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THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. SENATOR CURTIS'S OPPORTU OVERtlYER DEAD 4 The tech Fiend- That Is Salt niieum or Eczema, one of the outward rtrcnl'jestations scrofula. It comes in iichine, burning, oozing, drying, and scaling patches, on the hands, legs cr. body. I I or Don't neglect your cough.

Statistics show, that in New York City alone over 200 people die every week from And most of these consumptives might be living now if they had not neglected the warning cough. f-'t You know how quickly Scott's Emxxlsiori enables you to throw off a cough or cold. ALL DRUGGISTS WHERE EDITORS RULE. Their Opinions Influence" Congressmen, Says Atlantic. Here 's a clipping from the current Atlantic Monthly that is calculated to make every country editor feel good inside: "The power of the country press in Washington surprises me," said a Middle West congressman last winter.

"During my two terms I have been" impressed with it constantly. I doubt if there is a single calm utterance in any paper in the United States does, not carry some" weight in Washington among the members of Congress. You might think that what some little country editor says does not amount to anything, but it means a great deal more than most people realize. When the country editor, who is looking after nothing but the county printing, gives expression to some national question, the man off hee in Congress knows that it comes from the grass-roots. The lobby, the big railroad lawyers and that class of people realize the power of the press, 'but they hate it.

I have heard them talk about" it anl shake their heads and say, 'Too much power The press is more powerful than money' This was not said in flattery, but because he had seen on congressmen's desks the heaps of country weeklies, and he knew how closely they were read. smallest editorial paragraph tells the politician of the condition in that paper's community, for he knows that it is put there because the editor has gathered the idea from some one whom he trusts as a leader and the politician knows approximately who that leader is. the country editor often exerts a power of which he knows little. Mrs. Thompson Gone.

Mrs. Charlie Thompson, who has been connected indirectly with police" court for the past week or so, has left Lawrence. Yesterday she sold all her personal effects and went to Topeka, leaving Lawrence, so she said for always I eg 50c AND $1.00. 8 A VIGILANT CONSTABLE. Robert Grover Enforces the Law In Regard to Hunting.

Robert Grover, who lives a few miles out of Lawrence toward the-Wakarusa and who is constable of the township in which he resides, enforces the new game law very rigidly. Most officers of his class forget all about their duties after and hardly take time to know what the law really is. Grover is exactly the opposite. He knows the law and when offenders attempt to tell him, "that they can hunt without a license" Nhe quietly pulls a copy of the law out of his pocket and proves his point. During the holidays, he was kept busy keeping trespassers off of property where the owners wished no hunting.

He says that on one particular day, he received more than a dozen calls from neighbors to remove offenders from their premises. He alwaj's rides a horse and can cover his district in a short time. Owing to his vigilance, it is said, that the game is becoming moro abundant in the neighborhood. It would be a good thing for all communities if such men. as Mr.

Grover were guardians of the law. W. A. WALTERS DEAD. Pell Down a Mine Shaft in Colorado.

Word was received in Lawrence this morning telling of the death in Colorado of W. A. Walters of Lawrence. Mr. Walters was found in the "Venus" mine and had probably been dead a week when found.

Mr. Walters met his death by falling down a sixty foot shaft. Edward Walters will arrive here with the body, probably Sunday, in which case the funeral will take place Monday. Mr. Walters has been here for forty-five years and thus ranks among the oldest citizens of Lawrence and Kansas.

He is survived by one daughter, Miunie, who lives here, Edward ol Silverton, and Gustave, who lives in Brooklyn N. Y. i I 8 dust tight. Noted Kansas Democrat Passed Away Last Night. DIABETES WAS THE CAUSE.

Suffered Relapse From Pneumonia Died Alone. Widely Known as a Brilliant Lawyer Candidate for Attorney General Last Pall. Topeka, Jan. 10. David Overmy-er died suddenly at his home, 1101 Quincy.

street, at o'clock last night. Death was due to diabetes, although he had been sick since early in December, when he was taken ill with -pneumonia. His family was notified Saturday; nat tlhe illness would prove fatal, but his appearance was such that the family and Mr. Overmyer himself did not credit the statement of the physician. Yesterday Mr.

OVermyer arose at the usual time and ate a hearty breakfast. He also ate a hearty dinner and supper and there was no outward indications that his death was near. He left his family and friends laughing and talking and 20 minutes later was dead. It was the manner in which he had expressed a wish to die. Mr.

Overmyer was the candidate on the Democratic ticket last year for attorney general, and was given a high compliment by the people of Topeka and. Shawnee county in that be carried the city and lacked but a few votes of carrying the county. In Pickaway county in the state of Ohio, near Circleville, David Over myer was born, May 1, 1847. In 1849 his father moved overland in a covered wagon 'to Jackson county, where David grew to manhood on a farm. He worked his way in Asbury (now Pau) university, though he left to begin the study of law before he had fully completed the prescribed course.

He was admitted to the bar at county, Indiana, in September, 1869 and in 1870 he began the practice of his profession at North Vernon, where he continued until he removed from the state. In September, 1S82, he moved to Topeka. He became an intense Kan-san, enthusiastic in his to his adopted state. He rose to the first rank as a lawyer. In 1884 Overmyer was elected to the, Kansas legislature as an independent.

