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WONDERFULLY FAT YEAR. THE NEED OF MORE CARS sudneys Nursing baby? It's a heavy strain on mother. Her system is called upon to supply nourishment for two. Some form of nourishment that will be easily taken up by mother's system is needed. Scott9? Emulsion contains the greatest possible amount of nourishment in easily digested form.

Mother and baby are wonderfully helped 'by its use. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c AND $1.00 8 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 SHE IS IMPROVING Miss Zona Heckert Gradually Re covering from Assault. Says Man Never Spoke a Word Believes That He Was a Local 7 Character. From Friday's Daily. Miss Zona Heckert, the girl who-(vas night operator for the Santa Fe at B'eSota arid who was badly beaten up not long ago, is recovering nicely.

She is how able to be up 1 3 -lil 1- V- ana arounu, aiinougn sue is oi course an invalid, as she will probably will be for some time. The feeling at DeSota concerning the affair has not abated a bit. Although not any noticeable progress has been made toward catching the criminal. Of one thing all DeSotans are assured and that is, that Miss Heck-, ert's assailant is a local character. George Dole, on whom the thought of suspicion rested and concerning whom several newspapers have printed stories saing he was guilty, has been cleared of all connection with the case.

Every strange man who comes to De Sota who does not care to give a complete description of himself and his business is treated badly by the De Sotans. Miss Heckert herself, it is said, is inclined to believe that the man who attacked her is someone who either lives or has lived in De Sota. She is confident the man knew her habits, her time of going to work etc. Furthermore she says now that the man never spoke a word or uttered a sound. Miss Heckert believes now that had he done so, he would have revealed his identity.

It seems odd that the man should have kept so silent, not even to have given the girl some threat. These theories of Miss Heckert 's are encouraging to those who are interested in the case, for it shows a strengthening in her memory. Those who are working on the case hope that Miss Heckert improves in strength she will recover more of her memory. One thing is positive, should any clews develop or the, criminal be caught, even two or three years' from now, the people of DeSota will be as worked up over the matter as tney would nave been if the man had been caught the day of the 1 DR. S.

W. GLEASON DEAD. Former Resident of This Comity Passes Away in New York. From Friday's Daily. Capt.

N. Crowder recently handed the World a clipping contaning information of the death of Dr. Samuel W. Gleason at on B'ecember 7. Dr.

Gleason will be remembered by many people here as. he practiced his profession here for seven years. The clipping, which is in the form of a dispatch from Brockport, follows. Brockport, Dec. 7.

This mornng at an early hour, occurred the death of Samuel W. Gleason, M. one of Brockport 's oldest and most prominent residents. His death occurred after a short illness of one week, although he had been sick at various times during the past year. He was 87 years of age, having been born in the town of Bergen, in 1821.

His father was Abiah Gleason, who settled the town of Bergen in 1809, crossing the Genesee river on a log. He served in the war-of 1812. Dr. Gleason received his early education in the village of Brockport, and afterwards studied medicine under Dr. Barnes Coon, of Ohio, and also under Dr.

Robert Andrews. He was an active member of his profession for sixty-one years, twenty-four years at Bergen, seven years in Kansas, one year in Michigan, thirteen years at Holley, and sixteen years at Brockport. He was considered one of the best doctors in Western New York. He had a large practice in this village and vicinity, although the past two or three years he was compelled to confine his practice to office calls only. He served several terms on the board of health of the village of Brockport.

In 1S65 he married Harriet daughter of Samuel Etone, who survives him. He is also survived by one daughter, Mrs. Adelle Carkner, of this village. o- Robbed Trousers Pocket. Burglars entered the house of G.

H. Murphy at 418 Mississippi street, night before last. They were there for some time after 11:30 o'clock, as Mr. Murphy did not go to bed until then. They left tracks all around the house and tried every window.

Finally they came in through the east door. They took $4.65 from the pockets of Mr. Murphy's trousers and left the trousers lying in the, back vard DEPOSITS BILL. The proposed new banking law by which the state woiId require state bankers to contribute to a fund to be used to guarantee the deposits in all state banks evidently is go- i a i mg t0 precipitate a snarp airuggie Vhen the matter comes up in the Legislature. The National bankers are a unit against the bill, the state bankers are pretty well divided on the subject, while people who are not engaged in the banking business are also divided, not many of them taking much interest in the measure either way.

