The Topeka Daily Herald from Topeka, Kansas • 4

THE TOPJSiA DAILiX HiS liA US DAY, Alt YT U. I'JUT. NO ALIEN BLOOD PANAMA' INDIANS' VEINS time become six feet, Skulls increase in capacity, and. intellectual ability shows remarkable development. THETOPEKA DAILY HERALD BY THE HERALD PUDLISHI.NQ CO sponsible for all the political disturbance which Kansas hag experienced in the last year and it is only good sense now to get done with it.

Any long drawn out dead-lock, for the benefit of some jockeying candidate with a scattering vote would be manifestly unfair to the state, and will certa.nly be condemned by the people who have no personal interest at stake. Panama, Jan. 10. When Uncle Sam took over a ten-mile strip of land from the republic of Panama for a canal zone he came within one mile of getting also the San Bias Indians, probably the only unsubdued- tribe of aborigines on the western hemisphere. A bamboo hut to live in, plural wives, many qhildren, the right to NEW, YEAR'S WISH.

Bedecked with jewels, and all four deeds, "May all the paths you ever tread Be like the hollj green. And lighted up with, friendly, rmiles. Like holly's burnished sheen: May all the thoughts you ever have Be like the- mistletoe. Bedecked with jewels, and all your deeds Pure as the Christmas srnow; Tule logs of love burn in your heart With rosy warmth and cheer. And care veil may she come at most, Like Christmas, once year." SONNET FOR THE YEAR.

The dew drops jn themselves no brilliance hold. As, trembling, they bedeck the field at morn. from people not of their The cacique of Sarsadi rules over all. The San Bias has no belief in the pearly gates of Christianity's hereafter, but he does believe that if he shall do well his part here below, eternal rest shall be his reward hereafter, and that he shall be damned in proportion as he shall have sinned. The black sins are: 1.

Marriage with one not of his own race. XJc 1 I IV V4. A' rc 1 balky suitor to at last leap over the matrimonial hurdle. Generally- speaking, however, there are certain broad tactics that all wo-women employ. The first of these is to surround the man with the proper environment.

Love, like certain diseases, is beot treated when the patient can be isolated. Portieres are a discourager of courtship. Flats are almost prohibitive of love-making, and sociable parents are a positive bar to matrimony. No man feels inclined to make love with the probability of a little brother eaves-dropping behind the curtain No man is encouraged to get sentimental when he knows the whole family are gathered together in the next room speculating about his intention. No man has the nerve to hold his inamorata's hand under the noses of her parents.

It takes the solitude of two. It takes a certainty from interruption. It takes an unwavering confidence that there is no espionage to give a man enough courage to propose, and unless" a girl has sufficient sense to provide these stage accessories she deserves to be an old maid. Music that hath charms to soothe the savage breast hath also power to make a man propose. There are few better wavs of bringing a the jumping-off place than to warble sweetly sentimental duets with him, for it is the beauty of music that it can voice longings in a perfectly proper manner that one would be sent to Coventry for if said out in plain words without any tra-las.

Many a man who started out to carol "I Cannot Live Without Thee," or "Oh, Promise Me," has found himself saying things that let him in for a breach of promise suit before he got through. New York Journal. A Delegation of San Bias Indians Photosraphed at Colon in Civilized Dress. let the sun but kiss them, and he- hold: A myriad radiant hues of light are born. The sparkle of tha costly gem is gained.

With grind and polish of the workman's care. Till in ita perfect beauty it Is framed, hit for a monarch in his crown to wear. And thus, tlrough of ten dull and drear our day. Our sky ne'er pierced by beam of kindly light. We know the clouds will part and o'er our way The blessed sun shine down full clear and bright.

And years" like gems' will glitter in its rays And fill the golden chalice of our days. A. McCallum. THE WONDERER. Upon a mountain height, far from the sea, I found a shell.