In 1S86 he openly joined the Democratic party and since acted with it. In 18S8 he was nominated for congress by acclamation by the Democratic convention for the Fourth Kansas district. As the Republican majority was overwhelmingly, he was defeated, though he ran far ahead of his ticket. In 1S83 he was appointed a delegate to the Pan-American Bi-Metal-lic congress at St. Louis.

In January, 1894, he represented ihe Democratic party in the famous quadrangular debate at Salina. He was nominated by the Democrats for governor in this same year, the honor being given him by acclamation. In 1902 he declined a unanimous offer of nomination of his party for governor. In 1904 he was for the third time chosen delegate at large to the Democratic national convention, where he was chairman of the Kansas delegation and placed General Miles in nomination for president in a speech of great power and eloquence. In this connection it will be remembered that it was David Overmyer who put Senator Harris in nomination for vice president at St.

Louis in 1904. At the Democratic state convention in April last he was by the unanimous voice of the convention drafted as a canidate for attorney general. Having previously absolutely declined to stand as a candidate for governor, and hasing strenuously insisted upon the nation of Senator Harris for This ends the summary 'of Mr. Overmjer's political career. David Overmyer was a splendid specimen of the courageous American citizen whose every action in public and private life was clean and tended to give everyj man a square deal no more and no less, let the consequences be what they might NITY.

In his speech of acceptance last night, Mr. Curtis declared that he would demonstrate the fact that he people's Senator," and 'fie would notry. Eve he is not controlled by the rail roads. Good! Now is Mr. Curtis 's supreme opportunity.

No man in this great state questions' his ability. His experience is ample by way of preparation for the high office of Senator. Nowhere is there any doubt concerning the quality of the service he will render, except upon the point on, which he so explicitly declares he will-show us that he stands right. Mr. Curtis is yet a young man in the forties.

He is in good health. No reason is apparent why, if satisfactory to the people, he may not regain in high public station for thirty-five years. There are no reasons why he may prove unsatisfactory to the people except those which he cau prevent and control. Let, him be, in sincerest truth, a people's Senator, as he declares he will be, and Charles Curtis may remain in the United States Senate, unless called to higher place, longer than any other Senator from Kansas. RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE.

The Kansas Legislature proposes to; enact a law that will really secure reciprocal demurrage for shippers. A law with this intent, enacted at the last session, proved to be a farce, since a "joker," inserted in the bill, rendered it too cumbersome and unsatisfactory to be practicable. Nebraska also is working for a satisfactory reciprocal demurage law, and the Lincoln State Journal says of it: There was once a man, wno wound his. clock every night for twenty years. Then he discovered that it was an eight-day clock.

For a generation American shippers have paid demurrage charges when they were slow to unload cars, and waited without recourse in such patience as they could command for the railroads to bring them cars when needed. Then the idea of reciprocal demurrage arose, and probably the shippers will not be happy till they get it. Whether this or the general disposition to criticise causes the change, the traveling public now shows a disposition to go still further, and apply the demurrage idea to passenger traffic. We have; always taken it as a matter of course that the train should be late. We have made no particular resistance when the passenger director gave us to understand by his manner if not by his words that it was none of our business how late it was.

But these were the days when it was also none of our business to fix or supervise freight or passenger rates. One hundred and one trains a day on the average were late in arriving or det. parting at the New York Central" station in New York in December. An anarchisf figures that this meant, an aggregate loss to passengers of 250 working days each day, valued at say $2,000, and thinks the road should compensate for the loss. Suppose it were proven, as perhaps it could be, that as much or nearly as much poverty is caused by enforced idleness due to belated trains as by the voluntary unproductiveness the idle rich, why should there not be a reform party to demand passenger schedules to run trains by, rather than, as seems to be quite universally the case at present to be used as a sort of ideal to be hoped for but not expected or intended to be attained?" Probably, if William T.

Vernon gets into, the race for Congress in this district, it will be as a dark horse candidate. Ottawa is to have a canning factory. It is suspected that one of the most conspicuous who is not a member of Congress, will be the first to go through the mill. While, as we understand it, none of the state officers openly favor a general increase in salaries, each one of them thinks he knows of a certain official who is paid altogether too little for the duties he is expected to perform. A Lawrence man who is living in another state recently filed a petition for divorce.

The petition consisted of only six lines, but the lines were spaced so far apart that the six lines occupied an entire sheet of paper. He explained that he meant to leave plenty of room for the court to read between the lines things bearing on the case which he could not very respectfully put in words. I 1111 oughly characteristic of that force- ul, conscientious and rather senti mental governor. It is strong in its expressions of favor to the worthy institutions of the state, but is fairly Rooseveltian in its fine disregard for legislative limitations in enact ing laws to reform abuses of every sort and kind. The pronounced and unequivocal nronoun cement fnr everv one of the laws favored by the "Square Deal" committee in the last campaign effectually gives the lie to the claims of papers unfriendly to that move ment thaUthe Governor does not be- lieve in it or favor it.

