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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

AN Oklahoma paper wants to know
what made the good times of 1884 So
and7. The answer is easy. When
President Cleveland went into office the
first time he found the treasury loaded
up with an immense surplus. He at
once inaugurated policy which forced
this accumulation into circulation. He
began buying up bonds of the United
States with it at such advantageous fig
ures to the bondholders that they parted
with their holdings for the cash. Having
exchanged their bonds for currency they
very naturally sought investments for
the currency so obtained. One of the
most promising channels at that time ap-
peared to be loans on western mortgages
and investments in western railroads,
and so the money came west The same
results followed which always follow an
expansion of the amount of money in
circulation. Prices Of everything went
up, prices of land, the basis of all wealth,
most of all When a mans neighbors
certified to a $4,000 valuation on piece
of property which is not now worth
$1,000, there was nothing wrong or IN
fair about it. It was worth at that time
all they said it was, because it would
bring it in the market. It comes with
bad grace from eastern capitalists now
to say that they were deceived and swim
died. They largely brought the collapse
in values on themselves when they as
sisted in the repeal of the Bland law, and
finally in the complete overthrow of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

been driving him succeeded in getting
out before he started. No damage was
done.
Old Uncle Redmond, after whom Red
mondville was named, is back from Ok
lahoma. He walked the entire distance.
When he left here he was getting a
dollar a day and his board; now he is in
hard way to get something to eat. He
says Oklahoma is burnt up for this year.
Remington bicycle agency at S37 Kan
sas ave. Wheels to rent.
F. II. Mann, 905 Kansas avenue, pho
tographer First class work and lowest
prices my motto. Give me a trial and be
convinced
The Magnet Restaurant and Short
Order house. A. ]. Proudfit, $40 n. Kan.
Ave. Wholesale fruits and confectionery.
Lukens Bros. High grade Ariel cycles,
the admiration of everybody. Steele s.
Walkers Goshen wheels. Buggies and
road wagons. Harness and Implements
For first class dental work go to Lyon
g. Reynolds. 832 Kansas avenue. rooms
1873. Our best set teeth So. Painless
extracting for one month 25 cents.
The union barber shops of this city
hung up a new schedule of prices to-
day. There are three changes. A sea
foam now costs 10 cents; shampooing
ladies' hair costs 90 cents, and for
shave where the barber has to leave the
shop 90 cents is charged.
The Salvation Army and some touQhs
gave little farce in the hall after the
meeting Saturday evening, entitled"Two
Blows Struck, or Which Licked?" One
of the Salvationists, Jim Langley, who
carried the flag for the Topeka division
of Coxey's army, took exception to re :
mark made by Dan Hewitt and landed
heavily on Hewitt's face by way
of expressing himself The latter retail
ated by planting a stiff one on Langley's
chin. at this stage honors were easy.
Then both tented and some women
standing near tainted also. They then
adjourned to the street and yelled,
"Police." When Officer McElroy ar
rived Hewitt was gone and no arrest
were made. A large crowd was attract
ed by the free exhibition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

How completely the gold standard
is fastened upon the country has re-
ceived a fresh illustration in a recent
decision of the supreme court of New
Jersey. A man named Wood got on
street car and rendered a So bill in pay
ment of his fare. The conductor couldn't
change it and put him off. He sued the
company for $500 damages. The ruling
of the court was that Wood must prove
that the So bill was legal tender money;
that the company would not be COM
PEELED to accept bank note that was a
promissory note and that a silver GER
tificate is not legal tender money. If
this decision should be sustained by the
courts of last resort, what does it mean?
It means that if a man goes to pay a
debt and his creditor demands gold, the
debtor must get the gold or lose his
property. With not enough available
gold to pay ten per cent of the indebted
ness of the country, the situation is not
an encouraging one for the people, most
of whom are in debt And yet there are
men in this same debtor class who op-
pose an enlargement of tue amount of
legal tender money, or any increase in
the money of final redemption, and
pirate of Sound money" Verify, none
are SO blind as they who will not see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
A TOPEKA PUZZLE.
w. E. Battey Has Invented - Scientific One
Called "Out of Sight,"