And to my listening ear the lone thing Ever a song of ocean seemed to sing. Ever a tale of ocean seemed to tell. How came that shell upon that mountain height? Ah, who can say- Whether there dropped by some too careless hand. Or whether there cast when ocean swept the lajid Ere the eternal had ordained the day? Strange, was it not? Far from, its native deep. One song it sang Sans of the awful mysteries of the tide, bang of the misty sea, profound and wide Ever with echoes of the ocean rang.

And, sheI1 uPn the mountain height Sings of the sea, "i Iever leagues and leagues away or ever, wandering where I may- Sing my home, sing, my home, of thee- Eugene Field. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT OF PROPOSAL. Everybody has heard about men who have lived and died bachelors for no other reason than that they could never face the, to them, fearful ordeal of "popping the question." It is 'a double misfortune when such men love women who, while loving them in return, have not the tact to recognize the psychological moment when it arrives and smooth the way for the bashful lover's confession. Very few men are too bashful to ask for what, they want. Still, there is no denying that a little skill and diplomacy on the part of the woman facilitates matters, and she is a wise virgin who keeps her lamp always trimmed and; burning and turned low during the days of courtship, and who puts herself in an attitude to receive the blessings, as old-fashioned Methodists used to say, when a man showed' signs of coming to the point.

Whether it1 is intentional or not, no mother's daughter of us will ever know, but it Is indisputably true that many a good man makes a most aggravating He calls and calls, but never proposes. He gives every evidence of being in love, but the words that would settle matters stick in his throat. He plays around the hook, but refuses to be landed. It is a trying situation for the woman. She dare not let go.

and she Is afraid to hold on, for the man may mean everything or nothing, and no question is of more vital importance to her than how to bring this tentative love-making to a climax. Probably not one man in a million ever proposed when, and where, and In the way he had planned to do it. Suddenly, at some unexpected time and place, he found himself asking some woman to let him control her, and he wondered as he did it how he came to do it just then, and he never dreamed that the woman could have answered his question if she had wanted to. By what means woman precipitate the psychological moment is a feminine trade secret, so profound and so kept that women even deny that it exists, and no woman has ever yet been found who revealed the exact methods by which she induced a DAVID OVERMYER. It will be with sincere sorrow and regret that all Kansas learns today of the death David Overmyer.

For a quarter of a century, he has been one of the most conspicious figures in the state. A man of strong convictions, and fearless in expressing them, he aroused many public and political antagonisms, but never any personal enmities. Men who disagreed with Mr. Overmyer most radically always respected his high personal character and never questioned motives which prompted him. He was a hard and sometimes bitter fighter, but he could take as well as give, and when the war was over cherished no malice nor withheld just amends if he believed he had wronged any one.

Few Kansas men have ever enjoyed a larger following of warm personal friends and admirers than Mr. Over myer. He was most genial and companionable with his friends, a man of fine public spirit and a citizen of the highest type and conscience. His familiar figure and kindly presence will be greatly missed in Topeka. THE MOTHER-IN-LAW STORY VILL EE NO JOKE FOR THAW.

Harry Thaw is more afraid of his mother-in-law's tory in jiis coining trial than of any other testimony that will be offered and he has reason to be. "Nothing on earth can prevent, rae from testifying when I am called upon at the trial of Harry Thaw. I shall certainly tell the truth even if Thaw does happen to be my daughter's husband. And I shall tell all I know, and I know much." Thisy is what Mrs. Charles J.

Hoi-1 man, the mother of Nesbifc Thaw, said in her latest interview. Continuing she said: "It was Harry Thaw's bitter hatred of Stanford White that led him to kill the old friend of his present wife, my old and good friend, and the friend of all cur family," declared Mrs. Hol-man. "Thaw never had any reason to jealous of Mr. White, who treated Evelyn as he would have treated a daughter.

