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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23


is rare, he is more apt to lose him than
most doctors unless some other physi-
clan is called in before death comes. He
has tried to be a teacher, but he failed
in imparting the knowledge that is
packed away in his brain. He has tried
to write upon the subjects which he has
studied, but somehow he fails to make
a hit at that. His friends are sure that
his lack of success is not his fault
Some of them say he was overschoOled
and some say he was wrongly taught
They are not right. Education is a good
thing 1t does not prevent success, but
education alone will not force it.
OF all the commencement exercises I
ever attended, and there have been many
of them, those that were held in a GER
tain little country hall at the close of
the winters term of school in a certain
little village called ''the Hook pleased
me most. They were called school ex-
hibitions' and were sometimes held be-
fore the close of school, but their object
was the same as that of the commence
ment exercises of more pretentiOus in
situations of learning-to exhibit the at
tainments of those who took part. Per-
haps the reader has attended such enter
tainments, perhaps he has spoken a
piece at one of them, or sung a song, or
been a character in one of the ''dia-
logues" that were so popular at school
exhibitions when he and were boys.
Do you remember the dialogue, Money
Makes the Mare Cor and the recitation
that the storekeeper's daughter used to
be so fond of about ''Bennie McCree''
and her desire to have him ''cOme over?''
How her black eyes used to flash when
she gave voice to the linesl She was al
ways encOred- And do you remember
how effectively she used to recite Cur
few Shall Not Ring Tonight?'' 1t was
her intention, you viii remember, too,
to study elocution at Ann Arbor or
Boston or somewhere else Her father
and mother were afraid that if she did
she would become an actress and had
the minister talk to her about it. But
she neither studied elocution nor became
an actress. She married the minister,
who CHANGED not to be too old and a
bachelor.
Silas Stout, the other e1ocutionary star
of the neighbOrhoOd, was greatly put
out by the match, for he had marked the
young woman for himself His standbys
were Barbara Frietchie'' and ''Sheri-
dams Ride. !" He was always recalled,
too, and when his first recitation was
''the ride ''Frietchie'' was the recalled
piece, and vice versa He had elocution-
airy and likewise dramatic ambitions as
well as the girl, but they have never
been realized.
when she took up with that there
preacher, - he said to me the other day,
81 was all kinder broke up like. went
into the produce business. Inever spoke
40 more pieces. / D. MARSHALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
TO QUARANTINE ATCHISON.


Smallpox Spreads From That City and
Complaints Are Made.
The state board of health has decided
to take action in the smallpox cases at
Atchison. There is serious danger of
the disease spreading and one case has
been reported at Doniphan, a little town
north of Atchison.
Governor LewelIing received the fol-
lowing letter today:
BENDENA, Kas., May 81, 1894
Gov. L. D. LewelIing:
[ wish you would take steps toward
quarantining Atchison. 1t is infested
with smallpox. The city allows the citi-
zens who have the disease to walk the
streets daily. A case has been reported
at Doniphan, a small town about six
look after this matter.
J. w. HOWARD.
The letter was referred to DR.. Dykes,
secretary of the state board OF health,
and he went to Atchison this afternoon.
Bendena is small town near Atchison.
DIR. Dykes says that if the city authori-
ties do not take proper measures to pre-
vent spread of the disease, that he will
quarantine the entire city SO as to prevent
the disease being communicated to out
lying towns and country.
DR.. Dykes received IA letter this morn
ing from Health Officer p. S. Mitchell,
telling him that four new cases had been
reported and two deaths from the disease.
The total number of cases so far reported
is thirty-six and seven deaths have oc-
Cured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
Chicago Press Clubs.

In no city probably are newspaper
men better organized than in Chicago
The Chicago Press club was established
IA years ago, Franc B. Wilkie, then
chief assistant of Wilbur F. Storey, be-
ing its founder and first president
None but working newspaper men,
''who have themselves forged the key to
unlock its doors, - as some one has said,
are allowed to be members. The pub
fishers of the Chicago papers have a
Daily Newspaper association, which
holds monthly meetings for the con-
sumption of lunch and the settlement
Of such questions of business policy as
all agree should be treated uniformly by
all the papers. The Whitechapel club is
another organization of newspaper men
which has gained wide notoriety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
VIEWED FROM AFFAIR.
British Paper Says There'u BE Little
Change In the Mckinley Law.