The principal effects of the bill, so far as can be determined now, will to give state banks some advantage over national banks in the matter of securing deposits, and to give the people confidence in banks now run or to be established by men who, for one reason or another, have not acquired the confidence of the people. These seem to be the more important effects on business likely to accrue from the bill, if it becomes a law. However, it will put into the hands of the state treasurer a large sum of money-several millions at least its investment 1 being largely discretionary with him. This would be an aggravated form of the treasury evil which we have just got rid of, through the state depository law. It also would tie up five per cent of the state banks' deposits and prevent them using this 1 much money for profit, although likely it would offset this by increasing the deposits more than, the five per cent required to be placed with the state.

The main argument urged on behalf of the bill is that it would render deposits in state banks absolutely safe. This is undoubtedly would do. If there were any sufficient reason for considering these deposits unsafe at present, this would be the only argument necessary. But the fact is that deposits in state banks are now so safe as to be almost entirely beyond danger from bank failures. In this state there has been cotinuously on deposit in the state banks, for the past two years, over $50,000,000, and this sum has steadily grown until it is now something like Not one dollar of thisvhas been lost through a bank failure for there has been no failure in that time.

This indietes safely mighty close to the absolute. Therefore we can see no reason why any further measures of safety are necessary when there are important drawbacks to those features, as there are to this proposed guarantee-deposits law. No other state has found such a law desirable. The federal government has no such law and, in spite of a pending bill, is altogether unlikely to enact such a law. It looks to tHis paper as though it is unnecessary troubling of the waters to agitate for the passage of a law in Kansas at this time.

News of the illness of J. K. Hudson came, as a personal sorrow to a large number of people' all over Kansas, and to many outside this state. For many years the name of Major Hudson was a potent fetich in Kansas politics, and he was known in every household in the stite. He was a major during the Civil war and was made a brigadier general after the Spanish-American war.

He made the Topeka Capital a great newspaper and had much to do with moulding the opinions of the people of this state for a quarter of a century. He was a legislator and state printer, and once came near being elected United States Senator Perhaps no other man in been so intimately related to so large a number of people within this state a General H.ndsnn -nrrl nil liio it. inends everywhere will join in the sincere hope that he will speedily gafely recover One of the significant things of this season is what the United States Senate did not do to LaFollette, when he took his seat this winter. Pat Coney has broken into print lagain. It is getting to be pretty T.

newspapers, nowadays. There being nothing else 'before the house, may we inquire what has become of the proposed Kansas Semi-Centennial Exposition? Curtis denies being a railroad And his denial appears on the first page of the Kansas City Journal! How convincing! THE GUARANTEE The pressure- brought to bear upon the raDroads for cars in which to snP almost every conceivable tind of reight, during the past few weeks, is a trouble that is national, Collier's Weekly takes a serious (i ii i i i. view oi ims snonage, seeing xi an. impediment, if not a more diffi-- cu obstacle, in the way of the pro- jgress of our prosperity. Collier's says Prosperity cries: "More cars!" And the beseechment receives only helpless echoes from the car-build-.

ing companies. These are months behind their orders. The shipper clamors at the railroad, the railroad clamors at the car-builders; the car-builder do3 his best but that does not keep up with prosperity. In the West there are not cars enough to carry coal to those who need it, nor to move the grain to the flour mills. In the Pennsylvania manufacturing districts millions, of tons of freight await cars to carry them to market.

It all reads magnificently something like a man so rich that he can't invest his money as fast as it accumulates. But he is fatuous who sees in this merely a temporary inconvenience flowing from abundance. Prosperi ty without cars is no prosperity. Coal at the mouth of the mine is not heat or power or light; wheat in the barn, unable to reach the mill, is not flour or. bread.

And, more-eve manufacturers, mine owners, all producers, do business on credit. To pay. their bills they depend on prompt marketing of their output. Goods clogging the factories, and no cars to carry them to purchasers if this does not spell potential panic, what handwriting is clear? THE JUDGESHIP SALARY PROPOSITION. In the hurry and bustle incident to the opening of a session of the Legislature when a United States Senator is to be chosen there is some reason to fear that matters of legis-J lation will be overlooked during the first week or two of the session.