"My daughter expects me to aid the but just wait. By the time my testimony is all in I am afraid Evelyn and Harry will realize that I meant what I said to them some time ago. "I repeat that Mr. White was never anything but a friend, a loyal friend to Evelyn; that he educated both her and her brother, and that he secured good engagements for her; in short, that he treated her like a father. "'Harry Thaw, let me say right here, has Mr.

White to thank that I did not take thorough satisfaction myself for his treatment of both Evelyn anj myself before he was married to her. I wnted to have him arrested long ago, before he married my daughter, but I followed Mr. White's advice and didn't, In order to escape the notoriety it would have caused. I have seme letters written to me from Mr. White.

They will show that Thaw never had any intention of marrying Evelyn, and only did so when he was forced to. "Harry Thaw was compelled to marry Evelyn; that's just what it amounted to. And these letters will show what the pressure was that was brought to hear upon him. These letters will be presented at the trial, and they will not show up Thaw In any enviable light. "How I have wished and wished I could tell all there is to tell during all this long, terrible time, since Thaw hilled the best friend I ever had.

But now I will tell it. It is what I have been waiting for. "During all this time I have stood in a false light. What stories have not been printed! Why, it has even been said that I did not protect and guide ray daughter as a mother should have done. "People have that I put Evelyn on the stage.

That is another lie. My one thought in life was to educate ar.l train her right. And it was in that Mr. White helped me so much. Evelyn never posed in a single studio that I had not visited myself and found to be a fit place for her.

"And it was Evelyn herself who insisted on going on the stage. It has been said that I took her to see George Lederer and got her her first engagement. It Mas Evelyn who brought Mr. Lederer to me. -She had secured an introduction to him when she became stage struck after we moved from Philadelphia to New York, and Mr.

Lederer was always as good as he could be to the 'girl. She was headstrong, self-willed and beautiful, and that led to all her trouble." THE SENATORIAL CAUCUS. The committee appointed by the Republicans of the House and Senate to arrange for a Senatorial caucus did well to fix so early a date as "Friday. It also did well to take the position that it was acting for the legislature and not for the candidates. The interests of the people will be best served byCtending the Senatorial contest at onci rpd giving the Legislature a clear floVcr legitimate business.

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W. KSNTMlil. LONGER LIFE AND LONGER LEGS. At the recent meeting of the Ameri-ran Association for the Advancement of Science, the most interesting subject discussed was the American, his past, present and future, especially tbe past and the future. The preponderance of opinion with these eminent etuneuts points to a longer span of life for mankind in general, but for the North American in particular, and for greater physical size and perfection.

If the learned men who undertook to enlighten their scientific brethren, and incidentally the public, on this matter are not seriously astray, the American of the past was one of the earliest human-beings to set foot on this planet, while the American of the future will be about the biggest, the strongest, the most intellectual, the most morally admirable and possibly the longest-lived specimen of Adam's race in existence. All in all. It was great day for America and the Americans when the scientists got together and compared notes. One of the most interesting papers on the American of the past was based on the recent exploration of a mound that lies about ten miles north of Omaha, near the town of Florence, Neb. The vgnifieanee of this burial phicc consists in the fact fiat it lies In the peculiar geological formation that Is.

called "loess," and that be-' longs to the antique age of the Glaciers, which may date back 75.000 or 80.000 years. The antiquity of the human bones and skulls found in this mound is proved not only by their position geologically, but by their anatomical peculiarities, which plainly show that they represent a very early type of man perhaps the earliest that has as yet been discovered on this continent. They are far older than the celebrated "mound builders," whose skeletons have been found buried above the resting place of the more ancient nice. They were a most remarkable type of men. In the first place, if they were not giants, they were at least of unusual stature, averaging six feet in height, with great massive limbs, whose bones were uncommonly rough, indicating that their owners possessed large, muscles, fitting them for their struggles with the wild animals, since disappeared, which were their contemporaries in ancient Nebraska.

This much concerning the ancient history of our country. Tae future history, still more Interesting, was developed in a paper by Dr. W. J. Mc Gee.