British Paper Says There'H BE Little
Change In the Mckinley Law.
LONDON. May 23.-The Chronicle says:
There is a world of meaning in the de-
cision of the Republican senators in the
United States congress to allow liberty
of action in the tariff bill. The Chroni-
Gle argues that there is little difference
between the proposed bill and the Nc
Kinley law, and says that the Republi-
cans think that if the Democrats now
make admittedly necessary changes in
the Mckinley law it will save the Re-
publicans much time and trouble when
they succeed to power. Hard times
have played mischief with President
Cleveland's policy, for the continued ex-
port of gold after the silver law, to
which he ascribed the hard times, was
repealed, has given color to the state
ment of the high tariff people, that the
free trade agitation is responsible for the
paralysis of trade and the outflow of
gold.
The feeling has grown strong and gen
eral that the time is not ripe for change
in economic policy, and it would be wise
for British traders with the United
States to adjust their business to the
prospect of no material reduction in the
present tariff.
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TO knock at the door. Indeed the grad
yates confidence in himself must be
sufficient to give him strength to ham,
mer down the door if it does not open
at his tapping, and if the .gibes of the
paragrapher and the caricaturist were
really to weaken that self confidence it
were better that they were taken out
into the middle of the sea and dropped
therein with heavy weights about their
necks.
To some persons commencement day
comes many times. My friend Dr.. We
rawyze is such a man. As the name
have given him indicates, he Is full Of
lore of many sorts, although he has not
a large practice The first commence
ment day in his experience came when
he left the country school in an interior
state where he studied the three RS Tt
was not called commencement day 1t
was simply the ''last day." and with
half a dozen overgrcwn farm ers' lads
and as many country girls he spoke
piece on that occasion He was regarded
as boy of unusual promise, for he could
do all the sums in the arithmetic, and
he was the only scholar that had ever
studied physiology in that school. His
teacher frankly confessed that he knew
much less about the subject than did
the boy and predicted for him bril-
liant professional career. After that the
young man attended a nearby village
academy, and there, too, he was a
marked pupil. The last day there was
not called commencement either, but it
was marked by CLOSING exercises, - in
which he took prominent part.
From the academy he went to one Of
the smaller colleges, and there he led
his classes, as before, taking so many
honors every year that if he had not
been a young man of unusual sweetness
of character he would have been posi-
lively unpopular. From college he went
to a medical school in New York or
Philadelphia, 1 forget which, and when
he had finished his professional course
there he was again a figure at com
mencement day-his fourth, but not his
last, for then he sailed across the ocean
and studied under foreign masters of
medicine, where he went through his
fifth and final commencement day.
The period between his first and last
appearance at closing exercises was
about 5 years, all of which time ne
was subjected to the most elaborate and
conscientious training He learned all
the things that were in the books that
he studied. He could and can yet, for
his memory is remarkable, answer al
most any question that may be found be-
tween their covers But somehow ne has
not been a successful man nOtwithstand-
ing all his schooling. Something is the
matter. When he has a patient, which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
NORTH TOPEKA.
Items OF Interest from tho North Side OF
the ISiver.

