as a gold pro
ducer for the first time in many years.
Twenty-seven states and territories
participated in the production of sil
ver, the leaders being:
Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho,
Nevada and Arizona.
The geological survey attributes the
decrease in gold and silver production
in 1907 to the financial panic of that
year, which forced many smelting
works, to suspend.
Whales on Mountain Tops.
Long Beach. Cal., Dec. 31. Petrified
remains of huge whales on the high hill
tops overlooking the ocean near San
Pedro is the remarkable find which
Leo G. Haase, a curio collector, and
writer, of Pasadena, has made. Many
heads and bodies have been found.
some nearly complete. Several verte
brae were protruding from the ground.
The whole locality has the appearance
of beiner a fossil bed. Haase accounts
for the presence of the whales at that
high altitude as due to some great sud-
terranean upheaval in pre-nisiunc
times.
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fcQMILE,
While
So, runs a bully little verse that
came to me yesterday from a man
who says he likeo my "gospel of
smiles. "
He wants to know if I wrote the
lines. I didn't, but my hat is off to
whoever did, for "them's my senti
ments." I believe in smiles Just as I be
Hevein the goodness of nature and
the kindness of the human heart
when it's allowed to act as it really
wants to.
I believe in smiles as medicine.
As a tonic for that general-rundown
feeling, I think they have all
other medicines beat a mile or so.
As. a .liniment for soul sprains
and brain bruises, they cannot be
equaled.
Internally or externally, they are
more valuable than any combina
tion of chemicals yet put up, ac
cording to my way of thinking.
Men are just now beginning to
learn how to doctor themselves
with smiles and kind thoughts and
all such medicines.
We are just coming to a realiza
tion of the big fact that our bodily
ills are in a large measure mental
ilia. Christian Science has helped
some, but that finest of all things.
Commonsense, is doing more than
anything else to lead us into the
sane path.
The "Optimist"' in
Rai'lroaJ Fare Refunded, ia Part
r
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Miss Kathryn Ostennan, Who Will
AMUSEMENTS.
At tho Grand.
A Good Woman will Win. Lincoln
Carter's latest success, will be at the
Grand tonight.
"Actresses should marry. So should
all other women. There. I am separat-
ng women of the stage into a class by
themselves, as different from other wo
men, Just the thing I object to having
other people do. But in this case the
separation comes easily. It has been
said for so. many years that the stage
women should not marry because it
hurts business that I speak of her in
particular."
This is the emphatic statement made
by Kathryn Osterman in an interview
on marriage. Continuing Miss Oster
man said:
"Home is the principal thing. We all
reed homes. They are a part of our
lives which we cannot well do without.
And although the actress may have a
home without a husband she is likelier
to possess both than one.
I believe there is no woman on earth
and no class of women that appreciate
home and husband more than an ac
tress. Her life is necessarily one of too
much hotel, too much travel and too
much artificiality. She needs the influ
ence of the home. The actress who is
married and has a home looks upon the
world - with more charitable and loving
-es." '''.'
Miss Osterman comes to the Grand
New Year's matinee and night.
The greatest care possible has been
exercised in forming this season's pre
senting company for the Pixley & Lud
ers' musical comedy success, "The
Burgomaster," in the person of Harry
Hermsen. also the well known prima
donna, Ruth White, who will again be
seen in her original creation of Willie
Van Asterbilt. Mr. Hermsen and Miss
White have appeared here in many
characters, but never to better advan
tage or more favorable auspices, than
in "The Burgomaster." Messrs Pixley
Sc. Luder certainly had these artists in
mind when they wrote this' musical
masterpiece. The Burgomaster comes to
the Grand Monday. . .
At the Majestic.
Another packed house greeted the
"Boston Ideals", last night at the Ma
jestlc.As predicted, the "Chimes of Nor
mandy" is proving a strong drawing
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New Years
a smile!
you smile
Another smiles,
And soon there's miles
And miles
Of smiles,
And life's worth while
If you but smile!"
Doctors everywhere are falling in
line. The reincarnation of the
bread pill and the gradual substitu
tion of sunshine and fresh air for
large and bitter doses are encour
aging signs of the times.
"Keep cheerful and you will
probably keep well," said a well
known physician to me not long
ago. And as for myself. I find that
when I allow my temper to get a
bit the best of me as sometimes
happens or let unpleasant
thoughts usurp my mental machin
ery. I have to look at my tongue
and consult the "Family Friend."
After all, there's just one family
friend, and that is SUNSHINE!
Sunshine, whether from above or
from within the being, is the first
friend of every family. If you have
plenty of sunshine from the heart
in your homes, your doctor's bills
will begin to shrink, and rosy
cheeks and thoughts will predom
inate. And if some clever surgeon could
find a way to remove the grouch as
easily as the appendix is taken out
these days, he could charge $1,000
a crack and still be able to adver
tise his services as a great bargain.
It's the grouch that really makes
undesirable citizens, not T. R., as it
is popularly supposed!
the Philadelphia North American.
or Whole, to Ont-of-TWn Bi
rosby Bros. Co.
Be at the Grand New l'chr's Day.
card. The members of the cast seem to
fit exactly the parts assigned them and
all receive the approval of the audience
Judging from the liberal applause. The
chorus has plenty to do and gives each
number with a , dash that is a pleasu"- -to
witness, besides singing well. Man,
requests are coming iru for favorite op
eras, the choice for next week is the
romantic opera, "Fra Diavolo."
At tlie Novelty.
At the first performance at the Not-,.
elty theater tonight-Don Ford, the es-
cape artist, will attempt to escape from
a pair of Spanish handcuffs presented
by O. S. Taylor.' which he found in
th old Bilibid prison near Manilla, P.
I. If Mr. Ford fails t.. escape from the
handcuffs he will forfeit $50 to soni
charitable institution of tin- city. Th.
handcuffs are in the window of F.M Cur
tis' drug store on Kansas avenue, near
Eighth.
Women May Vote at Primaries.
Coffeyville. Kan., Dec. 31. Attorney
General Jackson has, upon the request
from the city clerk of this city, ren
dered a decision to the effect that wo
men are entitled to vote at primary
elections for city officers and also sig
petitions. City Attorney Snelling ha
ruled that women were barred accord
ing to the way in- which the primars
law and general election laws read.
Chicago's First Game April 15.
Chicago, Dec. 31. President Murphy
of the Chicago National league club
says Roger Bresnahan's remodeled St.
Louis Cardinals will be the first team
to face the world's champions In regu
lar combat next spring. The game will
be played on the West Side ball park
Thursday, April 13.
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