It was a bold speculation, resting on a great accumulation of more or less convincing facts. The striking characteristic of the American is, that he combines many types, and in so doing hetends to obliterate each distinctive parental form, while uniting the main peculiarities in a now combination. The fut.iro American will represent tt.c strongest of human types, because' he is made up of the strongest types now existing on the globe, lie combines the vigor of all. and shows no tendency to revert to. any particular ancestral form.

The North American will have a long start over the South American, if for uo other reason, because he has begun his process of development so lier. So In stature there is" a continual xrowtfc. TosiLh- the average raay in cur au'oseik, ion la paid wul in al! paptra sent by mail. Alter mak'rtf plea.ia not that your la Dronarly dated. No rclpt will GOVERNOR HOCH AND THE "KID FRATS." A curious condition of affairs prevails in our public high schools, where the superintendents of experience and ability almost invariably disapprove of the "Greek letter fraternities," as the "kid frats" style themselves, but are powerless to suppress them.

Governor Hoch refers to tie subject in his message to the Legislature of 1907 as follows: "Superintendents and principals of our cities are confronted with a new difficultty, the growth of high school fraternities. These fraternities should have no place in our high schools. It It is difficult enough to keep them with wise limitations in colleges and universities. The essential character of our high school system is democratic. There should be no caste in these schools.

All should be on a common level. Fraternities in these institutions are in conflict with this fundamental character of the high school system. They distract from the studious life of the pupils and cultivate a social life among the children that does not contribute either to their moral, intellectual or physical good. I believe they should he forbidden by law and boards of education given all possible power to suppress them." That a law is needed to aid superintendents in regulating these organized social bands of children is evidenced by the fact that one of them in an Eastern city has threatened to carry its case to the Supreme court of the United States if necessary to prove its right of existence. It does not seem to matter to the boys and girls who can afford to belong to an expensive and exclusive social organization that is contrary to the spirit of the public school, but it is high time that they were made to think about it a little.

Not only have these young people, who are being educated at the expense of the state, questioned and even threatened to defy the laws, but they have made themselves ridiculous in some instances. The New York Tribune says that if they wish to "appeal," why not to the Hague congress? Surely there is no issue in the world of greater moment to the welfare of mankind than the inalienable, right of a knick-erbockered school boy to ride goats and give grips and pass words and adorn himself with hieroglyphs. CURTIS RECEIVING VERY UNFAIR TREATMENT. It has come to pass -that the first thing a leading Kansas politician does is to go to Topeka, and the next thing he does is to land on Charley Curtis. They hit the Topeka Congressman because they believe the railroads are for him for United States Senator.

Wichita Eagle. No they don't do anything of the kind. They come to Topeka and land on Curtis all right but they don't land because they think the railroads are for him. They make such an excuse for their hostility but they are insincere. The "leading politicians" know that the air is overcharged with the idea that railroads are monsters of evil, and that if the cry of being a railroad man is raised against a candidate for office it has a' demoralizing effect on his ambitions.

But the misrepresentation of Curtis along the railroad line has been pretty baly overdone. It is one thing to charge a man wdth being a railroad tool and quite another thing to prove it. Mr. Curtis' enemies have been howling "railroad'' at him, but they have not been able to point to a single act of his that justifies the outrageous treatment which they have subjected him to. On the other hand the feeling in Topeka has steadily grown during the week, even with those opposed to him, that the kind of warfare which has been waged against Mr.

Curtis should cease in the name of fairness and decency. In her address before the federated clubs of Garden City, Mrs. Cora G. Lewis laid special emphasis on the need of clubs and legitimate places of entertainment. She spoke on "The Spirit of Fraternity," and in the course of her remarks, said: "There is too much of a tendency to build churches to save souls after they are lost, and not enough interest in establishing life saving stations to keep boys from going astray, by amusing them." The Topeka Herald has knocked the anti-Curtis forces galley west.