Jeweller W. E. Battey of Topeka has
invented puzzle which he thinks will
throw the famous s'fifteen puzzle" into
the shade. He calls it the "Out of Sight"
puzzle.
It is built strictly on scientific princi-
pies and deals with the two great forces
of nature-centripetal and centrifugal.
1t is very simple in construction, aud
consists of a square solid block of wood
with wooden shaft through the center
of it. The idea is to get the shaft out
without damaging the article. It is very
easily done when you know how.
Lawyer E A Wagner has purchased
a half interest in the invention and it
will be patented and the toy put on sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
A Successful
Entertainment

Is helped in no small degree by pro-
gramme handsomely printed on good
paper by an artistic printer. If the per-
Torrance is to be repeated next year the
programme will be your best advertise
ment, as it will be kept by many of the
audience who would hate to throw it
away. Let US get one up for you when
you need it and you will see the point
We can also print your cards of ad-
mission so attractively that they will be
irresistible.
Adams Brothers,
Printers and CtationerS,
III Kansas Avenue,
Either Phone Ao4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
TO MARRY A CHICAGO MAN.
An Ell Dorado Young Lady's Romance Be-
gins in St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, April 20.-Miss Emma Jean
ne Pierce, the pretty young cashier at
the Planters hotel, resigned some days
ago and went to her home in Ell Dorado.
Kan. Her many friends in the city were
surprised to receive cards announcing
her marriage to James F. Brady of Chi
cago.
Mr.. Brady made Miss Pierce's acquaint-
ance while visiting the hotel. He is a
prominent Chicago broker. The wed
ding will take place at Miss Pierce's
home today.
A movement is on foot amongst her
friends at the hotel to present her with a
handsome silver wedding gift.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

AS an illustration of the effect of de-
mand and supply on a money metal it is
notable that as soon as it was suspected
that the Chinese indemnity would be
paid in silver, the price of bullion began
to advance. 1t has now reached figure
about IS points in advance of the lowest
price recorded. Just here it is not in
appropriate to call attention to another
fact and that is that the price of wheat
and cotton has also advanced right along
with silver. Let it be known that there
is a probability of reopening our mints
to silver coinage and there would be a
much greater advance in all these com
modities,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
The shakers VIII BE Here This
Weak

Owing to the request of so many citi-
zens of Topeka who have not had
chance to see the Shaker Doctor, he will
stay here all this week with his star COM
pany of comedians There will be
another big free show tonight at the
Crawford, and the Doctor can be seen at
the Copeland hotel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
Kansas Patents.

Patents granted to citizens of Kansas
for the week ending April %, 1895. re-
ported through the office of ]. F. Beale.
solicitor of patents, 606 F street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.:
Vim. H. Edwards, BelIeviIle, danger
signals for railways; George II. Hume,
Osawatomie, car coupling; c. P. John
son. Thurman, spark arrester and con-
ductor; H. N. Patterson, Wichita, earth
auger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
COLIMA SPlTS FIRE.
Lava and Ashes Flying Out and the Ps
nIe arc EIaefnR.

pie arc EIeeIng.
GUADALAJARA, Mex, April 29.-The
Colima volcano is again in q state of &C.
tive eruption and the Inhabitants of the
valley at the base of the mountain have
been forced to abandon their homes and
fee for their lives.
The molten lava and ashes have de-
stroyed their crops and much valuable
property in that section. The fire which
issues from the crater presents magnif-
icant sight at night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
Rice in Kansas.

NEWTON, Kan, April 29.-F. s. Stein
kirchner, near this city, will experiment
on rice raising this season. He has re-
ceived seed from Louisiana and will irri-
gate it to determine whether the rice will
grow in this climate or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
MIKADO HAS A CHILL.