It is to be hoped this will not be" true of the proposed bill to increase the salaries of the judges of the Supreme court. There is no opposition worth mentioning to this bill. Everybody is in favor of it. The only danger lies in the fact that, if it affects the pay of the four judges just elected during the six-year term for which they were elected, it must be one of the very first things done when the Legislature convenes, and must receive the signature of the Governor before the day of inauguration, which is just one week from the day on which the Legislature convenes. The World, like ninety-five per cent of the people all over Kansas, hopes that this matter will be attended to.

promptly. It need not interfere with the other important matters on, hand. A very simple bill amending the present law will be sufficient to do the business. Let it be drafted, introduced, pushed through both houses and signed by the Governor without delay. It all depends upon the point of view.

While the anti-eorporation papers are branding J. J. Hill a monumental trust builder the Kan-j Lity Journal hails him as an "empire builder." And both are right. 1 he agitation for a pardon for Willie Sell the fact that Lawrence people to the number of 3,000 once signed a petition for a pardon for this man. Lilly Leiby circulated the petition, and it was very favorably received by almost' everybody to whom she presented it.

tt Ft. Scott is about the worst place for a whisky seller, gambler or bootlegger; the lid is sure on in that place," says the Kansas organ of the State Temperance Un- ion. And yet there are plenty of people who say that Gov. Hoch's ad ministration has done nothing to enforce the prohibitory law in Kansas towns. I Ihe recent special elections for state senators to nil vacancies in i I make trouble again next spring.

The fellows in the seven counties affected who didn't vote at the special, election will have to register over again, and a lot of them won't find out about it until it is too late. This county can be thankful that it doesn't have any special election to ball things up. i The year now drawing to a close has been a fat year. If there is any honest business that Jias not pros- pered amazingly during the past twelve months we do not know what it is. The calamity howler who -1 could find a reasonable reason for complainin- about the year" 1906 would have to exercise genius of an order that would put the prover- bial fox and the ordinary small boy to shame.

Nineteen Six has been such an exceedingly fat year that it is lop-sided all and no amount of trussing and lacing and bracing will make it take on the shape and semblance of being graceful.) And here in Kansas, are sitting right ins the prosperity at the most prosperous spot. What has been a faikre'in Kansas this year? Men who have tilled the soil diligently are repaid by an embarrass ment of riches that amounts to actual suffering, while lazy louts who trusted, to volunteer crops on un-ploughed ground have harvested record-breaking yields. The cattle a thousand hills and the hogs wallowing in a thousand valleys are the fattest and most numerous cattle and hogs, bringing the best prices at the stock-yards, ever known any- where. The merchants have pros- pered. The banks have prospered.

The newspapers and the restaurants and the contractors and the blacksmiths and the brick-layers every manner and fashion of business and trade and industry have prospered amazingly. Even the doctors and lawyers and undertakers are rolling in wealth. It has been so all over America; Providence has prospered the nation argiculturally, and upon this foundation has been builded every conceivable variety of business prosperity. For the farmer is the corner stone of the world. The effects of his success or failure can be traced to the uttermost corners of the business world, and upon the fruits of his toil depends the texture and sweetness and abundance of the fruits which every other man's toil.

The farmers have produced the wealth and have shared it with the millers, the butchers, the dry-goods and grocery and hardware merchants, and, through them, with the wholesalers, the manufacturers, the railroads, the ship-owners, the car and ship and locomotive builders," the makers of houses, and publishers of books, the providers of all manner of pleasures and luxuries. Far as the mind's eye can penetrate the prosperity of the farmers this year of grace has extended. Other years have been fat. Nine-teen-five and nineteen-four and nineteen-three were fat years, as were years yet farther back. But when Dame Nineteen-six has her portrait painted and put beside theirs, they will look like the before-taking pictures in the dyspepsia ad-vertisementswhile hers will resemble a gross caricature of the fat lady in the museum.