The papers and solons who are fighting him wee all Civil war copperheads according to that paper. Wichita Beacon. That is news to the Herald. The Beacon shows many signs of the severe strain which it is undergoing in this Senatorial fight. It acts as though it had the jim-jams.

Muz-Affered-Din, Shah of Persia, who died yesterday, had little regard for conventionality he died a natural death. It is fashionable in Persia for the Shah to be assassinated. The wasp waist is to be the fashion again. Stung! North American. ALWAYS THE If the sweet trait of being "always the same'' is so great a blessing when found in a friend or acquaintance, how much more invaluable is it in the closed ties of the home.

The husband who may be sure that, whatever comes, the wife will always greet him with "sweet reasonableness," the children who know that they need never fear that mother will be "cross," or father gloomy; the wife who may depend on the husband's serenity or the child's sunny cheer are indeed blest beyond measure. We cannot all give to those we love great fortunes; we cannot perhaps supply them with all the luxuries or opportunities we could wish, but we can give them what Is worth infiitely more: the gracious presence of love and cheer unfailingly. Denver Times. THE GIPSY KING. Chorrojuno, the self-styled king of the gipsies, is dead.

He was a great poseur, but a simple-minded, vain old man who dressed in gipsy apparel and stood hour after hour outside the sreat hotel near the entrance to the Alhambra palace in Grenada. Tourists who came along snap-shotted him and then, as soon as the picture was taken, he would demand toll for the He always, got it, and on this largess the king of the gipsies lived like a lord. When Queen Alexandra was in Grenada last spring Chorrojuno got himself up regardless and stood by the door where her majesty would be sure to see him as she passed out from the hotel. The royal camera was instantly made ready and the kin.r "snapped" by Alexandra's fair hands. A ONE-NIGHT STAND.

Hicks, the dug-out, whose first taste of freedom was a meal of plug tobacco, found when he entered the entertainment profession at $600 a week that he had bitten off more than he could chew. After one woeful spasm of stage fright he has gone back to the peaceful picking of $3 a day. MARS' WATTERSON. Mars' Watterson is basking somewhere in the sunshine of southern Europe by this time, but it is noticeable that all extracts from the Courier-Journal are still labelled what Mars' Henry says. It is something of an achievement in journalism for nn editor traveling abroad to be able to leave the impress of his genius and brilliancy on his staff behind him.

Alvin a True Sport. Our Alvin. of the office. Epent a few holidays in Canton and a few more goirg and coming. He arrived in Canal Dover at 11 a.

m. and traversed that city eight and times in search of a friend. That evening he witnessed a basket ball game and then took in all the electric theaters. Next day he and Miss went to Xew Philadelphia and visited all the electric theaters and stayed ns long at each as the management would permit. Next day he went to Canton, and after visiting the waterworks and the McKin-ley monument, he began to really enjoy himself by going to all the electric theaters.

The whistles blew and the bells rang the old year out and the Xew Tear in. But Alvin went on and on to the electric theaters. On the return trip Alvin inquired at Midvale, Goshen, Barnhill and Lock 17 if they had any electric theaters. Being 12 minutes late for Xo. 3 at Den-Ison he again went to all the electric theaters.

Coming tc Newcomerstown on No. 25 it was too late for the electric theaters, and Alvin was very sad. Thence he started afoot for West Lafayette, and there being r.o electric theaters in Islefa he came on home in time for the Indicator whistle yesterday morning. West Lafayette (O.) Indicator. How our ambitions change as we grow older." "Isn't it so? When I was a yong man I was amBitions for fame, honors, wealth.

But I forgot about those things yeais ago. Today my greatest ambition is that my daughter Lizzie learn to play the piar.o." "Remarkable:" exclaimed the man who started the conversation, and who, bv the way lived next door. "Remarkable! That's my greatest ambition, too." They're talking of making a "Cor.ey island" on Pikes peak. Come to think1 of it. you could have a high old time "there.