And the Date Of the Departure of Count
Ito Not Set.
YoKoHoMA, April 29.-The Mikado is
suffering from a chill The date of the
departure of Count Ito, the president of
the Japanese council of ministers, for
Che Foo, in order to ratify the treaty of
peace arrived at between China and
Japan, has not yet been determined
uDOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

ACCORDING to the arrangement made
between President Cleveland and the
members of the bond syndicate at the
time he made them a present of $1,000
600 of the peoples money, another bond
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
EmpIeyment at a SALARY.

Teachers, students and others seeking
permanent employment or for the sum-
mer should read II. w. Nixon's agents
wanted notice in another column.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 10
cents week to any part Of Topeka or
suburbs, or at the same price in any
Kansas town where this paper has a car
Fier system.
By mail. three months ........$ 80
By mail, one year ............ 500
Weekly Edition, per year $500. so
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29

sunday no issue.
The total number of copies printed in the
three months named above, 739669. divided by
n, the number of issues, shows the average to
be 9.6O6. This is a correct report of the issues
of the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL for
the three months as stated
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
THE SUNDAY CALL.

The special articles in THE SUNDAY CALL
of tomorrow will deal with matters of in
dustrial Importance as well as with lighter
matters of literature and romance. Among
the more notable contributions will be "a
Worlds Fair for Wine" by Paul Oeker !;
"Irrigation in Arizona" by Leonard Fow-
Ter, and "El Dorado" by Joaquin Miller.
All of these, besides being of particular
value to those specially interested in them,
will be found both entertaining and in
structive by the general mass of readers.
The serious condition of affairs in Turkey
and Armenia renders timely an article on
the Patriarch OF Armenia," by Brans-
combe Ashley, and not less so is an ac-
count by A. l.. Mcdonald of the empire of
the great valley of the Orinoco, of which
Great Britain is now trying to obtain pos
session by wrestling from Venezuela the
control of the mouth of that river under
the pretense of dispute over boundary
lines.
"An Experience of a Night of Bur-
glaries," by W. c. Morrow, will please all
classes of readers, and the regular depart
ments of the paper, including "Society
Events Books and Bookmakers, ~
"Childhood's Realm Fashion Notes" !"
etc.. will be found as usual full of matters
of current interest on the wide variety of
topics embraced under those heads.
The CALL can be generally obtained
wherever newspapers are sold, but as there
is always largely increased demand for
the Sunday paper those who wish to make
sure of getting it should leave orders to-
av
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14

not be the duty OF the men of genius to make
one? Even if we had no political unity, they
could make the nation aunt by creating q
common literature and common art For
long time the national literature OF Germany
was the nation itself. the only symbol OF Its
union-but it was real, vital, German ntera-
tture, and not an imitation OF French literary
models. The literature and art OF every natlon
must have its roots deep down in the lie ana
thoughts of its own people. Ii 1t is only
copy OF some other nations life and tnougnt,
the world will soon leave the copy LOT the
original.
Our American literature does represent
American life and thought. Bret Harte ana
Joaquin Miller sing of life along the Pacihc
coast, James Whitcomb Riley portrays the
homely life of Hoosierdom, Hamlin Garland
gives us sketches of the Mississippi Valley,
George w. Cable makes pictures of the South,
Charles Egbert Craddoek paints the mountains
of Tennessee, Mary E. wilkins tells OF New
England villages and dozens of others make
us acquainted with the life of ordinary people
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But the PEN
picture has told the world more OF America
than has the brush picture.
Why need one paint Alpine scenery wnen
one has the Rockies, why the Lake OF Como
when one has Lake George, why the harbor or
Colstantinople when one has the magnificent
harbor of New York, why the rush huts OF
Africa when one has the adobe houses OF New
Mexico, why the stubble of French harvest
field when one has the billowy sea of Dakota
corn field, why Breton peasant girls when there
are Maud Mullers a-plenty at home ?-Harr1ett
c. Connor, in the New Bohemian.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
VIRTUOUS SUPERVISORS.