Items of Interest thu North Side OF
the Isivsr.
Miss Ida Cromwell is visiting her par
ents at Menoken this week.
Stone is on the ground for the new
kitchen at the Union Pacific hotel.
Rev. G. W. Browning Of Council
Grove, spent last night with friends here.
Mrs. Harry Staley is entertaining her
mother, Mrs. M. j. Bailey of Pottsville,
Illinois.
Ed Scott has removed his cigar facto-
ry to his old quarters in the Nystrom
building.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Jones on West Cor
don street are the parents of baby, born
this morning.
Henry Saunders is dangerously i'll at
his home on Polk street Little hope is
entertained for his recovery.
]. ]. Kopp of Elmont, was in the city
today. He says he has heard of no inju-
ry to the wheat by the recent frost.
Miss Anna Dake has returned from
Emporia where she has been attending
the grand lodge of the Degree of Honor,
A. o. .. w.
Mrs. George Currier and her sister
Miss Libbie Burnish, will depart tomor-
row for three months visit to relatives
at billiards, Ohio.
Mr. John Spetter and Miss Annie Gam
lOOsky were united in marriage at the
German Catholic church yesterday.
They have gone to Atchison to reside.
]. Q. A. Peyton was in town yesterday
buying Paris green. He says the bugs
sit around his place and jump on the
sprouting vegetation as soon as it APP
pears above ground. His grape crop
was entirely destroyed by the frost
Col. John F. Carter of the Union Pa
cific, has returned from a six weeks tour
of the south. He travelled through Tex
as, Mississippi and Louisiana. He says
many places he visited show evidence of
prosperity, but in some localities the peo-
pie are having a hard time. He found
little sympathy with the Coxey move
ment and says there are no recruits GO
ing from the south. He is much bene-
tited in health by the trip.
When you need lumber give E. p.
Ewart, the new dealer a call, 1912 Kan
sas avenue, north.
Monarch gasoline stoves at Henry's.
Go to Henry's for roofing and spout
ing.
Lukens Bros. are selling full leather
top buggies and harness, for $50.
Take your prescriptions to A J. Arnold
& Son, S21 Kansas ave. Established 1870
A complete line of homeopathic reme-
dies at A ]. Arnold's & Son
Get your tennis shoes at the Blue Front
shoe store, 800 Kansas avenue.
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FIRE ALARM NUMBERS


s@Morse and Jackson SITS.
S6-KanSas ave. and Railroad St
6-Gordon and Taylor SITS.
S7-Laurent and Harrison SITS.
~s-Grant st. and Topeka ave.
"a" st. and Topeka ave.
12-kanSaS ave. and Fourth st.
13-Kansas ave and Second st.
s14-No. Station, Kansas ave. near Gordon
~15-Monroe and Kfous SITS.
~16-Kansas ave. and Garfield st.
I7-Kansas and Tenth ayes.
19-Kansas and Euclid ayes.
21-Crane and Adams SITS.
22-No Station, 18th st. near Kansas ave.
23-Lake st. and East Sixth ave.
2EFourth and Branner SITS.
25-Seventh and Holiday SITS.
26-Eighth ave. and Madison ST.
N-Tenth ave, and Sac and Fex state road.
99-Third and Monroe SITS.
s1-Sixth and Topeka ayes.
82-Sixth ave. and Clay ST.
ss-No. Station, Jefferson st. near Fourth
34EWestern ave. and Ninth st.
85-Tenth and Topeka ayes.
S6-Fourth and Taylor SITS.
S-NO. Station. Clay st. near Eighth ave.
S8-Twelfth and Taylor SITS.
42-Euclid ave. and Buchanan St
48-Thirteenth and Lane SITS.
45-Eleventh st. and Morris ave.
46-Seventh and Lane SITS.
47-Topeka ave. and Third st.
62@Eleventh and Monroe SITS.
6s-Tenth ave and lawrence ST
i23-No. 4O8 East Sixth ave.
124-EucIid and College ave.
41-Yan Buren, and Twelfth SITS.
61-Quincy and Crane SITS.
6EEourth and Lafayette sts
Fire alarms are sounded upon the tower bell
at department headquarters by striking the
number of the signal station nearest the fire, in
this manner: If for box 4, four distinct strokes
and repeated; if for box 10. one stroke, short
pause then three strokes. and repeated. thus.
I'LL LII, etc. '22'' Is sounded for all fires
within the district bounded by Fifth, Ninth,
jackson and Quincy streets.
TEN sTEoKEs. and repeated. followed by the
number of the signal station nearest the IRE, Is
the SECOND ALAHM-for serious fire.
THREE STROKES, followed by TW ELvE, and
repeated, is the GENERAL ALARM for a very
dangerous fire. and calls out the entire depart
ment with a detail of police.
TWO STROKES, slowly, indicates FIRE Is OUT.
One long whistle from water works, for fires
south of river. Three whistles from same, for
fires north of river.
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are about them They are young. They
are satisfied with the fact that they have
finished the first great task of life. They
are full of enthusiasm
To be sure, they sometimes think they
can do much greater things than they
afterward find themselves ca0able of.
They have vanquished the theories and
the ologies, and it shall go hard with
them, they think, if in the battle of life
they cannot best their fellow humans
who have not been educated, or who were
so unfortunate as to be born too early to
enjoy the superior advantages of present
educational methods But if they had
not enthusiasm and the conviction that
the world is their oyster, that all they
have to do is to knock at success door
and it will open to them, it would be
better if they had not graduated at all
The shining rewards of this world are
not for the Likes of those that are afraid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL.
vt rs CALLED COMMENCEMENT AT
The HIGHER INSTITUTIONS.