A University of Chicago professor, just back from the interior of Africa, declares cannibal tribes eat their own members but never strangers. How the pure food movement has traveled! Guide This is one of the most remarkable railways in the United Staies. English Tourist What is so remarkable i i aoout ii Guide E. IL Hariiman does not own it. snare the tortoise, to gather the co-coanut and to worship unmolested in his own way that is the San Bias idea of civilization, and with bow and arrow, bolo and machete he is always ready to fight for it.

From time to time the missionary has sought out the San Bias. The mila of the village, through his interpreter, has heard him calmly and respectfully through and then has told the missionary of his own religion, which he held afforded no room for improvement, and has incidentally mentioned an ancient custom of his people to permit no stranger able to walk to remain the village over night. And no stranger ever does stay night. The San Bias Indian is a true product of Central American soil. He was here before the Spaniard.

Long and bloody were the wars of the two people. But he never was conquered. A century ago he made a final and successful stand at Portobelo, and then at his leisure retreated fifty miles jungle-ward to where the Chagres cuts the Andes range in twain. There he built his ten villages and there to this day he has lived in peace. The San Bias Indians worship the Mighty Spirit, which they believe gave them life and takes them in death.

Each village has its priest or mila, who is also the chief counselor. There are an arzoguete and a tulete. teacher and physician. He acts as interpreter to the mila on the occasion of visits OLD SOLDIERS FOR CURTIS Object to Being Dictated to By Emporia Gazette. Editor of the Herald: The old soldiers know who their friends are without being told by the Emporia Gazette.

Charles Curtis has i always proven a stauch, reliable friend of the old soldier whether he be Republican, Democrat, Prohibitionist or. Socialist. No old soldier has ever appealed to Charies Curtis for his assistance in pension matters and been turned down. The signers ol the petitions have a kindly and fraternal feeling for Comrade Benson of Ottawa, they realize that no new member of the House or Senate can have tbe influence and are not familiar with the ropes as Charles Curtis would be, and the old soldiers are well aware that if they are to be benefited by generous and equitable pension laws it must be attended to at once as the pension rolls are rapidly decreasing every day. The editor of the Gazette tells us our duty to stand by an old soldier for United States Senator.

We would like to know If it was love for the old soldier that prompted him to publish that tirade against the old soldiers in his paper after our government postoffice building was completed and the honor was given to the old soldiers of Preston B. Plumb post No. 55 Hancock post No. 4G4, G. A.

to have in charge the raising the flag over the postoffice? There was a large crowd of old soldiers. Women's Relief Corps. La-diers of the G. A. Sons of Veterans and Ladies' Aid, and citizens generally present.

There was some of the old boys present, who left an arm or a leg upon Southern battlefields some were present who were severely wounded as color bearers a score or more present who suffered in Andersonvllle and Libby prisons, some on crutches, others suffering from diseases contracted in the service. "No wonder he old boys cheered when old glory was thrown to the breeze over our beautiful government postoffice building. They had a right to cheer the flag they loved and offered their young lives to protect. Now let me quote from the Emporia Gazette: "Cheering the Flag. "A lot of meanold devils gathered around the government building and listened to sneeches at the flag-raising.

When the flag went up they threw their hats up and whooped it up for the flag. Some of the old devils cheat the government out of its taxes; others of the old devils are giving tfceir neighbors short weights, and short measures." Now, comrades, how do vou like it for the editor of a Republican paper, or any other paper to call you "old devils" and say that you will steal, and cheat? Do you want such a one to dictate to you how to vofe? We in Lyon county know how this sa.me Gazette tried to down Congressman Miller; called him nothing but a 2x4, too small to represent this dist-trict, but the people thought different-iv. The old soldiers know that Miller 2. Refusal to give his life for his religion, home or tribe. 3.

Failure to kill wife or daughter before allowing them to be taken captive. 4. Insanity. 5. Desecration of the dead's resting place.