MORE IMPORTANT THAN BUSINESS. The Santa Fe railroad has issued new annual passes to all the big politicians, but has cancelled its arrangement to trade transportation to newspapers for advertising. It is a fact that all passes are bad business for the railroads. The newspaper transportation arrangement was a matter of business but the political passes, for which no legal service is rendered, are a matter of politics. People will watch with interest to see the recipients pay the railroads, out of the peoples' pocket, for the favor of passes, while the railroads continue to declare that they are already "out of politics, except as it behooves all good citizens to participate in polities.

The Santa Fe railroad, along with the rest, is a good deal of a hypocrite in matters pertaining to the public. 't People who have xnilked a cow and who has not will appreciate this suggestion, from the Osawa-tomie Globe: A Kansas City man has just succeeded in getting a' patent on an electric motor fastened on a cow's back, the electricity being generated by a dynamo attached to her tail. It strains the milk and hangs up the pail and the strainer. A small phonograph accompanies t)ie outfit and yells when the cow moves. If she kicks a hinged arm catches the milk stool and lams her over the back.

It is highly important that these organs should properly perform thair functions. When they don't, what lameness of th6 iae and back, vrhat yellowness of the skin, ''hat constipation, bad taste in the mouth, isick headftt-ho, pimples and blotches, and loss of courage, toll the story. The great alterative and tonic Hood'sSarsaparina Gives these vigor arid tone for the proper re'-formance of their functions, and -yft Take it Weekly World BY THE WORLD COMPANY. 7. 0.

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136 Entered at the postoffice in Lawrence, as second-class matter- GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS. The people in this country who profess to believe in government ownership are howled down as fanat ics and cranks, but meanwhile our southern) neighbor, Mexico, is going on in the acquisition of railroad properties, and now owns controlling interest in all the trunk lines within her boundaries. Mexico has long owned the Mexi can National railway. It recently acquired the major portion of stock in the Mexican Central. These two roads it lias consolidated under one management, having recently put A.

A. Kobinson of Topeka, formerly president of the Mexican Central, at the head of both roads. No one calls Mexico socialistic, or predicts that its control of this merged system will be anything other than highly suc cessful from every stand-point. There is no reason why this country might not do as well. There is but one reason why it ought not to do so, and that is because it does not particularly need to own the railroads.

If without owning them it can control them adequately, and it can; if it can make them treat the people fairly in the matter of accommodations and the matter of charges, and it can; then it can accomplish all desirable ends that government ownership could and would accomplish. Government reg ulation we must have government ownership we do not particularly need. Bat as for the predictions that government ownership would spell disaster to the nation and ruin to the roads, that is rubbish. Sensible people who are disinterested no longed fear the specter of government ownership. There is no reason why it would not be a conspicuous success if we had need to try it.

Indeed, the example of Mexico teaches us that government ownership of railroads, where there is need for it, is a conspicuous success, BEGGING FOR MERCY ALREADY The Newton bank robber, captured at Great Bend after an unsuccessful attempt to rob a second bank, is already begging Gov. Hoch for clemency, although he has not been in the penitentiary at all, as yet. He was sentenced to a trm of ten to twenty-one years. "Ten years is an awful long time to bej punished for one month's folly," says he. Ten years is, indeed, a long time to remain in prison, but the time for him to have begun thinking so was before he committed his crimes.

The day is past when reckless young dare devils ean: run amuck, endangering the lives of people and confiscating property ai. will, and go unpunished. They now almost invariably run up against 'justice quiek and hard. And then they whine, "It is so hard." We do not know what Gov. Hoch will say, although we have an idea it will hp.

something like this as it ought to be: f'You deliberately set out on a criminal career. It lasted but one month, to be sure, but already one man is in his grave as a result of your folly. You stole and squandered the funds of one bank, and you' tried to repeat the process "with another one. Your sentence may seem heavy' to you, but in reality it is very light. The best thing that can happen to you is to have to serve, out this period, and I shall do uuuiiu iu iuiciicic wuu juur -jci- ting the full benefit of the court's -decree." In the Name of Sense, that good common sense of which all of us have a share, how can you continue to buy ordinary soda crackers, stale and dusty as they must be, when for you can get fresh from the oven, protected from dirt by a package the very beauty of which makes to you nungry you NATIOHAL BISCUIT COMPANY.