He is for a primary law quite as stringent as any that Mr. Stubbs ever favored, He is against pass-giving for any po- litical purpose, and would have the I Legislature so enact. He is for tax reforms of a substantial and, as nearly as can now be a practical nature. This was the! "Square Deal" platform, and this is the head and fore-front of the Governor's message. He is for prohibition, of course.

He is also for woman suffrage and those who know him will add, "of course." Me points "with pride, as well he may, to the work of the last Legislature and of his administration. He suggests a few amendments which experience of two years shows to be needed, but none of these proposes a fundamental change in any of the work of the last biennium. Gov. Hoch's atitude toward the university is all that its best friends could desire. "Give the university all it wants," is the substance of the message on this point.

His suggestion that the three great educational institutions be put under control of one board of regents is well worthy of thought. Probably this will not be done at this session although it may, but likely it will come up in definite form for substantial consideration at some session within the next few years. It would be well for those friends of K. U. who have the best interests of the institution at heart to be thinking over the matter so as to be prepared, when the time comes, to exert their influences for whatever they find will be for the best interests of the university.

The minor recommendations of the message are mostly good. We can not agree with (has excellency upon bank guarantee proposal, but otherwise we see nothing in the message that is not worthy of the heartiest endorsement. On the whole, Gov. Hoch's 1907 message is a good strong message, well up to the average of Kansas gubernatorial messages to the Legislature. The Kansas City Star seems to be quite disappointed to think that it was not roundly abused in the governor's message.

Has it occurred to the Star that the governormay have forgotten there was such a paper! "A Kansas foreman," says the Wichita, Eagle, "gave the order 'joint and in ten minutes there were not men enough in sight to make a joint lining." That probably is because they were just out of sight making a joint line-up. Oklahoma has gone after two-cent fares in the right way by incorporating a two-cent clause in the constitution. The time is not far distant when a majority of the states in the Union will have two-cent railroad fares. Speaker Simmons is said to be against a direct primary law. Mr.

Simmons, however, has declared that he will not let his personal opinions influence him in making up committees, and if he does this he will neglect to take advantage of the opportunity which he has to be unfair and thwart the wishes of the people, ninety per cent of whom are for a primary election They say prohibition under Hoch doesn't prohibit, but the joints-in the big Topeka hotels are all closed something that was not true during any previous session of the Legislature in recent years. This may be just an accident, but more likely it is due to a wholesome fear of the Governor. The Topeka jointists don't have the kind of accidents that cost them two months' profitable business. Henry Soxman Dead. A dispatch, received today from Whittier, announced the death of Henry R.

Soxman, formerly of this city. The deceased was a brother of Geo. Soxman. It cannot be cured by outward appli ions, rhe V.ooJ mast be rid cf the purity to it is due. HooCsSarsaaari! lias cdr-d xacst persistent and diflicult prostitute Tor Hood's; no Weekly World BY THE WORLD COMPANY.

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Telephone 136 Entered at the postoffiee in Law 'fence, as second-class matter- INDIVIDUALITY AND MANHOOD The longer we live and observe the ways of our fellows the more we are convinced that there are no cir cumstances under which the individ uality of men does not count for more than any other characteristic. In the family it is the individuality of the parents that brand the chil dren for good or evil. In the schools it is the individuality of the teach ers and the individuality of the pu pils which count. In business, in ev- ery-day life, in social gatherings, the individuality of the component mem bers dominates the texture of the whole. The race problem with which have so much worry and trouble is not a problem of color so much as a problem of individuality.

A man should' be classed by whether he is good or bad, intelligent or ignorant, progressive or backward, not by the color of his skin. The President has emphasized this, as have most of our leading thinkers, and slowly it is soaking into our comprehensions and dominating our thoughts and opinions. The writer recently has been thrown among the members of the stated two lawmaking bodies. Here the rule holds good. Legislators are good or bad, useful or harmful, according to the kind of men they are.

There is no such a thing as a Legislature that is wholly good or wholly bad. The legislature is as composite in its qualities as the Lawrence Committee or the Commercial club or the city council or any body of men you might get together in Lawrence. And it is this collection of individualities that counts for good evil in the Legislature. We presume it is so Congress, or in Parliament, or any other great gathering of men. We know it is so among lawyers and doctors and even preachers.

You know contemptible men in every one of these professions, and again, you know big, broad, deep men, of mighty principle and unquestioned character whose manhood is 'unquestioned and unquestionable. It is the individuality of the man that counts. Character is not a matter of location or environment. Boys raised in the solitude of the woods or the prairie have grown up to be great and good m.en to take their places beside other men of their stamp reared in the noise and bustle of the city. Other boys in like surroundings have grown into bad and vicious men.

Opportunity doesn't count for so much as people often think it does. Advantages and surroundings and associates, important though they be, are secondary to personal force and determination that is, individuality. Young men and young women virtually make themselves what they will. Men and women must, in the last analysis, stand or fall by what they have made of themselves as individuals. The railroads are peculiarly shortsighted in the course they are pursuing with the people.

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