The examination of certain Supervisors
by the Grand Jury on Thursday was not
without profit. One Supervisor who wants
to stop pool-selling at the racetracks con-
fessed to having lost $50, 600 on the races
he has been a heavy loser at the open
poker games downtown and he is anxious
TO suppress them. Light seems to be
dawning. Other members of the Solid
Eight professed an adherence of immoral
practices, but declined TO say whether
they would support or oppose the anti
poolroom ordinance whose adoption has
been urged by the Grand Jury.
The danger of such unwillingness is that
it is capable of unpleasant analysis. For
instance, it might be assumed by an un-
friendly critic that it was the intention to
vote against the ordinance, and that there
was natural hesitation in informing the
Grand Jury'to that effect, seeing that the
ordinance had emanated from that body.
Or the refusal might be construed as a
shrewd measure to gain time in the hope
that the rkeney to secure the passage of
the ordinance would in time relax. Or it
might be guessed that the threat to include
the raeetracks in the ordinance would
finally bring the track managers to their
senses and compel them to join forces with
the downtown poolrooms in opposing the
ordinance and perhaps contributing
money, as the poolrooms are supposed to
be doing.
1t is singular tn at all the members of the
Solid Eight who were examined by the
Grand Jury declined to say what they pro-
pose to do with the famous ordinance. 1t
is equally singular that they all agreed in
suggesting that every manner of vice
should be extirpated and that in their
enumeration of evils they agreed perfectly
on list of vices. A suspicious person
might suggest collusion or an attempt to
cloud the main proposition with a number
of others, and the idea might arise that
this whole course is taken in the interest
of the downtown poolrooms. 1t is fact
that while these gentlemen must have
known of the evils which are now so
grievously agitating them they never sug-
gested their suppression until the Grand
Jury began to move against the poolrooms.
The entire situation is interesting, in
that it lacks not a single element to con-
firm the suspicious which prevail through
out the City. The Solid Eight, so far as
public opinion is concerned, could not
possibly make their standing before the
community a whit worse if they confessed
to the charges that are freely made. But
the presence OF penitentiaries in the State
modifies the case. 1t is conceivable that
there are those who care nothing for pub
lie opinion, but who have a hearty dread
Of serving term in the State prison.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
A SENSE OF HONOR.

In organizing themselves into a power
full body bound in honor by the most
stringent and far-reaching provisions to
suppress cheating at the examinations, the
students of Stanford University have es-
tablished standard of integrity and pride
that should prove gratifying to every in
telligent resident of the State. An excep-
tionally wise provision of the plan adopted
is that while the names of informants shall
not be kept secret by the committee taking
charge of complaints. the informant, if he
proves and shows that he was actuated
solely by honorable motives, shall be
treated with special distinction as a reward
for his courage and fidelity.
The effects of such course viii be ben-
efcent in many ways. With regard to
the students themselves it will enforce ab-
solute fairness among themselves SO that
incompetent, trifiing or dishonest students
may not enjoy the rewards which the earn
est and faithful ones deserve. With re-
gard to the university it will raise the
standard of the institution, as it is guar
anty against the graduation of students
whose after course would be a reproach
and damage to the reputation of the insti-
tutloh. oesiues al thiS ~ Will ihSuioato
among the students sense OF response
bility and pride that will have a useful eff
feet on their lives. Not to check dishonesty
is to encourage it and to render it easy is
to make it prevalent and degrading.
So far as We are informed this action by
the Stanford students is far in advance of
similar movements III other great institu-
tons OF learning. 1t was many years ago
that the plan of putting students on their
honor was adopted by the authorities of
the universities, but the fallacy of the idea
is easily seen when we reflect that stu
dent who is so dishonest as to cheat will
find no difficulty in lying. Out OF this
grew the movement at Princeton, in which
the students undertook to regulate the
matter among themselves. The weakness
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
TWO RAILROAD BILLS.