In conoequenc-e of the first singular belief the San Bbis blood is absolutely unmixed, for death and eternal damnation are the portion of him who marries another than a San Bias. Every man is a warrior, trained in the us-a of the primitive veapons of the jungle. The youth, upon receiving his first bow and arrows, must take an oath that should he be called to a battle in which the loss of his life is certain, he must before setting forth first kill his wife, daughters and infaut sons. Insanity is construed to be incontni-vertible evidence that the life of the victim has been sinful and that he has sold his soul to the evil spirits. Each family has its own cemetery.

The dead arc placed in hammocks of bark, and hung within a palm inclos-ure. This place is sacred beyond a'l else, and must be guarded as jealously as the family. Each man, upon taking his first wife, must render to his wife'p father the products of his labor till a child be born. He may later take additional wives in such number as the important of his station in the tribe may entitle" him to. But none may marry till he has provided a bamboo home for each wife.

was their friend, just as they know that Charles Curtis is their friend, and they are not only willing but anxious that he shall be a United States Senator. It is-to be hoped that the government may open the corner stone or the postoffice building and see if they cannot find the Emporia Gazette-where it calls our nation's defenders "old devils." The Southern confederacy and Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the Golden Circle called us "Yankee devils," "Lincolns heirlings" and such epethets, but the old boys don't take kindly to such a dictator. A MEMBER OF THE GRAND ARMY. TO INVESTIGATE BAILEY 28 Members of Legislature Sign Proposed Resolution. Austin, Jan.

10. A resolution providing for an investigation of the conduct of Senntor J. W. Bailey of this state was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. It is signed by twenty-eight members of the Legislature.

Senator Eailey's term will expire Ma rch 4. In the primary election of last July, Senator Bailey was indorsed for Senator by a practically unanimous vote of the people. Since that time it Is charged that evidence has: been obtairTed which shows that he has received large rums of money In loans and fees from the Waters-Pierce Oil company, the Lumber company, the Security Oil company and personally from H. C. Pierce of the Waleis-Piercet Oil company.

SANTA FE IS INDICTED Charged, With Uebating by-California Grand Jury. Los Augele3, Jan. 10. The federal grand jury returned two indictments yesterday against the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company containing seventy-one counts; The railroad is charged in the first indictment of sixty-six counts with granting certain concessions to- the Grand Canon Lime and Cement company on shipments cf lime from Nelson, to certain California points and to John F. Shirlin.

The second, containing ten counts, charges the railroad company with giving rebates on lime. Two indictments were returned also against the Grand Canon Lime and Cement company, one of six counts for accepting rebates and the other containing seventeen counts, charging it with accepting concessions. The birth record In New York la3 year was the greatest ever reported. Who says the Presidential are ineffective? Pittsburg Dispatch. MOST ANYTHING.

A WORD FROM JOSH WISE. Self-preservation, they say, is th' first law uv nature. Doin' somebody else seems be th' second. The Indianapolis police caught a la year old Chicago girl named Helen Fugit. who had left.

home a week before to go on the Mage. Inasmuch as the Indianapolis' police caught her. Helen evidently is inappropriately named. v. i There's nothing without its good feature.

If Corey marries Mabelle Gillman. she'il never go into vaudeville. A revival in' Ohio, has resulted In some of the participants receiving the "gift of tongues," enabling them to speak in many-languages. As might be expected, most of the persons so -affected are women. about the play that the Paris crowd hoot-its vulsraritv.

You I should knew that' anything Paris can't stand can't be described in tms country "Where are you goin. my pretty maid?" "I am going sir." she said. "I will go with you, my pretty maid. "Of all the nerve man ever display! "Why we've not been introduced! he said. "That makes no difference.

Here's my card. As vou will see. I am a pure food inspector, and I am going with you whether you wish me to or not." "Tou have written here," said the city editor, "that this man came from a fam-'iiy ail the members of which have been eneaged in literature." "That's what I intended to say, replied the new reporter. "Tea, but you 'have failed to tell in what Dart of Indiana they lived.".