S7ov It Il Regarded and What 1t Means to
Different Peop1e-A Man of Many Com
Haencements-The School Exhibition and
the Rural IIocutionists.
Commencement
What does the word mean to you, read
er? Does it bring thronging memories
Of day that ended the period of train
ing and began period of real life that
has been full of successes, or has failure
been Your lot ever since commencement:
Perhaps there never was a commence
ment day for you Possibly you have
had to worry along through life, as have
so many of your brethren and your sis
tiers, without the advantages of scholas-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
LOCAL MENTION.

The board of pension examiners is in
session at 622 Kansas avenue.
Marshall's military band will play for
the funniest here on Monday, June 4th.
Ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborne and G.. c..
Baker, arrived in New York this morn
ing.
w. A. S. Bird will deliver Pythian
Memorial day address at Yates Center
May Both
The city electric light plant has been
putting in some new mud drums, and
will be ready for business full force
again tonight.
A daughter of John Mcdonald, color
ed, died of consumption at her home
near the old cotton mill yesterday, and
was buried by Poor Commissioners Hale
The young woman was 20 years of age.
Charles Fenskey has applied in the
district court for writ of habeas corpus
to secure the release of Lee Curtis. Sid
ney Pickens and Lew Webb, who are
in the county Jail charged with the Park
dale burglaries.
The rooms of the Kansas academy of
science in the west wing of the state
house, are now open to the public every
afternoon. The room has been refitted
with new cases, and all the books and
specimens belonging to the society
placed in available positions.
City Marshal T. j. Fleming of Empo-
ria, mas dDDllO0 10 IOROIuOT L6W6lllng
for A pardon for Ed Taylor, young EN-
poria colored boy, who was sent to the
penitentiary for breaking into store
The governor refused to act, except on
the recommendation of the board of par
dons.
1t is reported that during the period
in which the Montezuma hotel at Las
Vegas. n. NJ. is closed, a party of local
capitalists are fitting up the Peronero
ranch near by. as a health and pleasure
resort The site of the Montezuma. the
prettiest in all New Mexico, is growing
up in weeds.
Adjutant General Davis has received a
protest from S. r Washer, postmaster at
Atchison. against the use of the old bat
tie flags on Memorial day. The protest
was caused by the adjutant general
granting the flag of the old thirteenth
regiment to decorate the speakers stand
at Atchison on Memorial day
d. Holmes. druggist, 731 Kansas ave.
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BIMETALLISM IN GERMANY.
Considering the Proposal of Coinage at
159a to L.

LONDON, May 23.-A dispatch to the
Times from Berlin says: The imperial
currency commission has resumed its sit
ting. The object of the commission is to
consider the proposal of the bimetallists
that an international agreement for the
free coinage of silver at the 1913 to 1
ratio be contaminated as posi-
BILE, either with or without England.
The chief subject of discussion will
now be on Hon. Areits suggestions out
lined in the Deutscheswochen Blatt.
Herr Aretis says he gathered the impress
sion while in London that victory for
the bimetallists in England was proba-
bile.
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United Presbyterian Assembly.

PORTLAND, Ore, May 23.-Two hun
dred delegates and visitors to the gen.
era1 assembly of the United Presbyter-
ian church which convenes in Albany,
arrived from the east today. They were
joined here by 100 other delegates, and
all proceeded to Albany, where the as
sembIy will convene this evening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23

STRONG CITY, May 23.-B1rs. Ada Nc
Henry Funk, one of the wealthiest
women in the state, who was married to
Riley Funk. one week and deserted by
him the next, after months separation
and chase after him to various parts Of
the state, has persuaded Riley to return
to her. Yesterday he again took charge
mart of Chase county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
a BasebnII ChalIenge.