The railroad fight has begun early in
Congress. Two bills, Numerically oppo-
site in purpose, have been introduced in
the Senate. That the Senate should have
been selected as the ground for the skir-
mish looks peculiar, for 1t has been as
sumed that while the House will probably
pass funding measure, it will likely be
killed in the Senate. As, however, Sena-
tor Thurston had already announced his
intention to introduce a bill compelling the
railroads to pay their debts, he probably
thus forced Mr.. Huntington to meet the
issue on the more dangerous ground.
Hence Senator Frye of Maine has intro
duced a bill which is even more favorable
to the railroads than was the Reilly bill.
The Frye bill is refunding measure,
and provides for extending the debt 100
years, at an average rate of interest of 2
per cent, with details providing for the
gradual extinction of the debt.
The full text of Senator Thurston's bill
has not been received, but in the shape in
which the condensation of it has been tele-
graphed it appears to have some weak and
incoherent features. Still it would not be
fair under the circumstances to criticise
the bill seriously at this time.
AS reported it seems to be dangerously
elastic and indefinite proposition. No
provision appears for collecting the re-
mainder of the debt above the amount
which may be- bid for the Governments
interest; that is to say, the bill seems to
contemplate making the Governments 8
creditors present of the difference be-
tween their debt and the price at which
the Governments interest may be sold.
Again, it is difficult to see how the Gov
ernment's five directors for which it pro-
vides exert anything more than a slight
moral influence in the board of fifteen or
more directors in the way of employing
the railroads to the advantage of the
country.
The one proposition to be insisted is that
the debt of the roads to the Government is
an honest one and should be honestly paid
The law for the collection of debts should
be applied in this case exactly as it would
against the property of ordinary citizens.
The mortgage should be foreclosed if the
debt is not paid on time, and if the pro-
ceeds are not sufficient to liquidate the in
debtedness deficiency Judgment should
be obtained against the debtors. Senators
Thurston and Frye have evidently mis-
taken the duties the people expect of them.
They are trying to devise way by which
the debt can be evaded, whereas they were
sent to Washington to compel its payment.
There is no use making legal complexity
OF so simple a subject. Congress should
demand the enforcement of law exactly as
it is applied in business propositions be-
tween man and man the world over
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
PUSH THE FIGHT.

The publication in THE CALL of scenes
in the downtown poolrooms can hardly
have failed to make evident to everybody
the infamy of those places. Boys scarcely
bevond the age of childhood are there en-
ticed to gamble and in many instances
even young women are induced to enter
upon uhe'same evil courses.
To nearly all of these; youthful people
poolroom gambling is almost equivalent
to direct incentive to dishonesty and
crime. The poolrooms therefore are Of
fenses of the gravest nature, and THE
CALL has turned its searchlight upon them
in order that the public might see and
know the evil that is being done day after
day in this City of homes and churches
and law.
The evil being made known, the next
step is to arouse the popular action neces-
sary to suppress it. As the law stands the
police seem to be powerless. The law
must be made adequate to suppress the
iniquity. We call upon the press of the
City. the leaders of public opinion and
the churches to aid in urging the immedi-
ate passage of an anti-poolroom ordinance
by the Supervisors.
The miserable pretense of CHASING Ingle-
side Park with the downtown gambling
should not be permitted to delude single
intelligent man. Nor should it be allowed
to afford the Supervisors a chance to evade
the responsibility of either closing the pool
rooms or standing before the people as the
avowed supporters OF the corrupters of
youth.
The clergy of the City have repeatedly
called upon the press for aid in works of
charity and moral reform, and have never
found that aid withheld by THE CALL. In
the same spirit we now call upon the pas
tors Of the churches to assist in arousing
the better element of the people to a fixed
resolve to suppress this lnfamy which
threatens to corrupt the honor and moral
ity of every young man who is exposed to
its insidious temptations.
There are other evils in the City, of
course. but this is the one now exposed to
the full blaze of the searchlight of truth.
Let the attack be made vigorously, while
the villainy OF it is clear to the gaze of all.
A resolute public opinion cannot be
ignored even by the Solid Eight The
church should unite with the press in this
fight. II it does the suppression of the
infamy cannot be far off and our boys will
once more be able to walk the street with
out being exposed to the snares and pit
falls which now entice them in so many of
the business quarters OF the City.