The boys of Lincoln school ask the
JOURNAL to publish the following:
Hereby take notice that the Lincoln
school nine will play match game with
any public school nine June at any
place the latter may desire. Answer by
JOURNAL or verbally.
A. ToRRENcE, Mgr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
CRACKED HIS SKULL.
Hfghwaymen at Wichita Beat q Mer
chant and Rob Him.

chant and Rob Him.
WICHITA, Kan, May 2S.-L. McGill, a
merchant, was halted by highwaymen
while going home from lodge last night.
He resisted the robbers and was badly
beaten and left senseless on the ground.
A gold watch and considerable money
was taken.
McGill crawled home and is in a seri-
GUS condition today. 1t is thought his
skull is fractured
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23

president of the Y. NJ. C. A, and chief
mover in its formation, has been knighted
in connection with the jubilee of the as
sociation which was founded in the year
1914
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
American CommonweaIth Author

James Bryce will succeed Mr.. Mundella
as president of the board of trade, and
Baron Tweedmouth will succeed Mr..
Bryce as chancellor of the duchy of
Lancaster
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Doesn't MAKE Him Greater.

LONDON, May 23.-Isaac Pitman, the
originator of the system of shorthand
which bears his name, has been
knighted-
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linens fee RENE a e
arr name i O n n 10 ding il an ter 5inch CHI oadng lies In
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S32 calls up the PeerlessI
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D. Holmes. druggist, 7s1 Kansas ave-
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-06

Gubernr 1orial campaign of last spring he did yeoman service in behalf of his friend, as aspirant for Gubernatorial hon. ors. .Old age ne'er cools the Douglass blood" and his services were as zealous as before. He was as eloquent as Alex ander White, whose matchless tribute to the Bonnie Blue Flag will never be for gotten-''if ever l prove false to thee may my right hand forget its cunning, my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, and may the live thunder rive me where I stand!'' But alasl like Alex White, be forgot his pas- sionate words, and went over to the enemy. Had we been told that the sun would be- come glow worm, that Mars would pale it's splendid fires, that the north star would be found in the constellation of the southern cross, we might have believed it, but had we been told that Col. A. K. Shepard would in few short weeks become Re- publican We would have exclaimed, .'Never, never, neverl" Yet it seems too true! How has the mighty fallenl By one rash act he has blasted the record of a long and glorious political life. Bent with the burden of many years we'll spent he is about to pull down the temple of his good deeds and lie down helpless amid the ruins. As Republican he may support MT. AL drich; as Democrat he cannot.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-06
Long Straight Railroad Runs.

The greatest stretch of perfectly straight railway traok--more scientifically termed "tangent''-in North America is to be found on the new '&oo" line of the Ca nadian Pacific railroad, beginning at 8 point few miles from Pasqua. It con- tinues for 70 miles aud altogether in Ca nadian territory The next longest is west of St. Thomas on the Michigan Gen. tral. which is about 67 miles. The Ion. gest stretch of tangent in the world is to be found in the Argentine Republic and con- tinues for 250 miles. It completely eclipses the model line of the czar of Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow, which-taking @ rule and placing it on map-he order ed to be built perfectly straight. On the survey being made 1t was found that lakes. hills and rivers would not admit of 1t, and though as straight as possible it is any thing but perfect tangent.-New York Journal
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-06
IS HIS CONSCIENCE EAsYg
Editor Age Herald:


 BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 4.-The question which I propound.d through the columns of your widely read paper, to be answered by such tof the public) as only vote the Democratic ticket, as 10 whether vote for MT. T. H. Aldrich made the voter Republican has been unanswered since Sunday last. It is fair to infer from this silence that it does not. This is a novel and interesting experience in the South. and ought to be published by you to show the rest of the State. as well as outside people, that the industrial interests of this district play a far more important part in the estimation of it's citizens than mere party loy- atty. Daylight is breaking, MT. Editor. The AaE- HERALD not being a voter, of course it could not answer. THOMAS DOUBTFUL.
 The AGE HERALD speaks for the public, and so completely answered your first question as to feel reasonably sure that for further light you would propound the other three. If "Thomas Dou ubtful'' did sincerely feel more interest in the indus- trial interest of this district than mere party loyalty he would not seek alliance with the party of Reed and Mckinley, but continue as private voter in the ranks of tbat party which for so many years has demonstrated it's friendship toward his people and the industrial interests of all classes. Mir. Doubtful need not lay the hattering unction to his soul and ease his conscience with the idea that the silence of the public on the question he propounded means that he can escape popular censure for his proposed political degeneracy Who is not for us is against us.